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Law Firm

Overview

A law firm is a business entity formed by one or more lawyers to engage in the practice of law. The primary service provided by a law firm is to advise clients (individuals or corporations) about their legal rights and responsibilities, and to represent their clients in civil or criminal cases, business transactions, and other matters in which legal advice and other assistance are sought.

Headlines Around the Web

LNG: The race for the next ‘Fort McMurray’

May 22 - Financial Post

Second Aussie firm goes public. Canadian firms . . . not so much

May 04 - Financial Post

What the future may hold for ‘character conversion transactions’

Mar 26 - Financial Post

SNR Denton, Salans and Fraser Milner Casgrain: Mega-merger of lawyers 'is biggest yet'

Mar 24 - Independent

Does Ottawa’s tax change on ‘character conversion’ spell end of some mutual fund offerings?

Mar 23 - Financial Post

ENRC internal inquiry raises suspicions

Mar 15 - Financial Times

Jon Kyl joins Covington & Burling

Mar 07 - Politico

SFO hires Slaughters for Tchenguiz case

Feb 28 - Financial Times

UK groups report rise in whistleblowing

Feb 28 - Financial Times

UK product recall drops from 10-year high

Feb 04 - Financial Times

DWF snaps up Cobbetts

Feb 01 - Financial Times

Three UK law firms announce job cuts

Jan 26 - Financial Times

Women lawyers' pay lags behind male colleagues

Jan 24 - Independent

Number of bank workers sacked for wrongdoing hits five-year high in Britain after crackdown

Jan 14 - Independent

Quinn Emanuel defies London’s legal gloom

Jan 10 - Financial Times

Silvercorp hit with class-action suit over allegations of financial misconduct in China

Jan 03 - Financial Post

Aviva files lawsuit over Dewey collapse

Dec 19 - Financial Times

Law firms suffer worst quarter since 2010

Dec 14 - Financial Times

Emails released in FedEx charges case

Dec 12 - Financial Times

Norton Rose merger to make it No 3

Nov 15 - Independent

Articles About Law Firm

SAC lawyers met prosecutors to argue against charges

By Reuters

Steven A. Cohen's lawyers made their best case argument a month ago to federal prosecutors about why the hedge fund billionaire and his SAC Capital Advisors should not be charged with criminal wrongdoing in a long-running insider trading investigation. (7:21 am)

MORE TOPICS: NEW YORK, MANAGEMENT, DELL, LAWYER, SECURITIES LAW, FBI

Rihanna Sues Philip Green's Topshop for £3.5m over 'Ugly' T-shirt Photo

By IBTimes UK

Singer suing Philip Green for using picture on Topshop T-shirts that portrays her in unflattering light. (9:06 pm)

MORE TOPICS: COURT, ADVERTISING, LAWSUIT

Phaneesh Murthy Case: Latest Twist Adds Love Child Too

By IBTimes IN

The law firm representing Araceli Roiz, the iGate employee who is allegedly pregnant with Phaneesh Murthy's child, is contemplating court action against the ousted CEO and the company as well. (6:33 pm)

MORE TOPICS: CALIFORNIA, COURT, INFOSYS, ABORTION

EU leaders talk tough on tackling Amazon, Google over taxes

By Reuters UK

Britain, France and Germany called for stricter rules to stop companies such as Google, Apple and Amazon aggressively avoiding taxes in austerity bitten Europe, while acknowledging they had done nothing unlawful. (May 23)

MORE TOPICS: APPLE INC., GERMANY, TAX POLICY, G20

EU leaders shine spotlight on Amazon, Google over tax policy

By Reuters

European leaders will discuss how to combat aggressive tax avoidance by major companies such as Amazon, Google and Apple at a summit on Wednesday, and cut the estimated 1 trillion euros a year the EU loses to tax evasion or avoidance. (May 22)

Ukrainian Billionaire Viktor Pinchuk Sues Business Rivals Over £94m Iron Deal

By IBTimes UK

Industrialist Viktor Pinchuk takes Gennadiy Bogolyubov and Igor Kolomoisky to London’s High Court over iron ore deal. (May 20)

Analysis: Little sign Abe can shake up Japan's inbound FDI

By Reuters

Japan risks missing, yet again, an opportunity to use foreign investment to help fuel sustained economic growth that has eluded it for the last two decades. (May 20)

MORE TOPICS: MANUFACTURING, GDP, JAPAN, RENEWABLE ENERGY, FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT, INVESTMENT

EU bonus cap could hit 10 times as many London bankers

By Reuters UK

European Union officials will next week propose capping financial sector pay above 500,000 euros, accountancy firm PwC said on Friday, suggesting the world's most stringent curbs for the industry will affect far more bankers than previous rules. (May 18)

MORE TOPICS: BARCLAYS, EUROPEAN UNION, LAWYER, INVESTMENT, LONDON

After Google, Amazon to be grilled on UK tax presence

By Reuters

Internet retailer Amazon.com Inc. will be called back to the British parliament to clarify how its activities in the UK justify its low corporate income tax bill, two lawmakers told Reuters. (May 17)

MORE TOPICS: MICROSOFT, COURT, RETAIL, TAX POLICY, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, MANAGEMENT