Practice areas

Senior executives in the Midlands law firm Gateley will take a share worth about three per cent each of the total launch market capitalisation of £100m when the practice floats on the junior UK stock exchange, AIM, on 8 June. | 11yrs

Law and other professional firms use location, IT, workplace design and style as important ways of differentiating themselves to potential recruits - but features such as canteens and gyms come near the bottom of the list of attractions. | 11yrs

One of the two partners in the team will serve as co-chair of the global Winston project finance team and the other will head a new office in Dubai. | 11yrs

Three partners and five other lawyers are joining the Washington DC and New York offices of 300-lawyer firm Stroock & Stroock & Lavan. | 11yrs

Two-thirds of in-house counsel in German companies are using e-discovery in domestic litigation even though there is no legal requirement for discovery. | 11yrs

Shanghai-based AllBright Law Offices, a firm of over 1,000 lawyers, is entering into a ten-lawyer joint venture alliance with Hong Kong-based Stevenson Wong & Co in the co-operation zone which was set up to test yuan liberalisation. | 11yrs

A paralegal's ability to read a Mali marriage licence written in French and found in a fatal crash scene in Indiana has led to the overturning of a US$4.25 award to the victim's heirs. | 11yrs

The 700-lawyer litigation-only firm Quinn Emanuel expects to open its second China office with a team of between three and five people, once regulatory clearance comes through. | 11yrs

The new group, GC100 - which includes half the top lawyers from the Australian Stock Exchange 100 - intends to lobby on a range of areas from data protection to corporate governance and practice management. | 11yrs

A leading barrister, Charles Bear QC, has raised more questions about the Bank of England's record on internal investigations - undermining the bank's credibility on the Forex and other international scandals. | 11yrs

Reed Smith opens its second office in Germany on 1 June - with seven partners who come from Mayer Brown, Orrick, Wilkie Farr and Jones Day. | 11yrs

The Australian financial services regulator ASIC is becoming so short of resources that lawyers are starting to fill the breach by taking on official roles as compliance consultants to banks and other institutions. | 11yrs

Profits per equity partner rose in the world's largest firm to £502,000 per head in UKMEA - driven by double-digit growth in the Middle East and UK strengths in banking, media, IT and real estate in 2014/15. | 11yrs

Florida-based Butler & Hosch has just closed down - following the sending of an email by the CEO to the 700 staff telling them that there were insufficient funds to pay them at the end of the week. | 11yrs

A legalistic approach taken by travel company Thomas Cook after two children died on holiday in Corfu has been blamed for a serious mishandling of the issue - leading to a public outcry, an apparent boycott of the company and a social media petition. | 11yrs

A murky picture of Wall St and the City of London emerges from a Labaton Sucharow report which suggests that the more people earn the more sceptical they get - and that a third of UK individuals would do insider trading if they could go undetected. | 11yrs

The top 50 law firms in the US took 61% of specialist patent, copyright, trademark and trade secrets disputes in 2014 - up from 36% in 2011, according to research from LexisNexis/CounselLink. | 11yrs

Luxury brands should stop moaning about copyright infringement in China and simply ensure they do not drop a stitch when protecting their products, a leading lawyer said at the Luxury Law Summit. | 11yrs

The number of defaults and corporate failures is on the increase in the People's Republic - and foreign investors and traders are being warned that some court decisions could appear inconsistent. | 11yrs