Lawyers in New South Wales will now be able to make requests and seek preliminary orders such as adjournments and hearing dates online. | 8yrs
Editor and journalist at The Global Legal Post
Lawyers in New South Wales will now be able to make requests and seek preliminary orders such as adjournments and hearing dates online. | 8yrs
Centurion Law Group continues it pan-African expansion with the opening of an office in Douala this month. It is the first move by an international law firm into Cameroon and is fuelled by a resurgent oil and gas industry. | 8yrs
A NSW solicitor who fraudulently charged Legal Aid A$30,000 has been stripped of his right to practice law. | 8yrs
Hogan Lovells has made an application to the High Court on behalf of its client, the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA), to resolve the issue of authority over management of the country's assets in the UK. | 8yrs
Top UK pharmaceutical companies set aside a massive £1.46bn this year to fund tax litigation, according to a report by Thompson Reuters. | 8yrs
Research from marketing collective First4Lawyers has found that claimant lawyers are spending £208,000 per day on marketing, with the internet the fastest-growing marketing channel. | 9yrs
Ke Jie Law Office, based in Beijing, has formed a global legal network service with thirteen foreign firms. | 9yrs
11KBW silk Sean Jones has begun an appeal on Just Giving requesting lawyers donate a billable hour to support Save the Children's work for refugees. | 9yrs
In a survey by Crown Records Management, 70 percent of IT decision makers in the legal industry said their company have lost important data. | 9yrs
A Tennessee lawyer has been suspended after billing a client US$5,000 for research that turned out to be the watching of true crime programmes. | 9yrs
Hogan Lovells has announced Oliver J. Armas as the new managing partner of its New York office, while finance lawyer Rober Masman is to join the firm's global finance practice as a partner in the Amsterdam office. | 9yrs
Clifford Chance has announced that Jessica Gladstone is to join its London office as a partner. Ms Gladstone specialises in public and private international law, advising multinationals, financial institutions, foreign investors and sovereign states. | 9yrs
Lawyers for three former Dewey & LeBoeuf leaders accused of fraud have told a judge that they won't call any witnesses to bolster their defence and plan to rest their case when the jury returns on Tuesday. | 9yrs
Eight City firms have adopted a contextual recruitment tool to boost social mobility among staff, after a government report criticised professional service firms for consistently excluding bright working-class applicants from their workforce. | 9yrs
Reed Smith has taken on Gregory Wang as a partner in Hong Kong from Morrison & Foerster, and two local partners in Singapore - Calvin Chan from Skadden and Kohe Hasan from Oon & Bazul - as it looks at gaining Singaporean local law capability. | 9yrs
Taylor Wessing has announced a merger with Dutch firm Deterink, in a move that will see the firm gain two new offices in Amsterdam and Eindhoven. | 9yrs
News Corp has announced that Rebekah Brooks will return as head of its UK division after resigning over a tabloid phone hacking scandal, though it may face a new legal challenge from the Crown Prosecution Service. | 9yrs
According to a survey by the International Legal Technology Association and InsideLegal, security management has beaten email management as the biggest issue that legal IT departments must confront for the first time in eight years. | 9yrs
Cisco's lawyers at Winston & Strawn claim in a lawsuit that HP is refusing to pay a US$58 million balance. | 9yrs
The litigation boutique has announced it is opening in South Korea, and will relocate co-founder and partner Michael Kim to lead the new office. | 9yrs