A meeting of the Lahore Bar Association to discuss security in the lower courts ended without a decision and after a scuffle broke out between two groups of lawyers. | 12yrs
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The vice president of the Hong Kong Court of Appeal, Mr Justice Frank Stock, has attacked lawyers for making 'wholly unwarranted allegations of incompetence' against each other. | 12yrs
The Home Office is considering a US-style plan through which individuals could receive large sums for blowing the whistle on economic crime. | 12yrs
Clifford Chance private equity partner Tom Evans is following the firm's former global head of private equity, David Walker, to join Latham & Watkins. | 13yrs
Overseas Shipholding Group, one of the world's largest shippers, is planning to sue its 'former external counsel' over advice that forced it restate a decade of financial results. | 13yrs
An anti-piracy set of classes is to be piloted in Californian schools, reaching children as young as five in their kindergartens. | 13yrs
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has issued four advice memoranda for general counsel handling policies on electronic communication and social media. | 13yrs
Florida-based Carlton Fields is merging with smaller 70-lawyer practice Jorden Burt to create litigation-specialist Carlton Fields Jorden Burt. | 13yrs
The US Department of Justice has asked US lawyers to delay civil litigation as far as possible during the US shutdown. | 13yrs
The Council Legal Service has raised questions about plans for an EU banking union which could set back the project for months or svn years. | 13yrs
A 40 per cent increase in the number of magistrates has been welcomed by senior lawyers - but they are still concerned about a lack of office space to house the 20 new personnel. | 13yrs
Wealthy families which are reluctant to use traditional trusts may turn increasingly to private trust companies, according to the 'Wealth Report 2013'. | 13yrs
The UK's Ministry of Justice is participating in a 2015 conference, the UK Global Legal Summit, which will celebrate 800 years of law and portray the country as the legal destination of choice for global businesses. | 13yrs
Boies Schiller has opened its first London office in the first move towards international expansion. | 13yrs
With the amount of digital data doubling every two years, research shows the legal departments need to be aware of the huge risks to their business if information is not managed properly. | 13yrs
Saudi Arabia gave its first licence to a woman yesterday when Bayan Alzahran became the first female to be able to practice. | 13yrs
The Zambian Law Association, law firms and individual lawyers have been involved in a 'dignified protest' at the continued stay in office of acting Chief Justice Phillis Lombe Chibesakunda. | 13yrs
The Ugandan government is being urged by the Muslim Centre for Justice and Law (MCJL) to regulate Sharia law courts. | 13yrs
The Law Society of the Northern Provinces is seeking leave to appeal against a South African Supreme Court decision which can see them excluded from employment and other arbitration hearings. | 13yrs
San Francisco-based, 900-lawyer employment law firm Littler Mendelson is entering into an arrangement, under the Littler Global flag, with two new firms in Latin America. | 13yrs