Practice areas

E T Rajavel and his wife Mohana have been arrested by police in Kerala and accused of using contract killers to murder a female client who had consulted Mr Rajavel on property issues in 2011. | 12yrs

The world's tenth largest law firm, CMS Cameron McKenna, has extended its reach in Scotland by acquiring Edinburgh- and Glasgow-based Dundas & Wilson. | 12yrs

Fifteen Chinese lawyers have begun a hunger strike in protest at not being able to meet with a Christian pastor who has been arrested and detained on charges of 'obstructing official business'. | 12yrs

Three Chinese law firms are on course to square up to each other in a Beijing court after one is accused of besmirching the reputation of the others. | 12yrs

Six months after it announced its intention to go to Australia, Chicago-based law firm has opened up in Sydney and Melbourne. | 12yrs

The Criminal Law Association and Ontario Legal Aid have combined forces to call for Legal Aid changes from both the federal and local governments. | 12yrs

The Indian state of West Bengal is braced to see a fall in tax revenue this year after Tata Steel, Cadbury and other multinationals challenged one of its tax laws. | 12yrs

Boies, Schiller & Flexer looks likely to win the 2013 bonus league through bonus payments which will average US85,000 and hit $300,000 for some associates. | 12yrs

Hogan Lovells is shifting back to a system of having one chief executive, for the first time since its transatlantic merger in 2010. | 12yrs

A £40m bribery case has collapsed six weeks into the trial after two lawyers from US law firm Akin Gump refused to testify. | 12yrs

Tokyo-based Peter Godwin has been named as the new head of disputes in Asia by Herbert Smith Freehills. | 12yrs

Well over four in ten private client lawyers are being asked for advice on whether millionaire clients should be shifting the geographical location of their investments. | 12yrs

Although Apple may have come to a settlement with Samsung on patent infringement in the US, its US$60 legal bill still has to be paid. | 12yrs

DLA Piper is top of The Lawyer's Global Litigation Top 50 rankings, earning US$1.09 in fees. | 12yrs

New York lawyers have begun discussing the ethical boundaries of online marketing in the wake of the Metro-North train derailment this month in which four people died. | 12yrs

The Chief Justice of South Africa has said that the Legal Practice Bill might end up being challenged in court. | 12yrs

Beau Deleuil, global chief of disputes, is joining the Sydney office of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan. | 12yrs

A record €1.7b in fines from the European Commission, the EU's top competition authority, has been handed out to some European banks. | 12yrs

The lawyers have kept away from the courts as part of a three-day protest over the physical allocation of criminal court cases in Surat. | 12yrs