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 ...

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 ...

The death of a Pinsent Masons partner has ignited a debate on stress and work/life balance in private practice. Vanessa Ford, known professionally as Vanessa Heap, had been working 18-hour days and ...

Bombshell evidence has emerged in the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry this week showing that Womble Bond Dickinson advised its client to "suppress" incriminating information "in a way that looks ...

Baker McKenzie has terminated a lawyer’s employment after discovering that he has been accused of sexual misconduct by a colleague at his former firm. Stefano Mariani is due in court in Hong Kong to ...

An employment judge has been accused of peppering a ruling with inaccurate and nonexistent quotes from other judgments. Scottish Employment Judge Sandy Kemp handed down his keenly-awaited judgment ...

Baker McKenzie has "parted ways" with Dr Habib Al Mulla, its most senior partner in the United Arab Emirates, after a RollOnFriday investigation found he was using Twitter to preach to his 61,000 ...

Jones Day has been hit by a cyber attack, with hackers posting client documents online. The US firm confirmed in a statement that it was targeted by a "cyber 'phishing' incident in which ‌an ...

A woman who drafted a sex slave contract for Jeffrey Epstein while she trained to be a lawyer at Clifford Chance has identified herself as one of the predator's victims. 'V' interned at the firm from ...

The SRA has authorised the country's first purely AI-based firm to provide legal services. While many firms now use AI to support their business, it is the first time an all-AI platform has been ...