Practice areas

The Virginia Supreme Court has held that a lawyer's blog can be subject to the advertising clauses in professional conduct rules. | 12yrs

A large firm of Chinese money managers, the China Jiantou Trust, has sent 23 executives to London to be trained in the legal and regulatory environment as well as other financial issues. | 12yrs

A New York-San Francisco alliance of law firms could establish a new 1,700-lawyer firm which would take the number nine slot in the rankings. | 12yrs

A leading consultant has warned international law firms to take great care with their local relationships after Clifford Chance ran into trouble with regulators in Singapore. | 12yrs

Claims of sexual harrassment, reported in 2011, at Case Law School, have led to a lawsuit and divisions among the staff. | 12yrs

A report from Mallesons Stephen Jaques makes a case for regulating the financiers of litigation in Australia, and claims that such players often take half the amount of settlements made as their fees. | 12yrs

Over half (53%) of in-house lawyers who have not introduced information governance (IG) policies and solutions attribute the failure to 'lack of co-ordination' with colleagues in different departments. | 12yrs

A collection of 28 law firms has jointly filed an objection to attempts from the estate of failed US firm Dewey & LeBoeuf to be compensated for work which was passed to them as the practice went under. | 12yrs

Jones Day, Baker & McKenzie, Squire Saunders and Sidley Austin are the big winners in the Chinese Ministry of Commerce's first panel of law firms. | 12yrs

Linklaters is taking on two lawyers from Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier and another from Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton to make up the new team. | 12yrs

Lawyers who are specialising in managing data believe that organisations need to set up multi-disciplinary management groups to push the issues along. | 12yrs

GlaxoSmithKline has seen its sales decline 61 per cent in China in the three months since it hit major regulatory problems in the People's Republic. | 12yrs

Data privacy actions for inadvertent violations are on the increase in the US, according to the Institute for Legal Reform. | 12yrs

Fees charged by Proskauer Rose LLP and Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP have been criticised for being excessive and are the subject of a New York bankruptcy court. | 12yrs

The new Lord Chief Justice has recommended using Skype and lawyers outside London in order to get cheaper access to justice. | 12yrs

The Supreme Court of the state of Victoria is to engage a former judge to blog on the court's activities, as a way of making up for a reducing number of court reporters. | 12yrs

Cisco general counsel Mark Chandler has vowed to continue the fight against patent trolls following a court ruling. | 12yrs

Three new partners are being recruited to White & Case's South African team as part of the law firm's overall Africa strategy. | 12yrs

Middle class South Africans, as well as the poor, are unable to take part in litigation because the legal fees are too high, according to Deputy Justice Minister John Jeffery. | 12yrs