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The Unite union is funding cases for 17 former and current employees of unidentified British airlines who claim to have been poisoned by toxic cabin air. | 11yrs

David Haigh, former GC and chief executive of Leeds Football Club, looks likely to have to represent himself as embezzlement and breach of trust charges were brought against him in the Dubai criminal courts. | 11yrs

New graduates from law schools could be facing a 'tax bomb' in 17 years time if they are forgiven part of their educational loans, according to a professor at Southern Methodist University. | 11yrs

London-based law firm Leigh Day is in the initial stages of gathering clients for a group action against Foxtons with an ex-Clifford Chance lawyer likely to be the first claimant. | 11yrs

The UK's first listing of a law firm has gone ahead successfully - raising £30m on the junior AIM market, enough to return £25m to former partners and to provide £5m of working capital and for strategy implementation and the transition from an LLP. | 11yrs

The 1,000-lawyer specialist employment and labour law firm Littler Mendelson has informed San Francisco staff that it intends to make 113 of them redundant by the end of the month. | 11yrs

The 150-partner law firm, fresh from expanding on the east and west coasts of the US, is adding an affiliate office in Japan which will specialise in corporate tax. | 11yrs

Herbert Smith Freehills partner Gavin Margaretson has been named as chair of the International Chamber of Commerce's Commission on Arbitration in Thailand. | 11yrs

The post-2010 legal and regulatory bills rose paid out by the top 16 banks in the world rose nearly 20 per cent in 2014 amidst signs that the charges might continue to be incurred, according to the CCP Research Foundation. | 11yrs

The joint resignation of the two co-chief executives of the German bank has been partly prompted by apparently unsuccessful attempts to get on top of a continuing stream of legal and regulatory problems and fines. | 11yrs

New York-based Hughes Hubbard & Reed - which lists 370 lawyers and advisers on its website - has now parted company with Jeff Galloway, who was a partner specialising in complex litigation before the scandal broke. | 11yrs

The office is mentioned in the Knight Frank Global Cities Report top 10 - alongside Google's London office, Microsoft in Amsterdam and Oro Negro in Mexico City. | 11yrs

Sweeping powers by the UK government to retain phone and internet data are being challenged in court. | 11yrs

Top payer Kirkland & Ellis is set to lose its sixth partner in six weeks as Ward McKimm, the high-yield specialist, is set to join the Magic Circle firm in London - apparently on a deal that would give him £1m more than the maximum usually given. | 11yrs

Growing calls from politicians and the media to release the full internal investigation report written by Michael J Garcia could see the former US prosecutor's work play a central role in the next stages of the scandal at football's governing body. | 11yrs

The firm has lost former German international board member Eva Reudelhuber - now at Gleiss Lutz - and Hong Kong capital markets partner Jon Gray - now joining Davis Polk. | 11yrs

Withers has increased its US practice by nearly a third in the last five weeks - taking on a new team in Greenwich, Connecticut before the latest move which adds another three California bases. | 11yrs

Ellen Pao is to appeal a decision on the sex discrimination she brought against her former employer, venture capital business Kleiner Perkins - in what is seen by her supporters as a campaign against widespread sexism in the US's main high-tech zone. | 11yrs

Litigation partners in other law firms will be following the case which, if won by plaintiff David Lola, could require them to pay overtime to contract lawyers involved in document review once they exceed the usual working week of 40 hours. | 11yrs