The Family Court of Australia has just decided a divorce case which could lead to 50/50 splits of assets, over-ruling the status quo which recognised and rewarded a 'special contribution' by one partner. | 10yrs

While other firms are promoting litigators to leadership posts, Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft is appointing James Woolery, formerly co-head of M&A at JP Morgan, to be its new chair. | 10yrs

Boards are increasingly relying on general counsel to keep them out of trouble with the regulators in the face of ever more regulation. | 10yrs

Claire Toumieux, vice-chair of the European Employment Law Association, is moving from Flichy Grange Avocats to become head of the Allen & Overy employment group in Paris. | 10yrs

Plaintiff law firms are targeting superannuation disputes - an area which can be resolved by conciliation in Australia - in another sign of a worldwide trend for lawyers to get a foot in the door in lawyer-free resolution arenas. | 10yrs

Morgan Tsvangiriai, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change in Zimbabwe, faces an attachment of his personal property over a legal bill relating to President Robert Mugabe. | 10yrs

The former general counsel of an oil company is facing jail after pleading guilty to a FTCA violation. | 10yrs

JP Morgan is due to announce next week that it will switch another US$400m to its legal reserves after being fined a record US$2.6b for not reporting suspicions over Bernie Madoff. | 10yrs

The woman who became Saudi Arabia's first female registered lawyer in November has just opened an employment and business disputes practice in Jeddah. | 10yrs

Deutsche Bank is under pressure from the German financial regulator to move its general counsel, Richard Walker, a former partner in Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. | 10yrs

Washington DC-based law firm Winston & Strawn is expected to open its doors in a new office in Taipei in March. | 10yrs

Record levels of regulatory action in 2013 are triggering a frantic search for compliance professionals. | 10yrs

The UK's Criminal Bar Association is predicting that criminal courts will grind 'to a halt' today as 'thousands' of their members 'made legal history by voluntarily choosing not to attend court'. | 10yrs

Lawyers have been calling on the National Judicial Commission in Nigeria to deal with lawyers and other ambulance-chasers who take on relatively lucrative bail cases and then ditch their clients. | 10yrs

Clifford Chance is one of three major law firms - along with Weil Gotshal & Manges and Nabarro - to be fighting substantial negligence claims this year. | 10yrs

The Myanmar Lawyer Network (MLN) is helping the Myanmar Journalist Network to raise issues about the controversial jailing of a journalist. | 10yrs

The year 2014 will see a stream of litigation from Aboriginee groups over new resource development legislation, according to lawyers for the Aboriginees. | 10yrs

Lawyers for Deutsche Bank are aiming to produce the terms of a settlement with shareholders by the end of January or early February. | 10yrs

Hong Kong has been criticised for not giving the public and the media the same access to documents mentioned in proceedings as is given in the US, Britain, Sourth Africa, Canada and New Zealand. | 10yrs