Corporate partner Joseph Lee has re-joined UK firm Simmons & Simmons from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft's Hong Kong Office. It is the firm's second such hire in a month, following the appointment of capital markets partner David Neuville. | 9yrs

The Hong Kong office of global law firm K&L Gates has hired Carolyn Sng as a partner in the corporate practice. She joins K&L Gates from Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. | 9yrs

Corporate law firm Reed Smith has announced Lucy Dillon as its new chief knowledge officer and Steven Agnoli as its chief information officer; both started this month. | 9yrs

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy has hired Clifford Chance aviation and shipping partner Nick Swinburne as a partner with the Transportation and Space Group. He will co-lead Milbank's London-based practice with James Cameron. | 9yrs

Clyde & Co has appointed Sally Sfeir-Tait as a partner in its Regulatory and Compliance team. Ms Sfeir-Tait specialises in the financial services sector and will be based in the firm's Abu Dhabi office, servicing the wider MENA region. | 9yrs

Apple has revoked Monster's authority to make licensed accessories for its devices, which Monster claims is retribution for the lawsuit it has brought against Apple unit Beats Electronics LLC. | 9yrs

Singapore-based RHTLaw Taylor Wessing has taken on Anthony Chey and Vernon Voon as partners in the firm's litigation and dispute resolution practice from Tan Kok Quan Partnership. | 9yrs

Business law firm Hall & Wilcox has hired an additional 37 team members, all coming from Sparke Helmore. They join a senior associate and five partners who moved to the firm in April. | 9yrs

The family of Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazilian man shot dead by police in London in July 2005 after being mistaken for a terror suspect, are challenging his case in court in Europe. | 9yrs

The Unite union is funding cases for 17 former and current employees of unidentified British airlines who claim to have been poisoned by toxic cabin air. | 9yrs

London-based law firm Leigh Day is in the initial stages of gathering clients for a group action against Foxtons with an ex-Clifford Chance lawyer likely to be the first claimant. | 9yrs

Francisco Palomo Tejada, who defended former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt against charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, was shot at least 12 times while driving in Guatemala City. | 9yrs

Cooley LLP, the Palo Alto law firm that represents Silicon Valley grandees such as Google, eBay, Facebook, and LinkedIn, has advised music startup Jukely on its launch in the UK. | 9yrs

South Korean law firm Bae, Kim and Lee has set up an office in Hong Kong as part of its expansion plans. | 9yrs

Brown Rudnick has bolstered its Paris team with the hire of partners from French firms De Gaulle Fleurance & Associés and August and Debouzy. | 9yrs

Sweeping powers by the UK government to retain phone and internet data are being challenged in court. | 9yrs

An Italian court has banned unlicensed car-sharing services such as those offered by Uber throughout the country, in another setback for the fast-growing US car service. | 9yrs