Within the next four years or so, the United Kingdom market for legal services will become one of the most lightly regulated in the world. And, as literally hundreds of…
The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered dismissal of a case seeking to sort out whether victims of the regime of Ferdinand Marcos are entitled to $35 million in assets held…
After news that China may have secretly copied information in the U.S. commerce secretary’s laptop last year, a Congressman says that’s far from the only intrusion for which computer hackers…
As a result of an ongoing probe by New York state authorities, three major Internet service providers have agreed to block access to the Web by groups that use the…
For a while, it looked like a coalition of newly elected leaders of Pakistan’s parliament would restore to office this spring dozens of appellate judges removed from the bench late…
Stymied by the puzzling stabbing death of a 36-year-old French citizen, those in charge of the San Francisco investigation have turned for help to French authorities.
Two New York-based international law firms are the latest to announce that they are opening offices in Brazil, billed as “the new Middle East” by a legal publication.
It isn’t just the biggest and best-known law partnerships that could potentially benefit from a new U.K. statute allowing alternative business structures and non-attorney ownership by 2011.
After the apparent success of Tyco International’s grand experiment in legal cost-cutting in Europe, which is now in its second year, further innovation is expected both from…
A new law school in China has announced its intent to seek accreditation from the American Bar Association, so graduates could potentially practice law in the U.S. (States commonly require…
A Spanish judge has indicted 11 men, all but one of them born in Pakistan, on charges related to an alleged plot to attack the Barcelona transit system in January.
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