A solicitor suspended from practice for a year for tricking an 82-year-old farmer has published a column bemoaning the state of ethics in the legal profession. In an opinion piece headed “Ethics 101” ...

Understandable if you get Brussels, but this is a knock for the Netherlands and UAE. Freshfields trainees have accused the firm of giving two sisters in their cohort plum secondments because they're ...

"Don't worry Mr K, we agree that because of X, the time you made Y use a J to T, while shouting R, should not be disclosed to Z." The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal will conduct a review into its ...

An Australian lawyer has been referred to a complaints body after an AI program he used inserted bogus cases into his submissions. The lawyer (not named in the judgment), was representing a client in ...

Yours, with change from a tenner. Listed law group RBG Holdings has suspended trading of its shares this week, and indicated that it is nearing a declaration of insolvency. [Update: it's now happened, ...

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 ...

A barrister standing trial for racially aggravated assault has denied drunkenly attacking her neighbour, and contends that in fact she was the victim. Scarlett Milligan, a barrister at 39 Essex ...

"It works perfectly! Maybe too perfectly." DLA Piper has told dozens of its IT staff they are at risk of redundancy. Sources told RollOnFriday that over 150 people have been told they may lose their ...

Next on the sue list: Thames Water. Pogust Goodhead became Pongust Goodhead last week after a stink forced the firm to vacate its new headquarters. The group litigation specialist had only just moved ...

Winner of the Golden Turd 2018 - but it's improved since then, placing 27th out of 61 firms in 2022.

Back in the day, legacy Beachcroft went through a phase of desperately trying to reinvent itself – it dropped the “Wansbroughs” from its name and moved into flashy new offices in Bristol (“rather like ...

Give it a month, maybe Adam & Adam will be the ones laughing. A trainee has been banned from law for lying about why she requested annual leave. Steph Merrill told Shropshire firm Lanyon Bowdler that ...