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Arrangement adds to questions over potential conflicts of interest in the legal profession

The magic circle law firm’s senior partner has long held ambitions for a transatlantic merger

Merger between US and UK firms would create a legal giant with almost 4,000 lawyers worldwide

Plus, Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling’s transatlantic pact and western banks’ China struggles

My husband doesn’t want a court process but I worry mediation won’t be legally binding

The magic circle law firm’s senior partner has long held ambitions for a transatlantic merger

We examine how senior in-house lawyers are adapting to new business needs in a monthly series that culminates on September 20, alongside the FT list of top in-house lawyers. This week: geopolitical upheaval

Companies seek chief legal officers with an ability to assess geopolitical risk

Arrangement adds to questions over potential conflicts of interest in the legal profession

Former New York police officer allegedly helped track down victim

New round of lawsuits brings scandal back to fore and poses fresh financial risks for tabloid media groups

The billionaire founder of Autonomy was extradited to face trial for fraud

Consultants say blanket portrayals of ‘toxic’ culture at scandal-hit UK business lobby group ‘not accurate’

Chief executives are vulnerable to a current push for systemic shifts in climate policy and transparency

Many of industry’s biggest names refuse to supply information on corporate governance and custody of customer assets

More challenges to boards on diversity and corporate values expected during Japan’s annual meeting season

Groups are still getting a resounding thumbs-down from continent’s regulators

Taro Kono, Japan’s digital minister, says elections could be targeted by ‘malicious elements’

Local authorities confirm their files were left in unsecured cloud-based data storage system

Draft law could do ‘lasting damage’ to competitiveness, say five chief executives

Proxima Fusion aims to build complex device to generate emissions-free power by fusing atoms

Susie Wolff heads a female academy aiming to bring more women to F1. Plus: Teams building up cutting-edge facilities amid cost cap; online subscription apps boost traction and revenues for the sport; Ford partners with Red Bull in return to Grand Prix; and an interview with Zhou Guanyu, China’s first F1 driver

Technology is changing too rapidly for us to assume that the next generation will fully understand it

The outstanding trends in the legal sector, plus our key ranking of top innovative law firms

Generalists often do much better in life. But there’s still something beautiful about finding your vocation

A new eco-friendly boat offers the ideal way to tour between waterside hotels, fish restaurants, art galleries and saunas

It is precisely the inconvenient stuff that gives life meaning and richness

The idea that we can predict the collapse of societies is hotly contested — but that doesn’t mean we can’t learn from it

Generalists often do much better in life. But there’s still something beautiful about finding your vocation

Situated inside a much-maligned cultural landmark, a new restaurant is very much to this critic’s taste

Gil Dezer -- king of ultra-luxury towers -- thinks he’s immune to the city’s boom-and-bust condo market

The idea that we can predict the collapse of societies is hotly contested — but that doesn’t mean we can’t learn from it

A constellation of characters shines in the Booker-nominated author’s caustic campus-set tale of aspiring artists

From fleeing war and revolution to life as an émigré in the US, Fiona Maddocks profiles the much-loved Russian composer

Three books — including a novel — overturn assumptions about how politics, economics and science should combat global warming

Jen Beagin’s new novel is a brilliant satire of therapy-speak and wellness

A new eco-friendly boat offers the ideal way to tour between waterside hotels, fish restaurants, art galleries and saunas

An insider guide to some of the most stylish places to stay in the City of Light

Retro-futurist glitz and astonishing views of the city are drawing the fashion crowd to a once unfashionable quartier

Boho vibes, quirky charm and DJ sets await you at this hipster haven

From the hillsides of Benahavís to Marbella’s Golden Mile

Alluring new stays from Kraków to Porto

The London Design Biennale will address real-world problems with 3D showstoppers and virtual virtuosity

Meet the location wranglers who persuade homeowners to open their doors to film crews for TV shows such as ‘Succession’