8 h. ago Law firm Ashurst strikes merger deal with US business Perkins Coie

The groups said the planned combination will create one of the largest 20 global law firms by revenues.

Economics

13 h. ago Ashurst and Perkins Coie agree transatlantic law firm merger

Deal comes despite Donald Trump targeting Perkins Coie with executive order that posed ‘existential risk’

Politics

3 d. ago ‘The water came up to my waist but I carried on walking’ – This is climate breakdown

When the rain started I had to find a way home to my children. I could never have imagined how long it would take. This is Ruchira’s storyLocation Mumbai, IndiaDisaster Maharashtra floods, 2005Ruchira Gupta is an English-to-Hindi interpreter, a former lawyer, and mother of two daughters. In 2005, she was working at a small law firm in Mumbai, India when heavy rainfall flooded the country’s western state of Maharashtra, killing 926 people. Between 1950 and 2015, there was a threefold increase in extreme rain events in India. Continue reading...

Politics

3 d. ago The law firm, the hedge fund and the fights behind a £36bn lawsuit

Litigation over the Mariana disaster in Brazil was overshadowed by tension between Pogust Goodhead and its backer

Economics

4 d. ago ‘Utter hypocrisy’: tobacco firm lobbied against rules in Africa that are law in UK

British American Tobacco pushed Zambian ministers to drop or delay ad bans, health warnings and restrictions on flavoured products, letter showsBritish American Tobacco has been accused of “utter hypocrisy” for lobbying against tobacco control measures in Africa that are already in place in the UK.A letter seen by the Guardian, sent from the company’s subsidiary in Zambia to the country’s government ministers, asks for plans to ban tobacco advertising and sponsorship to be abandoned or delayed. Continue reading...

Economics

6 d. ago Men with family stuck in Gaza say lack of action from UK government is a breach of human rights

Two fathers in UK who are separated from relatives enlist law firm to get government to act on promises made months agoThe British government is facing legal action over its lack of action to help evacuate families in Gaza after committing to do so months ago.Two families have argued that the government’s failure to act is unlawful and in breach of their family’s human rights. They are among a number of separated families to which the government has failed to keep its evacuation promise, according to the law firm Leigh Day, which is representing them. Continue reading...

Politics

7 d. ago Murray Beith Murray: Prestigious Edinburgh law firm with Sir Walter Scott connection makes 175

A long-running law firm based in Edinburgh has published its accounts publicly for the first time

Politics

1 week ago McDonald's to make major change in UK after letter from regulator

It comes after more than 700 people who were aged 19 or younger instructed a law firm to take legal action on their behalf

Politics

1 week ago In All’s Fair, the girlboss archetype has never been more embarrassing

The girlboss ideal dominates Ryan Murphy’s new legal drama ‘All’s Fair,’ starring Kim Kardashian at the helm of an all-female law firm. Ellie Muir looks into how girlbossism has been adopted by the next generation of female entrepreneurs, and why the language surrounding it has never appeared to be more humiliating

Politics

1 week ago Top UK lawyer is ousted from his own firm after 'spending cash meant for litigation on private jets and parties'

Thomas Goodhead, 43, co-founder of the high-profile law firm Pogust Goodhead, has been accused of blowing investor funds on extravagant travel and luxury hotels.

Economics

1 week ago All’s Fair review – Kim Kardashian’s divorce drama is fascinatingly, existentially terrible

Not even Glenn Close can save this Ryan Murphy disaster from its dismal plots, clueless characters – and the worst kissing scenes ever filmedI did not know it was still possible to make television this bad. I assumed that there was some sort of baseline, some inescapable bedrock knowledge of how to do it that now prevented any entry into the art form from falling below a certain standard. But I was wrong. The new series from Ryan Murphy, All’s Fair – starring Kim Kardashian, Naomi Watts and Niecy Nash as the founders of an all-female law firm delivering divorce-y justice to incredibly rich but slightly unlucky women under the azure skies of California – is terrible. Fascinatingly, incomprehensibly, existentially terrible. While I try to get my thoughts in order after bearing witness to the first episode, I’m going to give you a few direct quotes, so you can see why I’m struggling.“Let’s put the ‘team’ in ‘teamwork’.” Continue reading...

Events

2 w. ago Disgraced Prince Andrew is facing a private prosecution after Virginia Giuffre sex scandal

Campaigners have taken unprecedented step of instructing a law firm to investigate the former Duke of York

Politics

2 w. ago Citi probe did not interview women who complained about executive’s conduct

Bank stood by Andy Sieg, a potential successor to CEO Jane Fraser, after investigation by law firm Paul Weiss

Politics