Civil cases are taking an 'unacceptable' four years to get to appeal in the Supreme Court, according to Irish member of parliament and barrister Michael McNamara. | 13yrs
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US oil giant Chevron has won an interim ruling which could see it escape a US$ 19 billion compensation bill in Ecuador. | 13yrs
In his second article in the series, Sandeep Sacheti of Wolters Kluwer looks at why Big Data Is a Big opportunity. | 13yrs
Advani & Co, lawyers to BP and Colgate-Palmolive in India, is taking part in its second merger in two years - to take the size of the practice to 60 lawyers. | 13yrs
Lawyers at the Department of Justice have raised concerns about a lawyer's relationship with her client in a criminal case. | 13yrs
Online gambling has taken its first tentative steps in the US having been banned seven years ago. | 13yrs
Offshore trusts are the most favoured vehicle among high net worth individuals for holding investments, according to their legal advisers. | 13yrs
The email accounts of lawyers representing five men accused of plotting September 11th were monitored, according to the chief defence lawyer. | 13yrs
Two more UK law firms have revealed plans to develop non-legal services - in accident management and insurance and finance. | 13yrs
David Kirk, Chief Criminal Counsel at Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), will become a partner with the MCGuireWoods joining its Government, Regulatory and Criminal Investigations (GRCI) practice at the beginning of 2014. | 13yrs
The first periodical payment order linked to foreign economy has been approved in London's High Court. Kennedys partners Mark Burton and Christopher Malla discuss the case. | 13yrs
JP Morgan Chase, the bank involved in various regulatory disputes, is 'aggressively tackling' legal and regulatory issues, according to chief executive Jamie Dimon. | 13yrs
Two structured finance and securitisation partners are leaving Mayer Brown to take up positions in the global markets division of Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft in London. | 13yrs
All seven female partners in Weil Gotshal's Dallas office and one male partner are jumping ship to join Sidley Austin. | 13yrs
Bank of America has spent over US$55 billion on legal costs and compensation in the last five years and faces payments of billions in the next few years. | 13yrs
Fashion week has seen the announcement of The Luxury Law Summit's next big event in assocation with the International Herald Tribune. | 13yrs
Litigators and employment specialists are among the winners in salary terms over the last year, according to the latest remuneration surveys. | 13yrs
Lawyers for the EU finance ministers say that the EU banking union could be achieved without going through the lengthy legal process that Germany has suggested. | 13yrs
Weil, Gotshal & Manges is one of the leading professional firms that has benefited from a US$ 3 billion fee bill that has been paid in relation to the Lehman Brothers collapse in 2008. | 13yrs
The former deputy general counsel of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority has sued her former employer and claimed that its general counsel defamed her. | 13yrs