Siti Nurbaya, the Indonesian environment minister, plans to be directly involved in appealing the court's decision in favour of PT Bumi Mekar Hijau (BMH), a plantation firm accused of clearing land with fire in South Sumatra. | 8yrs

Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) has emerged as the most popular firm for FTSE 100 companies in High Court and Court of Appeal (CoA) cases. | 8yrs

Mississippi-headquartered Butler Snow has announced it is opening its first office in Asia in Singapore and a virtual office in Hong Kong. | 8yrs

Four human rights advocates have been formally arrested by the Chinese police on charges of subverting state power, according to one of their colleagues and rights groups. | 8yrs

A federal judge in San Francisco is calling on Robert S. Mueller III, a long-time director of the FBI now with Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, to help manage the massive litigation facing Volkswagen AG over its emissions scandal. | 8yrs

Opponents of the controversial Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement say New Zealand will be more vulnerable to legal attacks from foreign investors under its investment chapter. | 8yrs

A new report shows that some law students in the US are concealing mental health and addiction issues instead of seeking help, for fear that doing so could jeopardise their chances of being admitted to the bar or getting a good job after graduating. | 8yrs

2016 looks set to be General Motor's year of reckoning, with the company facing hundreds of claims demanding it pay compensation for the deaths of loved ones and injuries in accidents caused by a flawed ignition switch. | 8yrs

The Co-operative Group has announced its first legal acquisition, as it refocuses attention on face-to-face services after a difficult start in the sector. | 8yrs

Nabarro's French ally Lefèvre Pelletier & Associés is to merge with fellow Paris-based firm CGR Legal, creating a €44m (£32.9m) firm with 160 lawyers. | 8yrs

The tug of war between The Royal Bank of Scotland and its go-to law firms over a proposed pay freeze ended with Allen & Overy (A&O), Clifford Chance (CC), Linklaters winning appointments to the bank's legal panel for the next three years. | 8yrs

Indian law firm Nishith Desai has opened an office in New York, its second in the US and eighth globally, which will offer Indian law advice. | 8yrs

Stockbroker Arden Partners believes that up to 75 per cent of the current UK 200 firms could disappear over the next five years, as external investment consolidates the 'highly fragmented' market. | 8yrs

Insurance specialist Holman Fenwick Willan has seen its revenue drop five per cent to £139m from £145m, while its operating profit has fallen 16 per cent to £49.9m from £59m. | 8yrs

A retrial of former Dewey & LeBoeuf executives has been set for September, but won't include the firm's ex-chairman, Steven Davis. | 8yrs

Dentons has confirmed it is hiring Matthew Arnold & Baldwin's (MAB) banking and finance litigation team, made up of 11 partners and 64 fee-earners. | 8yrs

National Australia Bank and Westpac, Slater & Gordon's lead financiers, have installed McGrathNicol as investigating accountants to make a forensic examination of the law firm's books. | 8yrs

Houston-headquartered law firm Baker Botts has announced that it has officially opened its new office in San Francisco. | 8yrs

Nabarro and Slaughter and May improved their trainee retention figures this month, with the former keeping 89 per cent and the latter managing a 95 per cent rate of retention. | 8yrs

A report from a company that provides patent risk management services has shown that the number of patent disputes reached new highs in the US in 2015. | 8yrs