- Confronting the stark reality
- Former MPs facing trial over expenses say 'Parliament is our judge'
- Lord Justice Jackson is the new editor of civil procedure "Bible"
- Top SFO prosecutor joins Skadden
- Judicial appointments system to be overhauled
- Mayer Brown walks away from Simmons & Simmons talks
- Herbert Smith PEP up 2% to £862,000
- Legal complaints ombudsman opens for business in October
- John Zucker joins MAB
- Arbitrators are "employees" and protected against discrimination, Court of Appeal say
- US defence lawyer in Rwanda released
- Ex-Solicitor General Vera Baird fails to argue against driving ban
- Judges and retirement - will they be able to stay on?
- PwC report: City legal market recovering but nervousness remains
- Berezovsky denies cutting yacht broker out of €24 million commission
- Massive cut to magistrates' courts - 150 closures expected
- Former Mishcon partner Steele charged over 'fraudulent' loan
- Norton Rose revenues down 2 per cent
- After Bloody Sunday: Lord Saville is to retire early from Supreme Court
- Appeal judge Sir Robin Jacob is appointed to IP chair at UCL
- BLP boosts PEP 10% to 455k
- PM appoints Ken Clarke to be "anti-corruption chamption"
- RBS defeats Enron 'fraud' accusations
- Ritz 'fraud' trial hears from lots of lawyers
- Legal aid fees cuts "not ruled out" - new minister says
- Bob Musgrove to leave Civil Justice Council for Qatar
- Judge asks for moment's silence to remember Sarah Payne
- Phillips praises Human Rights Act and defends terror rulings
- Lady Justice Hallett in charge of judges' training
- Stewarts Law takes third Manches litigator
- Research shows global upturn in commercial disputes
- Closer scrutiny leads to longer FSA approval times
- Crusty judges, women in the law and legal aid - Baroness Kennedy at ILEX
- Baker & McKenzie appoints Brazilian partner as new global chairman
- Olswang profits up 38%; announces plans for international growth
- Lawyers in top ten "fat cat" civil servants paid more than PM
- Litigation funding helps companies not individuals, study shows
- Credit crunch fuels big rise in High Court claims, survey shows
- Israel accused of "piracy" and breach of international law
- Addleshaws rebuked for 'extraordinary' attempt to delay Berezovsky yacht dispute
- Eversheds: PEP up 28%, revenue down 3%
- Scottish solicitors vote for "Tesco law" and outside ownership
- Tesco and Marks & Spencer fail to lure legal shoppers, survey shows
- Lord Woolf: axe prison building and cut prison numbers
- Dig it
- Compensation for unfairly sacked top earners set to soar
- Lord Lester publishes bill to reform "archaic" libel laws
- Fergie and that £500,000 contract - can she sue?
- Clyde & Co hire US lawyer as special counsel in energy team
- Opinionated in-housers wanted for arbitration survey
- Supreme Court challenge over suspect's right in Scotland to lawyer
- Michael Beloff QC warns of threats to Bar's independence
- Clarke's new team at Ministry of Justice announced
- Straw v. Straw - it's a family affair
- Solicitors warn of cash flow problems because of delayed legal aid
- Ken's judicial oath - will it haunt him?
- Baker & McKenzie London head Gary Senior reappointed for another three years
- Male Eversheds lawyer wins sex discrimination case
- DLA Piper to open in Istanbul
- Meet the Boss: Clare Maurice
- Freshfields outpaces rivals on both sides of the pond
- Plans for fixed-term Parliaments "not credible" and "dangerous" - says law expert
- Ken Clarke "surprised" but pleased with "big important" job
- ID cards to be scrapped, libel laws reformed - but no British Bill of Rights
- How to solve a problem like Virgin?
- Dominic Grieve for Attorney-General
- Can OFT ever make criminal charges stick?
- Ken Clarke for Justice Secretary and Lord Chancellor
- Where is Ben Emmerson, QC?
- Linklaters could face bigger payout in Levicom case after appeal court reversal
- Lord Justice Richards questioned over alleged sexual claims
- Lord Justice Richards questioned over alleged sexual claims
- Senior judges relish test appeal on use of stolen documents in divorce
- How rapid is a rapid response? Answer - five months
- 'A huge embarassment for the OFT'
- Stewarts Law adds Lewis Silkin's Brahams
- Is Michael Howard set for a comeback under a Tory Government?
