A “brilliantly successful’ KC who was disbarred for lying about studying at the University of Oxford - and who also claimed to be a really good cricketer - can return to the legal profession after ...

Partners are going AWOL and failing to adequately supervise their juniors, clients have complained in RollOnFriday's In-House Lawyer Survey 2026. A GC in financial services said that firms should ...

Steer clear of football chat with the HLC duck at the launch party. Hogan Lovells and US firm Cadwalader's merger went live on Wednesday this week, creating the law behemoth Hogan Lovells Cadwalader ...

The good, the bad and the merger. Ashurst’s merger with US firm Perkins Coie has completed in what is regarded internally as not just a financial win, but a coup in the fight for the hearts and minds ...

McLeod refusing to accept delivery in Australia, a gremlin in the software, and Gould. The Solicitors Regulation Authority has referred the first two solicitors for prosecution in connection with the ...

The CEO of the group including Shakespeare Martineau, which installed a transparent piano in its office lobby, has been suspended by the company. Sarah Walker Smith is the chief executive of Ampa, the ...

Ashurst advise on the €518 million project bond and on the €90 million financing for Autostrada A3 ...

Back in the 90s Ashurst, as it then was, was seen as pretty much the best firm at which to work in the City. The cliché was that it punched above its weight, with Magic Circle quality but mid-sized ...

The transgender lawyer who has accused Father Ted scribe Graham Linehan of transphobia and is suing him for harassment was once convicted of affray for threatening a man with a golf club, as well as ...

'I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can do that.' Baker McKenzie is laying off up to a tenth of its global business services workforce as part of a reorganisation driven in part by its increased use of AI.

OC staff to be in the office 'more often than not' or they'll be paid 'less money than others' Osborne Clarke is making it mandatory for staff to attend the office three times a week, in order to be ...

Shakespeare Martineau has come bottom of RollOnFriday’s Best Law Firms to Work At 2025 survey, making it officially the unhappiest firm in the UK. Staff at ShakeMart gave it the lowest overall score ...