Latest legal news

A Birmingham general practice law firm is leading a consortium competing for a licence to broadcast regular television programmes in the city. | 14yrs

Tributes were paid earlier this week to two leading Gibraltar lawyers who died recently, including one of the British colony's political elder statesmen. | 14yrs

The longest running legal dispute in English history - a battle between Kuwait Airways Corporation (KAC) and Iraqi Airways (IAC) - is set to rumble on after an attempted agreement stalled within the last few days. | 14yrs

America's largest full service consumer firm -- Jacoby & Meyers -- has merged with Macey Bankruptcy Law, the nation's largest consumer bankruptcy practice, in what has been called the most significant merger for consumer law in US history. | 14yrs

Lawyers in India threw a two-day strike this week, disrupting judicial activities at the high court as well as several lower courts, as they protested against proposed reforms to legal education in the country. | 14yrs

The body representing lawyers in Swaziland is seeking a court order to block the country's parliament from launching a probe into the affairs of its members and a study of self-regulation in the legal profession. | 14yrs

London-based law firm Trowers & Hamlins is to open a representative office in Malaysia -- a landmark move marking the gradual liberalisation of practice restrictions in the country. | 14yrs

International law practice Norton Rose is set to advise former Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond in relation to the Libor rate-fixing scandal. | 14yrs

London-based law firm Pinsent Masons is set to make its first move into continental Europe with an office opening in Germany later this month. | 14yrs

Former partners of bankrupt New York law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf are being asked to pay the estate between $25,000 and $3 million each to build a proposed 'settlement plan' totalling $103.6 million. | 14yrs

A leading criminal law judge is to take a top role with Britain's white-collar crime busters as the Serious Fraud Office faces the most profound shake-up in its 25-year history. | 14yrs

England's Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal is 'not fit for purpose' and 'falls far behind the quality and consistency of other regulatory tribunals', a leading ethnic minority lawyers' group claimed this week. | 14yrs

Recession-related litigation is rocketing, with the number of contract claims in the UK's High Court increasing by nearly 50 per cent last year, recently released government figures show. | 14yrs

A leading British law school is to risk the wrath of French traditionalists by launching an English language post-graduate course in Paris. | 14yrs

Survey exposes suspicions of rampant workplace wrongdoing in UK and US sectors | 14yrs

A former lawyer has been arrested in Toronto after allegedly pocketing more than $2 million from the sale of a retirement home. | 14yrs

London head-quartered global law firm Clyde & Co has announced today that it is to open an office in Tripoli, the firm's fifth in the Middle East and North Africa region. | 14yrs

Clifford Chance is at the front of the London magic circle law firm pack as the leading firms joust for slices of UK mergers & acquisitions pie, according to figures released this week. | 14yrs

Patent assertions by non-practising entities - so called trolls - are costing global companies some $29 billion annually, with as much as a third of that bill being picked up by small and medium sized businesses. | 14yrs