Kirkland & Lewis has reportedly agreed to pay litigation rainmaker James Hurst, formerly of Winston & Strawn, $9m a year for four years. | 9yrs

Citibank is the latest bank to show that, despite the large sums already paid out, the banks are expecting further big legal bills. | 9yrs

Bodies representing lawyers in the UK have grouped together to call on the government to protect client-lawyer confidentiality after it emerged that state organisations had routinely been listening in to confidential telephone calls. | 9yrs

Baker & McKenzie is to train staff and clients on regulatory investigations through its newly-established Bakers Investigations Academy. | 9yrs

Kirkland & Ellis has received $20.5m in fees and another $1.25m in expenses in its role as bankruptcy counsel to Energy Future Holdings Corp, the company that became the energy sector's biggest bankruptcy ever in April. | 9yrs

The legal profession has become the focus of a campaign from Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs in which they are given time to pay all the tax they owe but then threatened with tougher penalties if they do not comply. | 9yrs

Deutsche Bank and other banks have been named in a law suit filed by the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, claiming US$190m from them for allegedly avoiding taxes in 2000. | 9yrs

UpCounsel, the service that matches entrepreneurs to lawyers, is planning to expand beyond its San Francisco base after raising US$2.4m in seed funding. | 9yrs

The head of tax at the Big Four accountant was accused of lying by Members of Parliament over the way the Luxembourg office promoted tax advice. | 9yrs

The man who headed Clifford Chance's worldwide anti-trust team is leaving the firm after 15 years to set up a competition boutique based in Brussels and London. | 9yrs

Several Republican Attorney Generals, with assistance from corporates and law firms, have collaborated together 'like a large national law firm' to push back on measures proposed by President Barack Obama, according to the New York Times. | 9yrs

Consumers will be offered a more restricted choice of asset managers in future because the 'vast and growing' legal and compliance costs are restricting growth in the sector, according to the New City Initiative think tank. | 9yrs

The Pinsent Masons annual survey of the construction sector in the Gulf Co-operation Council area shows that the number of disputes fell at 61% of respondent companies. | 9yrs

DLA Piper has taken top place in The Lawyer Top 50 ranking of litigation practices - despite shrinking the number of litigation lawyers from 1,850 to 1,610. | 9yrs

AyacheSalama is opening in the City of London with a team of four partners who will advise UK clients on investments into France. | 9yrs

While formal action has not yet begun, Withers has informed Clifford Chance that it is preparing a legal action against it by the Lemos shipping family. | 9yrs

Details of the Linklaters accounts, filed with Companies House, show that profits rose 7% in 2013/14 and that its top earner made £100,000 more than last year with an income of £2.4 this year. | 9yrs

White & Case, Latham & Watkins, Allen & Overy and Linklaters are among the firms hoping to be on the new legal panel for Deutsche Bank when it decides on its new list of advisers during January. | 9yrs

The most senior judge in the UK civil courts has warned that miscarriages of justice must be occurring because of cuts in state funding. | 9yrs