Lawyers involved in the Detroit bankruptcy will meet the newly-appointed fee examiner in September as Detroit tries to keep the costs rising to $100 million - a figure some experts have predicted. | 13yrs
Practice areas
Women and the poor have been particularly disadvantaged by rising litigation costs in India, according to the chief minister of Tamil Nadu state. | 13yrs
The Canadian Association of Corporate Counsel has updated its ethics and compliance portal. | 13yrs
Billionaire Philip Falcone's confession of wrongdoing and agreement to pay US$11.5 million in fines is the first of its kind before the Securities and Exchange Commission and points the way for similar arrangements. | 13yrs
About 100 objections have been filed to the plans of Detroit city - now under the management of former Jones Day partner Kevyn Orr - to file for Chapter 9 bankruptcy. | 13yrs
A New York court has dismissed a case against Chinese firm DeHeng Law offices and one of its former partners for the third time. | 13yrs
Lack of funding has seen legal proceedings stall in the investigation into the Marikana Massacre in South Africa a year after the disaster. | 13yrs
BP is back in court yet again over the Deepwater Horizon spill of 2010 - this time trying to prevent investors in its shares from pursuing a class action lawsuit. | 13yrs
Competition experts in the US are expecting a gritty fight back from US Airways and its legal adviser O'Melveny & Myers after the Department of Justice said it will seek to block merger plans with American Airlines. | 13yrs
There is a thin line between business and personal communication when it comes to social media. Eugenie Nunes and Annemarie Roukema of Dutch law firm Boekel De Nerée discuss the implications for employers. | 13yrs
Law students from the Florida Coastal School of Law have the worst return for their money whilst those at the University of Texas at Austin top the table for investment return, according to new research. | 13yrs
Documents prepared by the law firm Dechert have been passed on by a former client, ENRC (Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation), to the Serious Fraud Office in London. | 13yrs
Apple is taking the initiative in the latest round of the Apple-Samsung mobile patent wars when it seeks a ban of some Samsung devices in the US. | 13yrs
London - regarded as the world's divorce capital - has just seen the awarding of the biggest divorce payment ever to a wife in a contested divorce. | 13yrs
PricewaterhouseCoopers is launching new guidelines to encourage businesses to devise more robust strategies on whistleblowing. | 13yrs
JP Morgan Chase could hear this week if any of its former employees will be charged over allegations that they tried to conceal losses of over $6 billion last year. | 13yrs
Two law professors have been rebuked by judges over their 17-year old divorce proceedings - a battle which has lasted seven years longer than the marriage. | 13yrs
Going down the product liability route may be a better route for business owners faced with counterfeiting issues. Paolo Beconcini discusses the role of AQSIQ. | 13yrs
Over 20 UK accountancy firms have indicated an interest to their regulator in being given ABS (Alternative Business Structure) status. | 13yrs
Fenwick Elliot, the UK-based construction and energy specialists, are to open a Dubai office early next year. | 13yrs