It's.....not how Lunt's hotel stay looked. Coleen Rooney's solicitor has defended his luxury accomodation during the so-called Wagatha Christie trial. Paul Lunt of ...

Starmer time! At Ward Hadaway. Even if the world is burning there are some engagements a Prime Minister just can’t skip. Remembrance Sundays, coronations, UN summits - and meetings of Ward Hadaway ...

HHJ Davis entertains a subordinate. A judge has been reprimanded for sharing jokes, anecdotes and moral lessons with a court employee. The staff member claimed that when she worked with His Honour ...

Long hours and “ridiculous” client demands are the biggest factors harming solicitors’ mental health, a survey for the City of London Law Society suggests. The survey is still open, so if you’re a ...

OC NQs - behind the pouting, there's genuine joy at being kept on. As the final trainee retention confirmations trickle in, Osborne Clarke announced it is keeping hold of 86% of its qualifying ...

Davis Polk is raising salaries for its second-year trainee solicitors in London to £70k (up from £65k), making them the highest paid trainees in the land. The firm has also upped first year trainee ...

'Can I take you to Ikea? I love you.' The SDT has published its judgment ordering former Bird & Bird partner Takeshige Sugimoto to be banned from the profession for five years. Sugimoto was head of a ...

"Not only did they refuse your offer, but they reported you to the police. And you've been charged." A solicitor has been struck off after he was convicted of blackmailing a fellow director. Michael ...

A tycoon has extracted even more cash from Dechert thanks to a former partner who was allegedly involved in hacking his emails. The US-headquartered firm paid Farhad Azima £3m earlier this year to ...

A barrister who was sent to prison for raping a woman he met on Tinder, has been barred by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. In September 2022, Robin Jacobs was found guilty of one count of rape ...

Freshfields is the latest firm to have a rebrand, ditching 'Bruckhaus Deringer', to emerge as...(drum roll) Freshfields. The Freshfields name was adopted at the turn of the 19th century, after a ...

I went to the opening of Sael last week, Jason Atherton’s new London spot. ‘Sael’ is old English for ‘season’, apparently - better than Ye Olde Rose and Crown or The Fisted Badger, I suppose. And ...