Claims made to professional indemnity insurer Elite this year totalling £2.5m may be only the tip of the iceberg in an epidemic of so-called 'vishing' fraud, where callers posing as bank employees empty office and client accounts. | 8yrs
Editor and journalist at The Global Legal Post
Claims made to professional indemnity insurer Elite this year totalling £2.5m may be only the tip of the iceberg in an epidemic of so-called 'vishing' fraud, where callers posing as bank employees empty office and client accounts. | 8yrs
Research conducted by Oxford Economics for the Law Society has found that the legal services sector in the UK would be 'disproportionately disadvantaged' if the UK were to completely withdraw from the EU. | 8yrs
The Brazilian government is in talks with lawmakers to increase revenues by legalising gambling, after they signalled that the government will struggle to overcome a budget deficit by passing a controversial new tax. | 8yrs
The Supreme Court has released a statement defending Lord Sumption, after his comments about equal representation of women at the top of the legal profession led to a barrage of criticism on Twitter. | 8yrs
Herbert Smith Freehills has added another element to its global Latin America Group with the launch of a New York hub. It will be led by international arbitration partner Christian Leathley and run out of the firm's New York office. | 8yrs
The long-awaited hearing for the extradition of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom began today in Auckland, New Zealand. The US is seeking to extradite Mr Dotcom and three of his colleagues for alleged copyright infringement, money laundering and racketee | 8yrs
World players' union Fifpro believes the transfer rules of football's governing body FIFA breach European Union competition law, and is taking its complaint against FIFA to the European Commission on Friday. | 8yrs
Barry Roux has said that the former Paralympic athlete's ability to pay for another trial over the murder of his former girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp would be 'non-existent'. | 8yrs
Research conducted by Ipsos MORI for the Legal Services Board and Legal Services Consumer Panel shows unbundling has the potential to widen access to justice. | 8yrs
An appeals court has granted Apple an injunction that means Samsung may have to make changes to the software running on its smartphones in order to continue to sell them in the US. | 8yrs
A white paper from Guidance Software is intended to be a handy reference guide for GCs who need to be able to take part in the cybersecurity conversation, but may not be familiar with the vocabulary. | 8yrs
A weekly round-up of moves around the globe. | 8yrs
A law firm has filed a discrimination claim in New York on behalf of Giorgio Armani Corporation's former general counsel. | 8yrs
Jerome Abelman, global GC of British American Tobacco (BAT), is kicking off the first review of the FTSE 5 company's external legal advisers since he was appointed to the role in May. | 8yrs
Police have searched the Kobe headquarters of the Yamaken-gumi. It is the yakuza group's first police raid since it was ousted from the Yamaguchi-gumi, in a rupture of Japan's largest crime syndicate. | 8yrs
Lawyers using Chichester Combined Court have pleaded with Lord Chancellor Michael Gove to reconsider the decision to close it. | 8yrs
The Supreme Court of India has said that the mental and physical fitness of lawyers should be put to the test to prove they are able to conduct trials in criminal cases and ensure that litigants don't suffer on account of their competence. | 8yrs
Japanese prosecutors have charged the head of collapsed Bitcoin exchange MtGox with embezzlement, amid allegations of fraud relating to the disappearance of hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars with of the virtual currency. | 8yrs
Several families of those who lost loved ones and a number of those who were seriously injured in the beach gun attack in Tunisia in June have begun legal action against Thomson, the tour operator who provided their holidays. | 8yrs
International law firm Linklaters is giving clients the opportunity to sign legal documents electronically, directly from their smartphone, tablet or desktop. | 8yrs