- Children will pay price if social workers leave family courts, say agencies
- 184 new partners at the top firms — but why so few women?
- Solicitors invited to comment on new "arm's length" regulatory regime
- Legal faces among 200 portraits in this year's national exhibition
- Warning over employment tribunals costs reform
- Warning over employment tribunals costs reform
- Bar proposes blacklist for solicitors who don't pay barristers' fees
- Orrick calls off merger talks with SJ Berwin
- In-house lawyers in EU privilege knockback
- Linklaters appoints new head of Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa arm
- Linklaters makes up 14 partners, Ashurst 11
- Conservatives confirm plans for single Economic Crime Agency
- Freshfields partners vote to unify senior partner role
- Marmite takes on BNP
- Dyson sworn in as 12th Supreme Court justice
- Lawyer cleared of Da Vinci extortion plot
- Sir Mark Potter returns to Fountain Court as an arbitrator
- Norton Rose makes up 11 partners
- Herbert Smith promotes 18 to partnership
- Meet the Boss: Jonathan Denny
- Clifford Chance launches Access to Justice award
- BNP Paribas appoints Herbert Smith banking chief as general counsel
- McGrigors rides to rescue over "Tesco law" split in Scotland
- Woman among three solicitor deputy High Court judges
- The future of legal aid: what top lawyers think - from Mansfield to Bindman
- Plans for cap on libel fees defeated
- Political parties clash over "self defence" proposals
- Class actions on hold after Parliamentary wash-up
- Doughty Street - another "five silks" celebration
- Making a Wall without Straw - Beloff's quip
- MPs and legal aid - deja vu
- Lovells appoints 21 partners
- Meet the Boss: Linda Woolley
- The trial that will make or break the UK cartel offence
- Are public authorities too exposed to court claims?
- Meet the Boss: Catherine Gannon
- Diary date: April 20 - Times/Matrix forum and debate on the Human Rights Act
- Linklaters appoints Jeremy Parr as head of corporate
- 25 Bedford Row and Matrix celebrate silks in style
- London firm Duncan Lewis boasts record 20,000 clients - earning it £10 million
- BNP barrister candidate resigns from chambers
- Freshfields makes up 18 partners, including 6 in London
- Travers Smith appoints Chris Carroll as senior partner
- Clifford Chance elects Bates and Lee to head London finance practice
- New chief for woman solicitors
- Watchdog calls for reforms to prosecution of fraud
- Campaigners lose bid to block SFO plea deal with BAE Systems
- Tax barrister stands for BNP
- New Supreme Court justice - Sir John Dyson
- NAO: drawn-out legal process is deterring competition regulators from flexing their m
- Woman founder of Manches dies
- New Supreme Court justice? Any day now......
- Nigel Wilkinson QC's set "re-brands" - complete with logo
- Judges' expenses - cheap at the price
- India's legal market is booming — but there's still no way in for British firms
- MoFo launches iPhone app
- Fraud and negligence: differences between cock-up and conspiracy
- Mumsnet - and Mr Justice Eady - want internet libel reform
- College of Law offers direct route to New York Bar for non-law graduates
- Conservative-linked barrister calls for single financial crime-fighting agency
- Trainee retention falls to 80%
- Steven Philippsohn
- Pink Floyd takes on EMI over online royalties
- Sir David Keene appointed to Queen's Counsel panel
- Lawyers and hot air - new findings
- Colourful judicial language - this month's prize goes to Sir Alan Ward
- Lord Carlile calls for consensus and new act on terrorism laws
- Ten High Court vacancies advertised
- Legal Aid Commission to come under close ministry control
- Libel "success" fees to be slashed
- Straw v. the judges: who should head the family courts system?
- Meet the Boss: David Stewart
- Partners at SJ Berwin to begin receiving profit distributions again
- Campaigners seek injunction against SFO's deal with BAE Systems
- Freshfields first to give pay rises for associates this year
- Record five silks for 25 Bedford Row
- Meet the Boss: Dan Cutts
- Cripps Harries lures Manches partner for property team
- Jurors and judges' directions on the law
- Solicitors charged over £50 million mortgage fraud
- Meet the Boss: Ronnie Fox
- Stewarts Law hires PwC's Paul Brehony
- Austrian count claims small underpants breached his human rights
- Eweida cross case could fuel divisive cultural and racial rhetoric
- Sumption, the Ship Money case and the Supreme Court
- Newly qualified solicitors 'exploited' – no really exploited
- Weird Cases: paying attention in law school
- Cleary takes litigator from Simmons in rare lateral hire
- How do you punish a lethal company?
