Hunton & Williams LLP has become the latest law firm to open a specialist team to advise on unmanned aircrafts to the private and public sector. | 9yrs

Even though SME law firms in the UK are recording growth for the third year running, 'increasing levels of debt are a worry', according to result from accountants HW Fisher & Company. | 9yrs

A US$7.3m legal settlement in favour of a company sued over asbestos has demonstrated how the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act can be used on lawyers. | 9yrs

Allen & Overy has commissioned research which supports the conclusion that Europe is poised to develop a private sector lending market as an alternative to bank finance. | 9yrs

Ginger Rechel, GC at Tampa International Airport, has stood down amid reports that she is under investigation for breach of the state's open government laws. | 9yrs

Farney Daniels has reached an agreement with the Federal Trade Commission that it will stop threatening law suits to small businesses when it has no intention of initiating them. | 9yrs

London-based personal injury specialist Hodge Jones & Allen has developed a bespoke outcome predictor for its litigation cases with an academic at University College London. | 9yrs

Paul Napoli, the convalescing co-founder of Napoli Bern Ripka Shkolnik, is fighting two battles from his sick bed - a defamation case from a former employee and lover and a case over the running of the firm with a fellow partner. | 9yrs

US District Judge Carl Barbier has accused three lawyers of lying - one, Lionel Sutton III who worked inside a claim-handling centre and two from outside. | 9yrs

An Italian lawyer has been given a one-year suspended prison sentence for reading out a death threat in court to the author Roberto Saviano. | 9yrs

A New York judge has dismissed charges of falsifying business records against former leaders at the bankrupt firm of Dewey & LeBoeuf but the cases against them proceed. | 9yrs

Loretta Lynch, President Barack Obama's nominee for the role of Attorney General, was a partner for nine years in Hogan & Hartson, a predecessor firm of Hogan Lovells. | 9yrs

A Philippine patents trade association has made an agreement with a technical institute which they believe will increase the number of professional local patent filings. | 9yrs

At least five US law firms are considering launching class actions against the supermarket chain after accounting irregularities were exposed in September. | 9yrs

Online Legal Marketing is launching a tool that 'gives lawyers, law firms and legal marketers the ability to self-publish settlements, verdicts and judgments'. | 9yrs

Top 25 UK law firm Irwin Mitchell is making its sixth purchase since becoming an ABS (Alternative Business Structure) two years ago by acquiring Berkeley Law in London's Mayfair. | 9yrs

NML Capital, the hedge fund run by billionaire Paul Singer, has sought an emergency order to stop Argentine lawyer and former World Bank director Cesar Guido Forcieri from leaving the US. | 9yrs

Linklaters is relocating Hong Kong disputes partner Jelita Pandjaitan to start a litigation and arbitration practice in Singapore. | 9yrs

For the third year running, Jones Day has hired at least six former clerks from the US Supreme Court. | 9yrs