Latest legal news

Private equity companies were eyeing up English law practices even before the legislation allowing them to buy-in hit the statute books. Jonathan Ames talks to a prominent business angel boss who's struck early | 14yrs

Details of the Libor scandal make most people's heads spin - but one thing is assumed: bankers as a breed are borderline crooks. Stephen Gilchrist looks at whether any will do time for massaging interest rates | 14yrs

Wealthy Russian individuals and businesses have been rushing to London's commercial court to do battle, but now there is a backlash in Moscow. Is this the beginning of the end? David Allen and Philippa Charles assess the evidence | 14yrs

'Merchant banker' has a rather fruity meaning in modern Cockney rhyming slang - for those unfamiliar with contemporary English argot, a brief visit to any of the major internet search engines should assist. | 14yrs

Switzerland is an arbitration destination of choice for many, regularly modernizing its arbitration framework to remain so. | 14yrs

San Francisco-based law firm Morrison & Foerster has reshuffled its senior leadership, with long-time bankruptcy partner Larren Nashelsky taking over the top job. | 14yrs

A mentoring programme aimed at women solicitors has launched in New South Wales. | 14yrs

Leading Pakistani lawyers are campaigning to boost human rights in Sindh province by launching a group to bolster the legal system. | 14yrs

Likely Republican US presidential nominee Mitt Romney has bagged former Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld litigation associate Beth Myers to conduct his search for a running mate. | 14yrs

London magic circle firm Linklaters is considering a joint venture in South Africa, less than two months after cementing an exclusive link-up in Australia with Allens. | 14yrs

A British judge has told Californian electronics giant Apple that it must advertise that rival company Samsung did not copy its iPad tablet device. | 14yrs

The London office of US firm Mayer Brown has offered its trainees £10,000 to defer their contracts for a year. Only three of the 47 trainees across four intakes agreed to defer, with the remaining 44 beginning their contracts as normal. | 14yrs

Lynette Rowe -- who was born without arms and legs -- has been offered more than AU$1 million by multi-national corporation Diageo as compensation for the effects of thalidomide. | 14yrs

Singapore's stock exchange is firming up its procedures for companies aiming to list on its main market, following a wave of accounting scandals involving small, listed Chinese firms. | 14yrs

A group of former UK partners from bankrupt New York-based law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf are set to rebuff a settlement plan proposed by the firm's wind-down committee last week. | 14yrs

A New Zealand district court judge has stepped down from the extradition case of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom after jokingly referring to the US as 'the enemy'. | 14yrs

Football's governing body FIFA has appointed Michael Garcia - a partner at Chicago-based firm Kirkland & Ellis and a former US government attorney - as lead prosecutor to investigate allegations of corruption at the organisation. | 14yrs

Major law firms are moving into smaller offices and utilising space in more flexible ways to cut costs, as the harsh economic environment sounds the death knell for traditional ostentatious, wood-panelled walls and large leather chairs. | 14yrs

Leading New York lawyers will soon launch an investigation into the current grim employment market afflicting law graduates in the US. | 14yrs