The Chicago-based international firm is closing in the Swiss city at the end of September, from which stage the practice will run its European arbitration practice through the Paris and London offices. | 10yrs
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The bank has posted a US$1.45b expense for legal bills and is in talks with the US Justice Department about a possible settlement over its role in selling mortgage securities in the run-up to the global financial crisis. | 10yrs
The Ministry of Justice is consulting between now and October on proposals which could see 91 of its English and Welsh courts shut and a further 31 combined - as part of a cost-cutting move - but innovation could become part of the answer. | 10yrs
The 1,000-lawyer US law firm is saying farewell to some of its partners, including London City head Joe Pillman, in a move which sees the end of a City-based practice that had 50 lawyers. | 10yrs
A construction lawyer who helped quadruple the size of her team in five years, the women's champion known for her stylish dress, Lynne Freeman has died, just six weeks after sending her last message on Twitter. | 10yrs
According to bank insiders, Linklaters managing partner Simon Davies may have received a mandate to review Lloyds Bank's legal function as one of his first tasks in his new role as chief people, legal and strategy officer. | 10yrs
The 50-partner team which recently announced its departure from Olswang will become the 38th office of the 1,800-lawyer US-based practice on 1 October. | 10yrs
A co-operating witness has testified that plans to handle a $50m hole in the accounts of failed firm Dewey & LeBeouf began at a lunch in a Manhattan steakhouse and continued with the staff returning to the office and writing up notes of the scheme. | 10yrs
Personal injury lawyers might see dramatic shifts in their business in the next five to ten years as driverless cars cut out the role of human error in accidents and as law-makers consider new approaches to liability, according to experts. | 10yrs
Eager to attract foreign investors, Italy is soon to consider extending its fast track court scheme from 12 specialist courts in the country to include most kinds of business partnership in the scheme that now operates just for public companies. | 10yrs
Data protection is emerging as one of the main areas in which organisations need advice in the robotics sector - in areas ranging from the surveillance of staff at work to the use of cameras in drones and data retained by driverless cars. | 10yrs
Eric Waxman, a 57-year old partner in Skadden Arps, has left the firm after admitting to 'deeply' regrettable changes he made to his account of a client interview he did six years ago. | 10yrs
The Delhi High Court has set aside the state government's order rejecting an application by online taxi firm Uber Technologies for a licence to operate in the capital, allowing the US-based company to ply its trade in Delhi and reapply for a licence. | 10yrs
Casefunder has become the latest Australian online platform to be set up to fund legal cases - a trend that has accelerated as access to legal aid has been cut back. | 10yrs
Top 15 global firm Mayer Brown is to sign an association agreement with one of the oldest and largest Chinese firms, Jingtian & Gongcheng, under which the two parties are expected to second staff, cross-sell and engage in joint marketing. | 10yrs
The military police has searched 91 establishments, including law and accountancy firms, and seized 1,500 vehicles as part of an investigation into the buying and selling of cars - in what is the largest seizure of such vehicles by these squads. | 10yrs
A team of seven partners and five other lawyers has moved from Williams Kastner to 900-lawyer firm Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, forming the basis of a new office in Portland, Oregan. | 10yrs
Property boutique Morris Schneider Wittstadt is suing the Cosmopolitan casino hotel for return of the funds which ex-managing partner Nathan Hardwick IV paid to it but which, says the firm, the casino should not have accepted. | 10yrs
A 92-year old leading New Jersey foreclosure firm which posted $30m in gross revenue last year has given notice it could close in August - and other firms are saying that bank clients made it impossible for the firm to survive. | 10yrs
Paul Napoli of Manhattan-based Napoli Bern - which acted for many 9/11 victims - has been ordered to repay 'every last pencil' and all the money he has been ruled by a judge to have taken from the firm in violation of a receivership order. | 10yrs