The Legal and Tax & Accounting visions have boosted growth at news and information company Thomson Reuters, bringing in higher than expected profit in Q2. | 10yrs

Nearly all the fines, 97 per cent, levied by the UK's leading regulator in the last four years have been achieved through settlement, according to research by Freshfields. | 10yrs

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom leads The Deal's US ranking for the first half of 2014, a period which is showing the best results since the late 1990s. | 10yrs

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has taken top slot again in the Washington DC lobbying survey carried out by the National Law Journal. | 10yrs

Swiss bank UBS has been discussing a €100m settlement over the way it handled some of its clients. | 10yrs

Inversion work from US companies and a six-fold rise in transactions is giving some of the leading Irish firms an outstanding year. | 10yrs

Cecil Leong and four of his international trade team are moving from the Singapore office of Bryan Cave to Mayer Brown. | 10yrs

A lawyer who helped negotiate the Lockerbie plane disaster compensation from Libya is suggesting that a united claim by all the families is likely to produce the best result in the loss of the Malaysian plane in the Ukraine. | 10yrs

Europrop, a multiple aerospace joint venture including Rolls Royce, is suing its former lawyer, Linklaters, in the French courts. | 10yrs

Federal agencies and 15 states have initiated 41 law suits against law firms and lawyers concerning alleged scams over the provision of legal help to struggling homeowners. | 10yrs

US Senators are not impressed with the GM legal department and have questioned why general counsel Michael Millikin has not left his job. | 10yrs

The Chinese authorities are planning to help lawyers working on international litigation and other matters by offering them training to assist them in working with foreign counterparts. | 10yrs

Leading bankruptcy practice Diamond McCarthy is suing ex-partner Sheila Gowan, seeking some of the US$1.4m that is likely to be paid to her for work in the Dreier law firm bankruptcy. | 10yrs

The Law Report Group, New York-based publisher of the Hedge Fund Law Report and The FCPA Report, has been acquired by the Mergermarket Group. | 10yrs

Accountants, consultants and other specialist expert witnesses are expected to see growth and greater demand each year until 2019, according to IBISWorld. | 10yrs

Leading litigation law firm Winston & Strawn has made US$20m from its e-discovery service in 2013, its third year of running the facility. | 10yrs

Raleys Solicitors has been sacked by the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) after referring to a hypothetical client as 'Mr Thikas Toosh Ortplanks' in its training material. | 10yrs

NautaDutilh patents partner John Allen was one of the 298 people who died when Malaysia Airlines plane 017 went down in East Ukraine. | 10yrs

More than 19,000 parents appeared in civil courts with no lawyer in cases about children because of issues in legal aid. | 10yrs