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 ...

A pooch which narrowly avoided getting royally squished when it ran in front of Prince Andrew’s car belongs to a Howard Kennedy partner, RollOnFriday can reveal. Real estate partner Julian Hindmarsh ...

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RealpolitikDonald Trump has made - and withdrawn - an executive order against Paul, Weiss which aimed to prevent the US firm from doing any work with the federal government.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

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 ...

Fans of the White (lines) BookThe thin line between the high stakes of corporate law and the highs of extracurricular enterprise was never meant to be taken this literally. It’s a slippery slope when ...

US firm Goodwin Procter is paying 3PQE lawyers in its London office a base salary of £240k and 6PQEs £325k - excluding bonuses - according to a salary chart leaked to RollOnFriday. The firm circulated ...

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 ...