When the two new partners arrive, Morgan Lewis & Bockius will have recruited five partners from K&L Gates to staff its London structured finance group. | 9yrs
When the two new partners arrive, Morgan Lewis & Bockius will have recruited five partners from K&L Gates to staff its London structured finance group. | 9yrs
Lawyers think the leak of 37m names from the membership list of the Ashley Madison database, an online club aimed at unfaithful spouses, is going to create a boom in divorces this autumn - a 'Christmas in September', according to one practitioner. | 9yrs
Lawyer jobs are vulnerable to the progress of artificial intelligence, according to the author of new title 'Humans need not apply'. Jerry Kaplan is a lecturer on the legal informatics course at Stanford University. | 9yrs
Mori Hamada & Matsumoto, the Tokyo-based practice whose clients include Panasonic and Sanyo Electronics, is to open a three-lawyer base in Nagoya in September. | 9yrs
An increasing number of litigation funders has made class actions easier to bring, according to research from King & Wood Mallesons, meaning that many more businesses could be vulnerable. | 9yrs
After a three-month trial, Herbert Smith Freehills is extending an agile working programme from a group of partners and other fee-earners to cover all its practice groups in London. | 9yrs
Arab Bank has agreed to settle a class action litigation by 297 victims of terrorism, days before an unprecedented damages trial was due to begin. | 9yrs
Multinationals are counting the cost of the explosion in the Chinese port city of Tianjin last week, with rating agency Fitch declaring on August 18 that the insurance bill could reach US$1.5bn. The blasts killed 114 people and injured more than 700. | 9yrs
Google has been given two weeks longer to respond to a European Commission antitrust charge that the search engine giant 'abused its dominant position' to promote its online shopping services and mobile phone software. | 9yrs
There is now media speculation that the energy company will come in for the biggest corruption penalties ever levied, once all internal and external inquiries are completed. | 9yrs
Singapore-headquartered Rajah & Tann is launching a contract lawyer business. It will begin through a network of the firm's own alumni, who will work as in-house freelance legal advisers. | 9yrs
A New York Times article inspired by employee unhappiness at Amazon describes the legal sector as 'one of the most brutal' regarding employee commitment. | 9yrs
The head of the Czech Energy Regulatory Office (ERU) has been accused by the police of breach of trust and abuse of power in relation to the appointment of her deputy. | 9yrs
The increased spend is expected to occur over the next decade, according to a package of information put together by LexisNexis' Business of Law Blog. | 9yrs
A Delaware chancery court has sanctioned Kramer Levin, after one of its lawyers instructed a colleague in his firm to not answer 75 questions when acting as a witness in a case. | 9yrs
Alexandra Hageluken, head of banking and capital markets at Clifford Chance in Germany, has become the third German CC partner to join Latham & Watkins this year. | 9yrs
The Amarchand Mangaldas split has created a wave of pay hikes and poaching, with big and even mid-sized law firms forced to compete to retain top talent. | 9yrs
Bank lending to UK law firms has jumped 28 per cent in the last five years to £7.35bn, as the practices seek to expand, retain key people and develop IT, according to finance provider LDF. | 9yrs
Law firms are facing 'really tough' short-term conditions, but 86 per cent of them are expecting to see a growth in their intellectual property work, according to research from the Commonwealth Bank's Legal Market Pulse survey. | 9yrs
Only a fortnight after it was estimated that 30 per cent of Indian lawyers are fake, it has emerged that there is no reliable data and that it will take at least six months to set up and run a verification process. | 9yrs