Tax, corporate and property work has all been on the increase in the top 150 US law firms in 2014 Q1, according to the Thomson Reuter Peer Monitor. | 10yrs

Boston-based Fish & Richardson leads the activity rankings on patent litigation in the US, followed by Farney Daniels and DLA Piper. | 10yrs

The latest Law Firm Watch survey from Citi Private Bank shows productivity rising at 1.1 per cent and demand rising at one per cent in the 177 legal practices included in the research. | 10yrs

Jones Day, the firm advising the city of Detroit on its bankruptcy, has also been called in to help in a similar bankruptcy case in California. | 10yrs

Barclays Bank will penalise any of its legal advisers which provide less value than expected by setting up a 'value account scheme' which rolls forward the deficit into the next contract. | 10yrs

The California Chief Justice has said that cuts to the courts budget have been so deep that people might be turning away from using them as a result. | 10yrs

Lawyer Violetta Volkova, who represented Yekaterina Samutsevich, one of the women sentenced to jail in August 2012, has been ordered to pay the equivalent of US$563 to her former client. | 10yrs

Lawyers have much to learn from financial advisers as to how to meet the full needs of clients rather than providing one-off services with gaps, according to a leading UK firm. | 10yrs

Withers has become the latest European firm to offer a special low-fee start-up packet to entrepreneurs. | 10yrs

Judge Steven Rhodes has asked Jones Day to explain why confidential documents on a mediation process involving the bankrupt city were sent to several creditors. | 10yrs

Legal experts are predicting that Malaysia Airlines will come under pressure to settle with the families of passengers on missing flight MH370 and that the cases will not reach court. | 10yrs

A practice of nine solicitor partners and four other senior executives, Gilson Gray, has launched in Edinburgh and Glasgow after recruiting from other firms. | 10yrs

Over a quarter of lawyers believe they are at their most creative either in the shower or while commuting into work, according to a survey. | 10yrs

The 1,000-lawyer practice has set up a drone practice group which is representing a photographer who took pictures using a drone in its first matter. | 10yrs

Law firms and other professionals submitted bills of US$36m in Q4 of 2013 in the Detroit municipal bankruptcy as courtroom and other battles intensified. | 10yrs

Patton Boggs has bowed out of trying to enforce a US$9.5b suit against Chevron on behalf of Ecuadorian villagers and is to pay the oil giant US$15m as a settlement. | 10yrs

Mayer Brown has bowed out with a red face from bringing a law suit alleging that women forced to act as sex slaves to Japanese soldiers in World War Two were prostitutes. | 10yrs

The publication of rules governing arbitration cases in the free trade zone which is being piloted in Shanghai is expected to boost the attractiveness of the area to foreign investors. | 10yrs

A new law regarding public notaries and other related changes are heralding a change in pace in the Dubai courts, according to the director of the Dubai Courts Department (DCD). | 10yrs