Still several months short of the one-year anniversary of its IPO, what has been billed as the world’s first publicly owned law firm, Australia’s Slater & Gordon, has been growing…
A traditional taboo against suing banks among big-league United Kingdom law firms is rapidly losing its power as legal eagles there and abroad rev their engines in anticipation of a…
An Algerian pilot falsely accused of helping train the terrorists who flew commercial airliners into the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001 says he wept with…
Three more law firms based in the United Kingdom are “tantalizingly close” to making the top 10 list of the world’s most profitable firms, the American Lawyer…
Business is reportedly brisk at private detective agencies in Britain that are offering a popular new service. For those who doubt a spouse’s adherence to his or her marriage vows,…
A proposal to ban illegal music and film downloaders from using the Internet that has been under discussion for months by Hollywood entertainment industry officials and Internet service providers may…
A well-known British firm is eliminating its traditional experience-based associate pay system and moving to a system that rewards with higher salaries those who demonstrate legal skills.
Another person is being held for questioning in connection with the $7 billion-plus rogue trading scandal at Société Générale, potentially contradicting the bank’s earlier explanation that the initial suspect, Jerome…
Updated: The Archbishop of Canterbury is front-page news throughout the United Kingdom today, facing a firestorm of criticism even from his own bishops following his reported call for Britain, at…
Partners at U.K.-based law firm Clifford Chance tell the American Lawyer its U.S. offices are thriving after a 2000 merger with Rogers & Wells that led to…
In a discovery that has fanned fears that British inmates’ phone calls to their attorneys are routinely bugged, a lawyer in the U.K. reportedly has received transcripts of secretly recorded…
A German anatomist whose partially dissected, sliced collection of preserved human corpses has been seen by millions throughout Europe and the United States in controversial “Body Worlds” museum exhibits now…
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