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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A solicitor has been given a 12 month suspension, suspended for two years, for posting offensive tweets about Covid, Jews, transgender people and speed cameras. The SRA prosecuted Jonathan Lea, who ...

A Senior Partner spots a woman in the boardroom (law firms circa 2010). RollOnFriday's In-house Lawyer Survey is underway, and so far the majority of respondents have said a panel firm's approach to ...

APC's launch is official (those are celebratory fireworks, not explosions). Ashurst will merge with US firm Perkins Coie, after both partnerships voted “overwhelmingly” to combine. Ashurst's merger ...

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 ...

Osborne Clarke is a pretty happy firm. It has been for years, really. It's gone from having six offices in three countries to 20 offices over nine countries, covering Belgium, Germany, Italy, France, ...

How it might look: Bruce wipes out the dinosaurs at Kennedys. A law firm’s Senior Partner has told his partnership it needs to tackle a “pattern” of bullying and sexual harassment by senior levels of ...