The latest BBC Business News: breaking personal finance, company, financial and economic news, plus insight and analysis into UK and global markets. Dentons becomes the first global firm to lay down roots in Utah through the proposed combination with Salt Lake City headquartered Durham Jones & Pinegar. U.S. Legal News Headlines. Addleshaws team, helmed by construction and engineering partner Andrew McVeigh and  co-head of the housing sector Peter Hardy, are leading for Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation. Some students attempting to take the ethics exam for the Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) were dismayed with […]A total of 27 staff from BT Legal, which was acquired by DWF last year, have been made redundant. President Donald Trump took a hard line on immigration in the 2016 election, making it his signature campaign issue.

All rights reserved. Earle left Gibson Dunn in January after more than five years at the US firm. threats of legal action and sanctions forced Greek shipowners to surrender Iranian fuel to the U.S. government in recent days, people familiar with the confiscation said.The criminal inquiry focuses on whether a NASA official improperly shared information about a lunar-lander project with an executive at Boeing, which acted on his guidance.CenturyLink agreed to extend a ban on its soliciting customers in the Boise, Idaho, area and to appoint an independent monitor after it allegedly violated the terms of its acquisition of Level 3 Communications, the U.S. Justice Department said Friday.Here’s the latest on lawsuits over election procedures in key states such as Georgia, Florida, Texas and Pennsylvania.A federal appeals court in California ruled that the state’s ban on large-capacity firearm magazines is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, notching a significant precedent in favor of gun rights.An Islamic cleric who allegedly aided and recruited countless followers to join Islamic State was extradited from Jamaica and arraigned in a Manhattan court on conspiracy and terrorism charges.Angola’s Supreme Court sentenced four men, including the son of the former president and the former governor of the central bank, for embezzling $500 million from the country’s central bank in 2017.A former FBI lawyer is expected to plead guilty to a charge of altering an email used to seek the continued surveillance of onetime Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.China’s iQiyi, a Netflix-like video-streaming company, said it was under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, sending its shares plunging.City leaders and business owners prepared for more protests and potential looting as activists planned a march Saturday to shut down a major highway through Chicago.A federal judge denied a motion by General Motors to revive its civil-racketeering lawsuit against Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.A company executive in the vital market opposed a move to ban a controversial politician who staffers concluded had violated hate-speech rules. Make sure you've stayed on the right side of the law throughout the crisis. Here’s our predictions for this fantasy world of entirely-listed firms.When we take a closer look at revenue per partner by region, it’s clear why strong bases in Asia Pacific and the US are essential.The slow trickle of firms leaving the West End has been happening for some time: is the end in sight for W1 as a legal hotspot?The digital financial services sector is prospering. As well […]The biggest shake up of the planning system since 1947 continues apace with the announcement, on 2 August, of government plans to create an automatic green light for development within specifically designated areas of the country.In this update, we explain the application process to establish an investment firm in Ireland under MiFID.Financial pressure can change perspectives on transactions – whether through the lens of an insolvent winding up, in the context of a counterparty or related interested party exploring ways in which they might unravel a transaction, or a new board considering whether a company can extricate itself from contractual arrangements that appear to have been subject to a conflict of interest or which were for an improper purpose.The Chief Constable of West Midlands Police has successfully challenged a misconduct hearing panel’s decision to impose a Final Written Warning, after an officer made racist remarks about a fellow officer.34 years young but in reality, only now is legal marketing growing up.There is an old saying, attributed to the French Philosopher Voltaire, that ‘doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one’. Mayer Brown acted for Link, Asia’s largest real estate investment trust, led by […]Following the UK Government’s investment in the front-runner coronavirus vaccine from AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford, it has announced a new £100m cash boost to develop the infrastructure for a Covid-19 vaccine.