JP Morgan has warned its investors to expect even more legal expenses to hit its profit and loss account despite announcing legal costs that are just under $1b. | 9yrs

The former head of construction at Holding Redlich has left the firm, taking eight lawyers with him, in order to set up a boutique practice. | 9yrs

Legal costs of US$2.7b are expected to drag down the results of New York-listed Citigroup when it announces its annual results tomorrow. | 9yrs

The leading US and EU banks have paid out US$230b in litigation costs and could end up disbursing another $70b by 2016, according to Morgan Stanley. | 9yrs

A recent BBC TV programme in the investigative Panorama series should put expert witnesses on warning that they need to make precise predictions about the potential earnings of personal injury victims, according to an executive search firm. | 9yrs

EU rules which came into place on Saturday, January 10, mean that multinational employers with no EU presence could be subject to EU rules through employees working in the area. | 9yrs

Rockwell Olivier, the network of law firms spreading across five Australian cities and zones, has been losing senior people from its Perth base over the last 18 months - including its chair Charmaine Tsang. | 9yrs

A new Los Angeles-based litigation practice whose partners advise BlackBerry and T-Mobile is opening with a team of 30 lawyers and the aim to become a national white collar and commercial legal presence. | 9yrs

Traffic lawyers in New York - a city which usually hands out US$10m a week in parking fines - have been hit by a sudden halving in the level of activity since the start of January. | 9yrs

Global restructuring partner Nick Segal has just been appointed a part-time judge in the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands. | 9yrs

The 500-lawyer international practice Blank Rome has recruited four litigation partners from Duane Morris and a fifth from Reed Smith to form the basis of its new Pittsburgh office which opens today. | 9yrs

Lee Buchheit, New York-based partner in Cleary Gottlieb has been described by the FT as 'the lawyer virtually every government turns to for advice on restructuring debt when the money runs out'. | 9yrs

Employment law experts Seyfarth Shaw are predicting an increase in legal action against employers in the US - on a range of issues including equal opportunities, mobile working and pension plans. | 9yrs

Bingham McCutchen's last remaining partner in Hong Kong is moving to join the banking and finance group of Mayer Brown. | 9yrs

The Supreme Court will start hearing a crucial case - on the 'fly in fly out' rights of foreign law firms - on February 27. | 9yrs

Inhouse lawyers are having to think more about approaching outside bodies which might file an amicus curiae brief - as statistics show they are filed in over 90% of cases before the US Supreme Court and that they are common in state supreme courts. | 9yrs

One in five people is considering separating from a partner after getting to the end of a Christmas period truce, according to UK law firm Irwin Mitchell. | 9yrs

The recruitment of Eduard Sheremeta, a real estate specialist, as a partner in Hong Kong, has brought to 80 the Ropes & Gray team of lawyers in Asia and to 75 the number of its property lawyers worldwide. | 9yrs

Other banks could feel themselves under greater pressure to settle with regulators now that JP Morgan has become the first - through a deal worth US$100m - to settle the civil lawsuits against it. | 9yrs