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• International Legal Counsels – Jones Day leads

  Jun 15 2010 Like many other businesses and services, international law firms also see India as the opportunity that cannot be missed. more

• Plan to Create International Banking Tribunal in the Hague

  Mar 04 2010 Dutch not-for-profit organisation World Legal Forum (WLF) is leading an initiative to create an international tribunal for the resolution of banking disputes in the... more

• Lovells and Hogan reveal members of top-level management team

  Feb 08 2010 Lovells and Hogan & Hartson have finalised their top-level management team, naming the international management committee that will drive the combined firm's strategy.... more

• International firms attract more Indian law graduates

  Oct 28 2008 A record 40 per cent of graduates at a leading Indian law school are now taking up training contracts with international law firms such as Linklaters and Clifford... more

• Market disruption clauses invoked

  Oct 07 2008 Banks have over the past week used or are considering using market disruption provisions in their loan agreements to pass on their increased cost of funding to their... more

• Bingham McCutchen raids Heller Ehrman for DC regulatory push

  Aug 06 2008 Bingham McCutchen has hired four lawyers for its international securities practice, including the managing partner of Heller Ehrman's DC office, Geoff Aronow. more

• Indian law colleges: International law firms pick cream of the crop

  May 14 2008 The placement period at the National Law School of India University in Bangalore won't end for another month. But the batch of 80 students in the final year have... more

• EU calls on Zimbabwe to 'swiftly' announce election results

  Apr 01 2008 European politicians have called on the Zimbabwean Electoral Commission to "swiftly" announce election results, after unusual delays in their release. Foreign... more

• EU borderless zone to be extended to airports

  Mar 29 2008 At midnight on Sunday (30 March) the enlargement of the EU's borderless zone to eight Eastern European countries and Malta will be completed through the lifting of air... more

• EU data protection chief criticises fingerprint plan

  Mar 28 2008 EU plans on regulating the issuing of passports and creating a centralised fingerprints database do not sufficiently protect the rights of citizens, the head of the... more

• EU data protection chief criticises fingerprint plan

  Mar 28 2008 EU plans on regulating the issuing of passports and creating a centralised fingerprints database do not sufficiently protect the rights of citizens, the head of the... more

• Supreme Court Sides With Texas in Dispute With Bush

  Mar 26 2008 In a landmark decision at the intersection of state, federal and international law, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that neither the World Court nor President... more

• Debevoise Named Best Law Firm (Fund Formation) In North America By Private Equity International

  Mar 12 2008 Debevoise & Plimpton LLP has been named Best Law Firm (Fund Formation) in North America by The Private Equity International Awards 2007, presented by Private Equity... more

• IBA's 'Islamic Finance in the Middle East' conference to address Islamic banking regulatory challenges

  Jan 02 2008 Al Tamimi & Company Advocates and Legal Consultants, one of the leading law firms in the Arabian Gulf region, today announced that it will co-chair the upcoming... more

• Legal Expert Connections Projects Top 10 Law Firm Practice Areas of Media Interest in 2008

  Jan 02 2008 The top 10 law firm practice areas of interest to the media, based on current news events, are projected to be real estate, government, intellectual property,... more

• Class action lawyers scoop record $464m fees

  Jan 01 2008 Class action lawyers pursuing Tyco International on behalf of shareholders have been awarded nearly half a billion dollars in fees, the largest legal payday in... more

• Russia calls for formal arms reduction treaty with US to replace 1991 agreement

  Nov 28 2007 Russian officials said Wednesday that leaders in the country want to replace the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) [text] with a formal, binding agreement... more

• International law community denounces emergency rule in Pakistan

  Nov 12 2007 Around 500 law professors, law students and lawyers of various international law institutions ensured the protesting legal fraternity of Pakistan of their cooperation,... more

• Rights groups accuse Egypt of limiting press freedoms after court jails editors

  Sep 17 2007 Amnesty International and Reporters without Borders Friday accused Egypt of clamping down on freedom of the press after a court sentenced the editors of four tabloids... more