3 March 2010 | Six Clayton Utz lawyers had their right of passage to the partnership expedited this week after 14 partners last month departed for the Australian offices of UK firm Allen & Overy.
2 December 2009 | Rumours of a merger between Clifford Chance and law firm Mallesons Stephen Jaques have again bubbled up, while the Australian firm maintains that no merger is imminent.
16 November 2009 | Employers can be liable if they dismiss an employee because of a genuinely-held belief in climate change, an employment appeal tribunal has ruled.
9 November 2009 | The federal Attorney General has flown to London to meet four of his international counterparts. Together they will try and solve various common legal issues.
2 November 2009 | For the second time in under a week, DLA Phillips Fox has today announced the appointment of a senior DLA Piper partner to its ranks.
23 October 2009 | The jury system is threatened by the internet generation, who are so used to getting their information in text they won't be able to grapple with the oral traditions of the court, a top judge claims.
8 October 2009 | The question of whether Australian law firms hold the key to Asia that firms such as Norton Rose and Clifford Chance thinks it does, has been raised in the United States.
7 October 2009 | There is widespread discrimination against lawyers who have been made redundant, according to local sources.
8 September 2009 | A new report highlights the increasingly tight access to law firm equity.
3 September 2009 | A large law firm has absorbed a small boutique firm in new merger agreement.
13 August 2009 | Foreign law firms operating in Singapore could soon practice Singapore law.
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21 July 2009 | Three lawyers are planning to float a $102m fund that they hope will make money by financing legal disputes as well as share in any damages awarded.
4 June 2009 | Mega UK firm Eversheds will help bring one of the greatest rock n' roll bands in history into the technologically advanced present.
28 May 2009 | Major British law firms have followed US trends reporting substantial falls in revenue, while central European firms have faired slightly better.
27 May 2009 | First quarter results for American law firms confirmed what many in the industry had already realised, business is down.
6 May 2009 | Hostile bidders lying low as deal volume plummets; Linklaters offers relief to associates
5 May 2009 | Melbourne solicitor Lucy Larkins will fly to the USA next week as part of a fellowship with Reprieve UK, the anti-capital punishment charity.
4 May 2009 | In a bid to cut costs some leading UK barristers and chambers are increasing their use of conditional fee arrangements (CFAs).
28 April 2009 | Petulant UK judge sent on her way; Yale Law School beats Stanford and Harvard in quality and cost
24 April 2009 | A survey into the career experiences of lesbian, gay and bisexual solicitors has been launched by the UK Law Society.
23 April 2009 | Law firms may rejig their business structures in an effort to find a loophool in a new tax burden for high earners in the UK.
1 April 2009 | FREEHILLS is now in good company, joined yesterday by Clifford Chance as being in the league of big firms with pay freezes.
1 April 2009 | A Chicago divorce lawyer who posed nude for Playboy now plans to sue the magazine for sexual harassment; Managing partners' confidence in the financial health of their firms is continuing to fall; Clifford Chance beats Lovells on trainee deferral pay
27 February 2009 | LEAKED details of DLA Piper's redundancy criteria reveal that fee earners could be penalised for their past attendance records, including sick days taken.
17 February 2009 | Simmons & Simmons today reveals almost 70 staff will lose their jobs, making it just the latest firm to be brought to its knees in the slowdown of the UK’s legal services market, reports The Times.