Practice areas

Lawyer jobs are vulnerable to the progress of artificial intelligence, according to the author of new title 'Humans need not apply'. Jerry Kaplan is a lecturer on the legal informatics course at Stanford University. | 10yrs

Mori Hamada & Matsumoto, the Tokyo-based practice whose clients include Panasonic and Sanyo Electronics, is to open a three-lawyer base in Nagoya in September. | 10yrs

An increasing number of litigation funders has made class actions easier to bring, according to research from King & Wood Mallesons, meaning that many more businesses could be vulnerable. | 10yrs

After a three-month trial, Herbert Smith Freehills is extending an agile working programme from a group of partners and other fee-earners to cover all its practice groups in London. | 10yrs

Arab Bank has agreed to settle a class action litigation by 297 victims of terrorism, days before an unprecedented damages trial was due to begin. | 10yrs

Multinationals are counting the cost of the explosion in the Chinese port city of Tianjin last week, with rating agency Fitch declaring on August 18 that the insurance bill could reach US$1.5bn. The blasts killed 114 people and injured more than 700. | 10yrs

Google has been given two weeks longer to respond to a European Commission antitrust charge that the search engine giant 'abused its dominant position' to promote its online shopping services and mobile phone software. | 10yrs

There is now media speculation that the energy company will come in for the biggest corruption penalties ever levied, once all internal and external inquiries are completed. | 10yrs

Singapore-headquartered Rajah & Tann is launching a contract lawyer business. It will begin through a network of the firm's own alumni, who will work as in-house freelance legal advisers. | 10yrs

A New York Times article inspired by employee unhappiness at Amazon describes the legal sector as 'one of the most brutal' regarding employee commitment. | 10yrs

The head of the Czech Energy Regulatory Office (ERU) has been accused by the police of breach of trust and abuse of power in relation to the appointment of her deputy. | 10yrs

The increased spend is expected to occur over the next decade, according to a package of information put together by LexisNexis' Business of Law Blog. | 10yrs

A Delaware chancery court has sanctioned Kramer Levin, after one of its lawyers instructed a colleague in his firm to not answer 75 questions when acting as a witness in a case. | 10yrs

Alexandra Hageluken, head of banking and capital markets at Clifford Chance in Germany, has become the third German CC partner to join Latham & Watkins this year. | 10yrs

The Amarchand Mangaldas split has created a wave of pay hikes and poaching, with big and even mid-sized law firms forced to compete to retain top talent. | 10yrs

Bank lending to UK law firms has jumped 28 per cent in the last five years to £7.35bn, as the practices seek to expand, retain key people and develop IT, according to finance provider LDF. | 10yrs

Law firms are facing 'really tough' short-term conditions, but 86 per cent of them are expecting to see a growth in their intellectual property work, according to research from the Commonwealth Bank's Legal Market Pulse survey. | 10yrs

Only a fortnight after it was estimated that 30 per cent of Indian lawyers are fake, it has emerged that there is no reliable data and that it will take at least six months to set up and run a verification process. | 10yrs

The 40-lawyer New York practice that advised victims of the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks will be reborn as two firms, after the name partners agreed to settle proceedings over alleged financial irregularities and ethical misconduct. | 10yrs