A law graduate who got slightly ahead of herself and practised as a solicitor while she was still unqualified has been banned from the legal profession. Kashine Taylor joined Derbyshire County Council ...

A German Fieldfisher partner has apologised after he suggested that a Nazi-regime architect was a role model to lawyers. Rüdiger Litten gave his new book Capital Market Law the tagline, “Beauty lies ...

'That dog won't hunt!'A judge has thrown out Donald Trump’s Executive Order targeting US firm WilmerHale, and doused the president in gumbo while he was at it. In his high-handed campaign against ...

A barrister has been reprimanded by a judge for appearing at a remote hearing without trousers. When Shrewsbury Crown Court connected to the barrister via video link, all the court could see was a ...

Has 'a good nature' apparentlyA former partner at Scottish firm Brodies has avoided a jail term after pleading guilty to engaging in grossly offensive, indecent, obscene or menacing conversations ...

A former Herbert Smith Freehills partner and law professor has published a dystopian novel set in a climate change apocalypse. The Chronicles of Kaimakla is a significant departure from Ravi Tennekoon ...

Claim stretched to seven-figuresAn ex- Decher t solicitor has failed in her claim that a loose office door handle caused her serious injury when it hit her on the head. Simish Chuhan qualified as a ...

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 ...

RollOnFriday's In-house Lawyer Survey 2025 is underway, revealing clients are split on the approach their panel firms should take on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. The survey is still open, but so ...

Superlawyer!A conveyancing solicitor has been struck off the Roll for working three jobs at the same time remotely, and billing two of the firms for the same period. Belinda Sarkodie joined ...

Osborne Clarke is a 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, Hong ...