News

October 2010

A judge has shut down a burger bar after a leading US law firm took it to court for causing a nuisance with its fumes.
US firm Howrey has been dealt a body-blow after a huge chunk of its European IP practice resigned.
The owner of the solicitorsfromhell website faces a £45,000 bill after failing to re
Allen & Overy has spent a fortune on brand consultants and associate
Kaplan Law School has - uniquely amongst UK law schools - announced that all students applying for the GDL and LPC will have to sit an entrance exam a
Eversheds has confirmed that the Managing Partner of its Copenhagen of
Hours invested in sushi lunches and evening sake sessions look like coming in handy at last for Aussie lawyers, as
The QR National IPO that’s dominating the airwaves and is plastered all over bus shelters this month, has turned out to be a much needed cash cow for
Pippa Sampson, the principal lawyer at Melbourne firm Goddard Elliott, has been hauled up by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)
Sydney barrister Gregory Curtin - who has decried the senior counsel election process as capricious, unfair and lacking in integrity - has, errr, been
The state of Texas is currently debating an ethics ruling which would put the kibosh on nookie between lawyers and their clients.
After the galactic embarrassment suffered by ACS:Law last week

Irwin Mitchell has kicked off a class action on behalf of hundreds of brown trousered holidaymakers.

Kennedys has officially opened its new Sheffield branch with a blaze of publicity and the sounding of trumpets.
Justice Secretary Ken Clarke has warned that high street firms may have a shaky future with thousands facing closure.
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The fate of would-be hobbits across the Tasman rests in the balance this week, as an international union dispute threatens the filming of the long awa
A database administrator from Slater and Gordon is swatting ping pong balls (and mozzies) in Delhi this week as part of the Australian Commonwealth Ga
An American soul singer was detained at Sydney airport last week and then deported, after he tried to re-enter the country from New Zealand.
Amidst large scale job losses and departures,