568 ABA Journal United Kingdom articles.
Hackers are intercepting email between lawyers and clients, as well as real estate agents and their clients, in an effort to steal closing funds.
The scheme has been successful in…
Jan 11, 2016 4:15 PM CST
LegalZoom has already been approved in the United Kingdom as an alternative business structure. But its expansion plans don’t end there.
The online legal document company announced plans on Thursday…
Dec 8, 2015 10:52 AM CST
A judge on the Belfast High Court in Northern Ireland ruled Monday that the region’s prohibition of abortions in cases of rape, incest and fetal abnormality violates the human rights…
Nov 30, 2015 12:55 PM CST
A judge on the High Court of Justice of England and Wales today approved the United Kingdom’s first deferred prosecution agreement, under which the ICBC Standard Bank will avoid criminal…
Nov 30, 2015 12:05 PM CST
Share prices of the world’s first publicly owned law firm lost 65 percent of their value last Thursday and Friday, but prices partially recovered this week.
The share price…
Nov 30, 2015 7:32 AM CST
A law firm in the United Kingdom is the world’s oldest operating law firm, according to Guinness World Records.
The Kent law firm, Thomson Snell & Passmore, traces its roots…
Nov 30, 2015 6:15 AM CST
A well-known corporate insurance partner in the London office of a U.S. law firm has been publicly fired on YouTube, due to his use of insulting language in front of…
Nov 10, 2015 2:35 PM CST
A “Million Mask March” on Thursday organized by the hacktivist group Anonymous on the anniversary of a failed British rebellion in 1605 reportedly created chaos in London.
But it also…
Nov 6, 2015 12:40 PM CST
Goodwin Procter an office in Frankfurt, Germany, with four Ashurst partners. It is the firm’s second European office,
David Hashmall, who serves as chairman of the U.S.-based firm, said the…
Nov 5, 2015 3:25 PM CST
Nov 1, 2015 12:50 AM CDT
A British lawyer who cut the cost of commuting to London by pretending to travel from a station much closer to the city’s center would have had to—over a period…
Sep 30, 2015 1:50 PM CDT
Only a year after Allen & Overy became the first of London’s leading corporate law firms to open an office in Toronto, the so-called Magic Circle firm is closing the…
Sep 29, 2015 11:35 AM CDT
Four years after a U.S. killing of an American-born cleric in Yemen through a drone strike sparked concern and criticism, the U.K. is facing similar questions about the drone-strike deaths…
Sep 9, 2015 2:44 PM CDT
A human rights lawyer in the United Kingdom has accused a Brown Rudnick partner of “unacceptable and misogynistic behavior” for his comment about her “stunning” photo on LinkedIn.
The human…
Sep 9, 2015 8:24 AM CDT
Add another law firm to the growing list of those whose partners have been horrified to discover that they have an Internet twin.
For anyone who might happen to see…
Aug 7, 2015 11:45 AM CDT
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