The phone-hacking trial, one of the most expensive prosecutions ever, saw Kingsley Napley client and former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks walk free whilst her former deputy faces jail. | 10yrs

New York and Los Angeles-based property specialist Duval & Stachenfeld has set up a Caribbean/Central America real estate practice group. | 10yrs

Bird & Bird has taken the unusual step of adding two firms from the same country, Indonesia, to its Pan-Asian network of allied firms. | 10yrs

Arbitration is fast becoming the dispute mechanism of choice in Africa, say Dr Stuart Dutson, Lucy Webster and Timothy Smyth of Eversheds. | 10yrs

Cleary Gottliebe, Torys LLP, Goodmans, Koskie Minsky and Gowling Lafleur are among the law firms working on the Nortel Networks bankruptcy, now becoming infamous for its fees bill. | 10yrs

The latest financial report from the Law Society show the costs of dealing with troubled firms rising from £3m to £6m. | 10yrs

Shawn Atkinson, senior venture capital partner in London, is leaving to join Orrick amidst speculation that four or five other partners are also considering transferring to other firms. | 10yrs

Richard Susskind, the legal IT expert, has been appointed by the Royal Bank of Scotland to advise on its forthcoming panel review process and help improve efficiencies. | 10yrs

Silicon Valley law firm Cooley is gearing up for a London launch and is said to be on the hunt for premium partners. | 10yrs

Having worked as a public defender can hinder a lawyer's chances of gaining political office. | 10yrs

James Kleier, formerly a partner in both Preston Gates & Ellis (now K&L Gates) and Reed Smith, has been sentenced to imprisonment for 12 months in relation to a decade of non-disclosure of earnings. | 10yrs

The UK's largest law firms are growing faster than their mid-size counterparts. | 10yrs

Sir Chris Hohn, founder of the Children's Investment Fund, and his ex-wife Jamie have begun proceedings in UK courts which could lead to his paying her US $1.4m | 10yrs

Anton Valukas, chair of Jenner & Block, has been defending the actions of General Motors in front of a US House of Representatives energy and commerce sub-committee, in an inquiry into its fatal ignition problems. | 10yrs

The US Supreme court ruled that substance must determine patentability for an invention, not an abstract idea on a computer. | 10yrs

Legal bills of £2.3m in the year to August 31 took celebrity chef onto the verge of a pre-tax loss, with a bad lease cost dragging the business into the black with a final loss of £6.4m. | 10yrs

Outsourcing company Quindell plc wants 1,500 workers in its legal division staff by the end of 2014. | 10yrs

Thomas Eckardt, legal consultant at Robert Walters in Sydney, is advising law firms to increase pay raises in the near future or risk losing lawyers. | 10yrs

Clifford Chance is set to vote next month on whether or not it should cut down its management committee from 16 to nine. | 10yrs