In a civil securities fraud suit filed in federal court in New York, a group of investors has accused a former partner in a Beijing-based BigLaw firm of conspiring with…
Three U.S.-based law firms—Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, McDermott Will & Emery, and Paul Hastings—received approval from South Korea’s Ministry of Justice to open offices in Seoul.
Press freedom advocates and international human rights groups are criticizing harsh sentences of three bloggers targeted by Vietnam authorities for being critical of the government.
To allay fears of some law firm staff after a devastating earthquake last year left much of Christchurch, N.Z., in ruins, Malley & Co. Lawyers left a massive new X-shaped…
A law professor at National University of Singapore is facing six criminal corruption counts, accused of giving a student better grades in exchange for sex.
Updated: There is news Friday that at least 12 more partners are exiting from the troubled Dewey & LeBoeuf, which has already lost about one-third of its partners in 2012.
Updated: Blind Chinese lawyer Chen Guangcheng left the U.S. embassy today with Ambassador Gary Locke to get treatment at a hospital for an injury to his foot sustained when he…
Having grown from 1,200 attorneys in 2009 to 2,900 today through a series of mergers with law firms in Australia, Canada and South Africa, a United Kingdom-based megafirm isn’t done…
A renowned London-based international legal partnership and the law firm with the largest attorney roster in Singapore have called off their merger talks.
Corrected: China’s Justice Ministry has announced that lawyers will be required to pledge an oath of loyalty to the Communist Party when they obtain or renew their licenses.
A Seattle defense lawyer who has been retained to represent an Army staff sergeant suspected of killing 16 civilians in Afghanistan says he has now met with his client, who…
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