The Securities and Futures Commission is creating an eight-person litigation team as a way of strengthening its working resources, particularly as relates to the increasing influence of China. | 10yrs

Three former executives of failed US firm Dewey & LeBoeuf have been charged with fraud and theft by Manhattan prosecutors. | 10yrs

Patton Boggs managing partner Edward Newberry has said that any suggestion that the firm sees bankruptcy as an issue is 'laughable'. | 10yrs

Andrew Procter, global head of compliance at Deutsche Bank, is to join Herbert Smith Freehills in June and will probably be replaced by two people in a split role. | 10yrs

Eversheds and Pinsent Masons are among the law firms which are supporting a new scheme of apprenticeships for school leavers which will lead to the qualification of solicitor. | 10yrs

A team of five lawyers is leaving the DLA Piper asset finance group to joint Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman in London at the start of May. | 10yrs

Some 72 law firms in Germany were involved in sending out 109,000 piracy threats in Germany last year. | 10yrs

Angela Cobbina, formerly the top lawyer in Britain at ABN Amro, is claiming race, sex and religious discrimination against her former employer. | 10yrs

While a UK law firm is preparing a class action over thefts from two bitcoin exchanges, lawyers are dealing with the practical aspects of regulating an anonymous, virtual, global currency. | 10yrs

The legal community has been split over a judge's direction to shut down a website which exposed the follies of judges, other lawyers and others in power. | 10yrs

A United Nations court has put restrictions on Australia, ordering its security service not to spy on communications between East Timor and its legal advisers. | 10yrs

Administrators for Lehman Brothers in the UK are expecting to be left with a surplus of £5b, after paying all costs including at least £295m in legal fees. | 10yrs

The number of times that UK-based law firms were seen to be facilitating or perpetrating possible money laundering more than doubled between 2012 and 2013. | 10yrs

Tomorrow, the US Supreme Court might step in to debunk the “fraud on the market” theory which, according to a new study conducted by the Institute for Legal Reform, results in class-action lawyers receiving more than their fair share of fees. | 10yrs

Australia is being urged to set up a world-leading legal regime in the fast-developing area of unmanned aircraft law by the Australian Certified UAV Operators Association (ACUO). | 10yrs

Accountancy giant PwC has established a new law firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers Immigration Law LLP, by taking in the staff and resources of the Bomza Law Group. | 10yrs

London's High Court is due to decide in December if individual Dewey & LeBoeuf partners are responsible for loans they took out with Barclays Bank or whether the estate of the failed firm is liable. | 10yrs

Big Four accountancy firm EY is planning to spread its Asian legal network into Singapore, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Korea. | 10yrs

Goldman Sachs has cut the amount of legal fees it expects to pay beyond its existing reserves by about US$400m. | 10yrs