China is taking a more active approach to enabling forced labour challenges against Japanese organisations, culminating in the last few days with the seizing of a Japanese cargo vessel. | 10yrs

As lawyers from abroad seek to strike up relationships with families of passengers on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight, the Malaysia Bar Council is offering free legal help. | 10yrs

Law firm Clifford Chance LLP reported there is no evidence to support the accusation that the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) intentionally pushed small businesses into insolvency. | 10yrs

The 370-lawyer Florida-based firm Carlton Fields Jorden Burt has opened an office in LA under Mark A Neubauer, formerly national head of Steptoe & Johnson's litigation team. | 10yrs

The Malaysian Bar has warned local families to be careful about using US law firms over the missing flight MH370 and has threatened the firms with legal action if they break a ban on foreign lawyers giving advice. | 10yrs

Bank of America has reported a quarterly loss of US$276m and was pushed into the red by legal costs including US$3.6b over mortgage-backed securities. | 10yrs

The US national mortgage administrator is facing a raft of legal issues including the departure of its chief legal officer. | 10yrs

A Californian judge has allowed a claimant to sue LinkedIn over its paid for service. | 10yrs

China is introducing major changes for the first time in 25 years to its environmental protection laws. | 10yrs

Litigation spending has risen once again as 71 per cent of US companies report an average spend of $1 million or more. | 10yrs

US law firm Brown Rudnick is rescinding offers to 10 associates who were scheduled to join the firm in the fall in New York and Boston offices. | 10yrs

Facebook has revealed that UK law enforcement agencies made more 1,900 requests for data within a six month period. | 10yrs

HWL Ebsworth will have some 187 partners, 425 lawyers and revenue of about A$200m after the proposed July merger, putting it third in Australia after Clayton Utz and Minter Ellison. | 10yrs

Some US cities are starting to import approaches taken from medicine and air transport in order to focus better on mistakes in the criminal justice system. | 10yrs

One of the leading UK banks, RBS, says it has received over a thousand loan requests from lawyers who need to raise about a quarter of their salary to meet new tax rules. | 10yrs

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) is to decide whether it will investigate a complaint against Gerrie Nel after he cross-examined athlete Oscar Pistorius and accused him of being a liar. | 10yrs

Catherine D Salucon is asking for protection against threats to her 'life, liberty and security' after a paralegal colleague was shot and killed last month after the two of them attended a hearing together. | 10yrs

Law firms have been lobbying in Washington DC with the hope of seeing off proposals that could create 'cash-flow nightmares' and other problems for them. | 10yrs

A New York judge has reduced the divorce payments due to the wife of a Cadwalader partner, arguing that she reduced his capacity to earn by criticising him in public. | 10yrs