Lawyers are likely to be paying more attention to tax issues this year - either in advising an estimated 1,200 wealthy Indians with secret HSBC bank accounts in Switzerland or in answering suspicions that they themselves are under-declaring. | 9yrs

Markus Buchart, 52, is seeking unspecified special, aggravated and punitive damages and costs from the city of Winnipeg after he was sacked from the legal department a few days before Christmas. | 9yrs

The Bank of England, the UK's top bank regulator, has been accused of not putting its officials under scrutiny 'in the way in which professional people are normally assessed' when it investigated a Forex scandal for which £4b of fines have been paid. | 9yrs

The 104-partner German practice Flicke Gocke Schaumburg is to open a Hamburg office in the summer, servicing it with a team of 20, some of whom will work part-time in the new base. | 9yrs

Embattled Big Four accountant PwC is facing the claim from the BAT group in relation to the acquisition of a subsidiary, auditing by PwC, which made carbonless copy paper but, allegedly, dumped the chemicals into the water system. | 9yrs

A Russian once known as the Kremlin's banker, Sergei Pugachev, has attacked the English legal system for letting him be pursued by the Russian state though a set of 'absurd' rulings which have left him unable to pay for lawyers. | 9yrs

Nearly two-thirds (61%) of commercial lawyers believe that proposed increases in UK court fees - taking them up to £10,000 in claims worth over £200,000 - could send litigants to New York, Singapore and other jurisdictions. | 9yrs

Three lawyers who studied together at law school have been barred by a federal judge in New Orleans from handling claims over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil leak against BP, the multinational operating the oil rig where the explosion happened. | 9yrs

A partner, a senior associate and a senior consultant who is also the chair of the IP committee of the Law Society of Hong Kong are joining Hogan Lovells as, respectively, a partner, a partner and a consultant. | 9yrs

The boutique intellectual property practice Lall & Sethi is to merge with Singh & Singh, a husband-and-wife law firm, on 1 April. | 9yrs

British banking group RBS has drawn attention to its 'conduct and litigation' costs, saying it is 'possible that the costs relating to settling these could be substantial in 2015'. | 9yrs

The Baker Botts v Asarco case has implications for other law firms which act in bankruptcy and, if Baker Botts wins, will make it easier for other practices to claim costs incurred in pursuing disputed fees. | 9yrs

Global charging rates and the bureaucratic structures of international firms 'do not serve property well', according to a former K&L Gates partner who left the firm with four other lawyers and a legal secretary last month. | 9yrs

The 475-lawyer, Kansas-based Shook Hardy & Bacon is opening its 13th office through the acquisition of a Chicago boutique. | 9yrs

The role of two general counsel - who are accused of advising homeowner associations to take over properties and then bring lucrative construction litigation actions through co-conspirators - will be examined in the trial starting this week. | 9yrs

At least a dozen of Wall St's largest banks - including JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs - are expected to form a data-sharing group with the law firms which advise them by the end of the year. | 9yrs

Deirdre Clark - the former Allen & Overy lawyer suing the firm for $15m - is to be examined by a psychiatrist under the order of the US court handling the claims she has brought of wrongful dismissal after an alleged drunken sexual encounter. | 9yrs

Mr Goldshmid, born in the Bronx of humble origins and latterly senior counsel at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, helped clean up the Enron-Arthur Andersen scandal by, from a position at the SEC, pushing through stricter oversight rules on auditors. | 9yrs

A legal ethics professor has asked white male lawyers in Canada to start turning down judicial appointments - on the grounds that only one non-white and ten women have featured in the last 46 appointments. | 9yrs