A mix of Anglo-US global law firms and two local players has bagged seats on the inaugural legal panel for the company building a network of rail projects in the Persian Gulf state of Qatar. | 14yrs
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Arne Wittig is set to leave his chief legal officer role at Deutsche Bank to become general counsel at German steel and industrial conglomerate ThyssenKrupp. | 14yrs
Virginia-headquartered Freddie Mac - the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation - announced that William McDavid will become its executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary. | 14yrs
A Manhattan bankruptcy court has given approval to several professional firms hoping to advise the estate of now defunct New York law firm Dewey & LeBouef, while only legal practice Proskauer Rose has been denied. | 14yrs
Global corporate giants are still not sufficiently open regarding anti-corruption measures, according to a hard-hitting report released today. | 14yrs
A British judge has deemed Apple's popular iPad device 'too cool' to be confused with a rival model from South Korean manufacturer Samsung | 14yrs
One-time Hollywood love birds, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, have quickly reached an agreement in their divorce, represented by two of New York's leading matrimonial law firms. | 14yrs
One of the world's biggest law firms is to walk a conflicts tightrope in the interbank interest rate rigging scandal currently rampaging through the British banking sector, it emerged yesterday. | 14yrs
Benelux full-service law firm Stibbe - a former alliance partner of London-based global practice Herbert Smith - is to launch a Hong Kong office to assist Chinese clients with European investments. | 14yrs
Global general counsel answer our big question | 14yrs
Leading law firm partners answer the big questions | 14yrs
A Lorain Municipal Court Judge in Ohio has held a local man in contempt because his trousers were riding so low that his underwear was exposed. | 14yrs
The Georgia Supreme Court has ruled that a Savannah golf club and homeowners' association will not be held liable for the death of an elderly woman, whose family claims she was killed by an alligator. | 14yrs
Mississippi woman accused of stealing after taking stray home | 14yrs
Flo Rida fined for pretending not to have received court papers. | 14yrs
Californian lawyer Leonard Julius Sawyer has found himself in a spot of bother after what Forbes writer Bill Singer described as 'the flight from and to hell'. | 14yrs
The ABA Journal considers the issue of recruiters preferring elite law schools. | 14yrs
Paul Chambers' lawyer argues informal social media provides context for his Twitter joke | 14yrs
Nandii Reywal at the Legally India blog has come up with a novel way of describing why many leave their supposed 'dream' jobs in the legal profession by using the medium of Beatles' songs. | 14yrs
Law Actually's self-anointed legal blogger extraordinaire 'The Michael' has commented on the recent revelation by the BBC that people have become 'screen slaves' and are often working while commuting or after they get home. | 14yrs