The SRA contemplates what it did wrong to wind up in detention. The Legal Services Board has sanctioned the Solicitors Regulation Authority following its failure to prevent the £60m Axiom Ince fiasco ...

Following jail convictionA former law firm partner has been struck off the roll, following a rape conviction. Shah Syed Rashid Masood Sahib was a law firm manager and partner at Syeds Solicitors in ...

Law firms and even the Law Society have been left floundering after the Supreme Court unanimously decided that biological sex determines who is a man and who is a woman. The judgment in For Women ...

Mocked by BigLawA solicitor whose philosophy is “plenty of smiles” said he was inspired to set up his own firm after he was ridiculed by his colleagues for being too nice. Harry “Just Ask Harry!” ...

RealpolitikDonald Trump has made - and withdrawn - an executive order against Paul, Weiss which aimed to prevent the US firm from doing any work with the federal government. The US President made a ...

CMS has taken “decisive action” against an HR employee who posted offensive tweets about Islam. Dan Cooper was an International Senior HR Business Partner for the firm and described himself in his ...

Quiet part out loudThere are good and bad gen z lawyers just as they were in my day (I’m a millennial so apparently old now). But what’s different is (1) the inability to take feedback; (2) the poor ...

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 trainee has been banned from law for lying about why she requested annual leave. Steph Merrill told Shropshire firm Lanyon Bowdler that she was taking a relative to a hospital appointment, when ...

Unfair interrogationA barrister is suing Cambridge University for “substantial damages” after he failed his PhD. Jacob Meagher was informed in April 2023 that he had flunked the final oral examination ...

When she took his spaceAn Eversheds Sutherland partner used his car to trap a pregnant associate in the office car park when she took his space - and then demanded a written apology from her. Parking ...

SabotageOrganisers were forced to abandon a remote legal conference after attendees bombarded it with porn. An insider claimed that World Law Group's IP seminar may have been targeted by anti-Ukraine ...