South Korea
The government and Democratic Party agreed to consider about US$1.4 billion (2 trillion won) ($1.5 billion) for urgent firefighting investment as local governments bear most costs.
Reported by The Korea Herald, Yonhap News (English)
United States
Democrats' midterm victory puts them on track to control the Senate in January, prompting speculation over whether Justices Alito and Thomas will retire.
Reported by Above the Law, Buenos Aires Times, Courthouse News Service
South Korea
Prosecutors ask for prison terms for three former Moon Jae-in officials accused of leaking THAAD operations to activists opposed to the system.
Reported by Yonhap News (English), Bar & Bench
South Korea
Seoul's unification ministry says Kim Song-nam's Beijing visit was primarily meant to share a Chinese party plenum's results and maintain high-level exchanges.
Reported by Yonhap News (English), The Korea Herald
South Korea
Seoul's unification ministry says Kim Song-nam's China trip appeared meant to share plenum results and keep high-level ties, while it watches other possibilities.
Reported by Yonhap News (English), The Korea Herald
Singapore
Acer co-founder Stan Shih was picked to represent Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te due to China's insistence that the island is part of its territory, and not a separate nation.
CNA
Nigeria
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will open the Antalya Leaders’ Summit. At the same time, UN Secretary-General António Guterres is expected to address it, according to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) programme. The post COP31: Delegates warned of more transport delays as…
Premium Times
International
Nvidia's independent directors have hired Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, with litigation partner Joon H. Kim, a former acting US attorney in Manhattan, leading an inquiry into reports that Chinese intelligence targeted the chief executive. A shareholder class action is already on file.
Reported by The Korea Herald, Courthouse News Service, Taipei Times
India
Hammurabi & Solomon Partners has added Naresh Arora to lead its international desk, the latest in a run of lateral partner hires at Indian firms that includes a disputes lawyer at JSA and a corporate team at Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas.
Reported by Law.asia, Bar & Bench
United Kingdom
Keir Monteith KC, founding chair of the Criminal Bar Association's new Black Barristers' Committee, asked how there is still no black judge in the Court of Appeal or the Supreme Court, and called on chambers, law firms and judges to act.
Reported by Law Society Gazette, Australasian Lawyer
South Korea
The regulator's examiners recommend conditional approval of the share swap that would put Naver Pay and the Upbit exchange under one roof, after assessing a won-stablecoin market that does not yet exist. A decision is expected by the end of the year.
Reported by The Korea Herald, Yonhap News (English)
International
A retail investor says Nvidia and Jensen Huang misled the market about the chief executive's relationship with a former Megaspeed executive suspected of working for Chinese intelligence. The company's shares lost about US$190 billion in value on Monday.
Reported by Taipei Times, Courthouse News Service
United States
The plaintiffs say Suno trained on protected recordings and lets users generate a voice "readily identifiable" as Presley's, citing nearly fifty examples and 859 works in all. Eminem's publisher filed a parallel suit the same day.
Reported by Canadian Lawyer, Courthouse News Service
Updates from leading law firms · Published by the firms
Japan · 10 Nov 2026
Anderson Mori & Tomotsune announced plans for offices in Dallas and Houston and holds Tier 1 in ten of The Legal 500's 2026 Japan tables.
Indonesia · 10 Nov 2026
SSEK Law Firm ranks in ten Legal 500 practice areas in Indonesia, and Conventus Law reported its recognition in the IFLR1000 2026 rankings.
Hong Kong · 10 Nov 2026
Tanner De Witt holds a Tier 1 Legal 500 ranking for restructuring and published on arbitration, employment and cyber security this autumn.
China · 10 Nov 2026
The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2026 ranks Dacheng Law Offices in ten PRC practice tables, with Tier 2 placings in four of them.
India · 10 Nov 2026
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co was named on Persistent Systems' $451 million QIP and cited 2026 directory rankings on its website.
South Korea · 9 Nov 2026
Kim & Chang co-hosted two seminars with foreign firms, signed a cybersecurity pact and announced 2026 awards from Chambers and Benchmark Litigation.
In the press
Germany
Compound Law, an AI‐native firm based in Berlin, and co-founded by the former General Counsel of Zenjob, has hired Marc Schuba, a White & Case ...
Artificial Lawyer
Indonesia
Tiantai Law Firm has hired Indonesian lawyer Muhammad Karnova as head of its Indonesia practice and managing partner, based in Jakarta, following the launch of its Jakarta office in June 2026. Tiantai said that Karnova would lead its Indonesia practice team and “provide legal services for Chinese enterprises’…
Law.asia
South Korea
What are the odds of the taxi driver picking you up at Havana’s international airport telling you that she is Korean, and that her grandfather came to Cuba about 100 years ago? When Joseph Juhn, a Korean American lawyer from New York, arrived in Havana in December 2015, he had no inkling what would unfold in the next…
The Korea Herald
Australia
Judge notes unmeritorious defence, delayed compliance with orders, ‘mealy-mouthed’ apology
Australasian Lawyer
Hong Kong
Stephenson Harwood has expanded its commercial litigation team with the addition of Nicholas Lum as a partner in Hong Kong. Lum joins from Hong Kong’s Accounting and Financial Reporting Council (AFRC), the independent regulator of the accounting profession. He spent more than four years there and most recently served…
Law.asia
India
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