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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Soophia and her dad at court. A barrister has been suspended from practice for helping his daughter, a struck-off solicitor, to dodge a ban which prohibits her from working at court. Soophia Khan was ...

A barrister who engaged in flirtatious banter with junior female colleagues has been disbarred. Michael Griffiths, then the Head of the Legal Services Department for Gloucestershire Police, was ...

Fighting the good fight, X-style. A legal recruiter who works with dozens of the UK’s top law firms has said he regrets using social media to insult people and to express his desire for them to die, ...

An office head who trapped a woman in a wheelchair on the dancefloor and joked about another's virginity at his firm's annual conference has been expelled from the legal profession. Darren Shaw, a ...

Brandsmiths, the IP litigation boutique which was criticised by a judge for threatening to report solicitors to the regulator unless they did its bidding, is looking to fight back in the Court of ...

Getting pogged down in Brazil. Pogust Goodhead's biggest case involves seeking justice for the victims of the Mariana dam collapse, but staff working on the case in Brazil have told RollOnFriday they ...