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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On the commute with Justin 'Le White' Le Bond. Dentons has stepped down an Australian partner after he was convicted of driving while loaded on cocaine. Employment lawyer Justin Le Blond was motoring ...

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, ...

They learned. They grew. Now they exit. The government is piloting the use of AI legal assistants, in order to tackle the backlog of cases in the Crown court. And the SRA will play a key role in the ...

The interview process was thorough. An abusive law firm partner who escaped a professional ban despite bullying, sexually harassing and humiliating junior female staff may yet be struck off after the ...

A&O Shearman is slimming its workforce further by transferring business services staff to an outsourcing company. Following the merger of Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling, the enlarged firm has ...

No more computers for you. A paedophile who worked at Gateley has been jailed. Gavin Hough was a member of the listed law firm’s IT team when he was arrested in 2024. Police raided Hough’s family home ...

Winston Taylor has officially launched, after the combination of Taylor Wessing UK and Chicago-headquartered Winston & Strawn, went live this week. It was revealed that the firms were in talks last ...

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 ...

Milbank has hiked associate pay to between $235k (NQs) and $455k (8PQE), sparking juicy pay rises for its lawyers in the UK and at other US firms. Cravath Swaine & Moore has traditionally been the ...