- Meet the Boss: Peter Watson
- Keith Vaz joins FoxMandal Little
- Ex DPP says scrap "farcical" press watchdog
- Bestselling novel on coroners to be televised
- Lawyers' quiz night to raise funds for South Africa
- From divorce to arbitration - Sir David Keene is back in business
- BSkyB v EDS: parties agree £200m interim damages
- Howard Kennedy partner bakes for dementia
- Pope has "missed the boat" on equal rights, say lawyers
- Chief Constable wins MPs' backing to be new CPS inspector
- Supreme Court: of majority judgments and press releases
- Nicola Davies QC joins ranks of High Court women judges
- Blair under fire constitutional reforms that led to Irvine sacking
- Norton Rose to end four-day week
- Straw appoints new libel law working group
- A tale of mice and peers
- New Supreme Court justice - delayed by snow and Chilcot
- Lego bricks do not deserve EU-wide trademark, ECJ adviser says
- Top SJ Berwin partner gets £1.2m, despite 50% fall in profit
- Eight Shadbolt partners move in with Clyde & Co
- Weird Cases: the paternity matrix
- Lord Judge, "have a go heroes" and the quality of mercy
- SFO appoints Robert Goldspink as non-exec
- Accounts show capital call cost Dentons' partners £7.6m after profit slump
- Haiti and the law
- Meet the Boss: Anne Compton
- Diageo wins court protection for Vodka
- Pilots' pensions case opens at High Court
- Mishcon in surprise Manhattan opening
- Disturbances in court
- Lord Justice Jackson - an impressive performance
- Weird cases: can fish be a tool?
- CC's Michel Petite to head EC ethics committee
- Morning roundup:
- Linklaters appoints Salt as Asia managing partner
- Morning roundup: RBS defends Enron fraud allegations
- All trial advocates to undergo quality assessment
- Morning roundup;
- Yukos ECHR hearing postponed until March
- Globespan case against E-Clear adjourned
- Meet the Boss: James Partridge
- And the Golden Globe goes to . . . Olswang?
- Morning roundup: chef pursues Withers in landmark divorce case
- Kingsley Napley scoops top Government lawyer
- Law Society in legal challenge over acquitted defendants
- Bahrain promises arbitration independence
- Legal outsourcing: everyone’s a winner
- FSA claims first scalps of 2010
- Morning roundup:
- SJ Berwin associate appointed OFT director of mergers
- Lawyer to run Sauber Formula One team
- Trafigura goes back to the High Court over new £6 million claim
- Derry Irvine and Garry Hart - the double act returns
- Weird Cases: the unbelievably strong orgasm
- C&I names TNT's John Bleasdale as chair
- Jury sworn in for maiden file sharing prosecution
- FSA charges former iSOFT directors over misleading statements
- US lawyer Ted Simon joins Knox legal team
- Blair admits to "messy" sacking of Derry Irvine
- Sir Ian Brownlie CBE QC
- Linklaters top in European M&A
- Shop around at DivorceSupermarket.com
- Latham & Watkins opens in Beijing
- White & Case hires 50 for Berlin bankruptcy push
- Judge calls for press access to Court of Protection
- New Year legal honours
- Dutch court to hear Nigerian farmers case against Shell
- Edwin Coe launches appeal on behalf of beer drinkers
- OFT explains its reasons for dropping bank charges investigation
- Top earner at Norton Rose takes £160K pay cut
- Barlow Lyde & Gilbert replaces chief executive Clint Evans
- Sky News: 'OFT dropping bank charges case'
- A note to our readers
- The weirdest cases of 2009
- Herbert Smith appoints Jonathan Scott as senior partner
- BA wins High Court injunction to stop cabin crew striking at Christmas
- Four partners to go as Mayer Brown shrinks London corporate practice
- Mumbai court: foreign firms can't open in India
- Edward Fennell: In the City
- Lawyer of the week: Richard Hitchcock
- BA asks court to block Christmas strike
- George Lucas loses battle over Stormtrooper suits
- SFO to probe suspected fraud at Kaupthing
- Jewish school loses Supreme Court appeal over admissions policy — what the ruling mea