Global law firm Paul Hastings is launching an interdisciplinary practice group of several dozen lawyers from its offices around the globe to focus on the expanding legal issues connected to the 'Internet of Things.' | 8yrs

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has been accused of being 'dishonest' by a whistleblower before MPs last week in relation to its role as adviser to ScottishPower, which is embroiled in a £75m 'cashback guarantee' scandal. | 8yrs

The latest episode in a legal battle over Led Zeppelin's anthem 'Stairway to Heaven' has seen the surviving members of the band deposed and a request for more time to investigate its finances. | 8yrs

A report published today by the Centre for Policy Studies argues that the hourly rates charged by top London corporate law firms are so high that they risk restricting access to justice. | 8yrs

White & Case has announced it has entered into a new association in Saudi Arabia with Zeyad AlSalloum and Yazeed AlToaimi. | 8yrs

Further details have emerged about the London-based firm Blavo & Co Solicitors, which was shut down by the Solicitors Regulation Authority last October after the Legal Aid Agency referred concerns about the firm to the Metropolitan Police. | 8yrs

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Davis Polk & Wardwell are among the firms to have won key advisory roles on China National Chemical Corporation's (ChemChina) $43bn acquisition of Syngenta, the largest foreign takeover by a Chinese firm to date. | 8yrs

Former executive Martin Shkreli yesterday replaced his legal team with a New York lawyer whose past clients have included former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and rapper Jay-Z. | 8yrs

In a bid to increase profitability, DLA Piper international partners have approved an overhaul of the firm's partner remuneration structure, introducing a points system based on performance. | 8yrs

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined five individuals and two firms a total of £15.5m for their role in unauthorised solicitors' professional indemnity insurance schemes. | 8yrs

Credit Suisse and Barclays have agreed to pay a total of $154.3m to settle federal and state charges that they misled investors in their dark pools, officials said on Sunday. | 8yrs

In a bid to fix its financial health, personal injury law firm Slater and Gordon has brought in management consultants FTI Consulting to discuss restructuring its debt. | 8yrs

Facebook is attempting to take its fraud suit against DLA Piper, Milberg, and Lippes Mathias Wexler Friedman to New York's highest court, after a mid-level appeals panel rejected the suit last December. | 8yrs

Megafirm Dentons has added a team of lawyers to its financial markets and commercial disputes group from Matthew Arnold & Baldwin in Watford. | 8yrs

DLA Piper has today entered a combination with 30-lawyer Finnish law firm Peltonen LMR, as it develops its Nordic footprint. | 8yrs

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) filed for an injunction on Wednesday to prevent Cooke Young & Keidan (CYK) from continuing to act for Property Action Group (PAG), which is bringing a major dispute against the bank. | 8yrs

An HR manager from a New Zealand law firm has been sentenced to three years in jail for stealing approximately NZ$400,000 from the firm over a period of nine years. | 8yrs

Kennedys will be able to practice US law for the first time after making two hires for its Miami office. The firm is also forming an association in Argentina with local firm Alberto Bunge & Asociados (ABA). | 8yrs

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has defended its prosecution of six ex-brokers who were accused of helping to manipulate the Libor rate, after five of them were acquitted yesterday by a UK jury. | 8yrs

Sheffield City Council has launched a northshoring campaign in a bid to convince Southern law firms to open in the city. | 8yrs