New documents have revealed that the collapsed Parabis group went into administration owing almost £50m to more than 2,500 unsecured creditors. | 8yrs

Simmons and Simmons' focus on costs and lock-up management helped the firm to increase profits and reduce borrowing costs for the last financial year. | 8yrs

A new study suggests that headlines predicting automation will have a dire impact on the job market for lawyers may have overstated the case. | 8yrs

Two out of three callers in 2015 to a charity offering support and advice to lawyers were women, while nearly four out of ten were trainees or qualified for five years or less. | 8yrs

Accounts filed at Companies House show Clifford Chance's streamlined executive leadership group saw an average seven per cent fall in their pay packets in the last financial year, while the firm's revenue and profit also fell. | 8yrs

The US Justice Department sued Volkswagen AG on Monday, seeking billions of dollars in penalties as a result of the emissions-cheating crisis at the German auto giant. | 8yrs

The European Commission is to examine the issue of Poland's constitutional court next month, after the Polish president signed into law disputed amendments to the court's powers. | 8yrs

Tennessee's attorney general is accusing Chevron and its subsidiaries of a 30-year scheme to fraudulently siphon millions of dollars from a taxpayer clean-up fund used to protect the public from leaks at underground petroleum tanks. | 8yrs

Law firms in Singapore have been expanding their employment practices to meet increasing demand for litigation, bolstered by tighter labour controls, the influx of foreign talent and the city state's growing popularity as a regional HR headquarters. | 8yrs

Chris Cummings, chief executive of the lobby group TheCityUK, says he has picked up a 'possible change in tone' in justice secretary Michael Gove's proposal for a levy to fund legal services. | 8yrs

China's National People's Congress Standing Committee has approved a new anti-terrorism law requiring tech companies to provide information to the government obtained from their products and make information systems 'secure and controllable.' | 8yrs

According to a source from the Argentina's economy ministry, the new government is searching for a second law firm to help resolve the country's long-standing battle with creditors suing it over its unpaid debt. | 8yrs

Trade experts claim that the rejection by an international arbitration tribunal of a case against the Australian government from the Philip Morris tobacco company answers fears about Investor State Dispute Settlement clauses in free-trade agreements. | 8yrs

China's outbound acquisitions in 2015 pushed Asia-Pacific's annual deal value past $1 trillion for the first time and the country looks set to raise the bar even higher in 2016, as companies buy more assets abroad to sidestep slowing domestic growth. | 8yrs

Apple and telecommunications-equipment maker Ericsson have ended a year-long patent dispute with a global license agreement that resolves all pending patent-infringement litigation between the companies. | 8yrs

Ukraine has missed the deadline to repay a disputed $3 billion bond it owes Russia, exacerbating tensions between the two countries and setting the stage for a protracted legal stand-off. | 8yrs

It remains to be seen how the law firm Kaye Scholer will treat its partner Evan Greebel, the former lead counsel of pharmaceutical company Retrophin who has been indicted alongside its former CEO Martin Shkreli. | 8yrs

KPMG, one of the Big Four accountancy firms to offer legal services through an alternative business structure, has reported a huge rise in income from the division and pledged further investment. | 8yrs

Data gathered by The Lawyer's digital tool Lawyer Market Intelligence (LMI) reveals that Herbert Smith Freehills is the UK law firm with the most FTSE 100 client relationships. | 8yrs

A criminal lawyer representing Turing Pharmaceuticals chief Martin Shkreli has informed his client that he is raising his hourly fees by 5,000 per cent. | 8yrs