Practice areas

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) looks likely to try to adopt a more straightforward approach and might relax the controversial 'separate business' rule. | 12yrs

Senior staff in Credit Suisse have been at odds with each other over their approach to the US Department of Justice investigation. | 12yrs

A proposal for a special dress code for lawyers in court is to be published by the Justice Ministry in Jeddah within the next two weeks. | 12yrs

Edward Snowden, famous for leaking documents from the National Security Agency, has hired one of the most famous names in the law of spying to negotiate on his behalf with the US government. | 12yrs

Businessman Victor Dahdeleh has won a US court victory in a series of cases which have proved embarrassing for Akin Gump. | 12yrs

Freshfields has relocated its global head of arbitration from Hong Kong to Singapore in a move to increase its work in the growing Singapore market. | 12yrs

Organisations are becoming more likely to experiment with 'relatively undeveloped legal and judicial systems' in emerging markets, according to Allen & Overy. | 12yrs

Leading securities lawyer Joe Groia and the Law Society of Upper Canada are pitted against each other this week in the Ontario Divisional Court over claims that he should have a two-month suspension. | 12yrs

Black lawyers make up just 37 per cent of South African lawyers, a statistic which is reflected in the largely white legal teams participating in the Oscar Pistorius trial. | 12yrs

Appleby, the offshore firm, has become the first offshore law practice to obtain a licence to offer offshore legal services in China. | 12yrs

Ethics experts are expecting that US state bar associations will introduce many more rules on the use of social media after the American Bar Association gave permission to court lawyers to review 'a juror's internet presence'. | 12yrs

Businesses using the virtual currency Bitcoin have become so concerned by the growth in regulatory steps that they fear falling foul of them more than losing the currency by theft. | 12yrs

Businesses in the US are spending 'more money on legal fees to fight high-stakes litigation', according to a report in the Houston Chronicle. | 12yrs

Bank of America has been asked to pay US$13b to settle allegations relating to the sale of mortgage bonds. | 12yrs

Carey Olsen has doubled its manpower in the tax haven of the British Virgin Islands [BVI] with the appointment of three extra lawyers. | 12yrs

A fast-growing law firm is planning to offer 'seamless advice' through the establishment of a close relationship with an accountancy practice. | 12yrs

Sacha Woodward-Hill, Formula 1's chief legal officer, is expected to act as the right arm of Bernie Ecclestone, the chief executive, when his German corruption trial starts this week. | 12yrs

Corporate counsel are seeing a shift in thinking from law firms on how they charge for litigation as the hourly rate declines in popularity across the board. | 12yrs

The numbers of unrepresented parties in cases involving children have risen from 38 per cent to 52 per cent over 2013, largely as a result of Legal Aid cuts. | 12yrs