Orange is the new Bar. The Bar Council’s poster girl for social mobility has been suspended from practice after she was found guilty of helping a gangster take revenge in a turf war. Samreen Akhtar ...

Sneak peek inside Atlantic House. Hogan Lovells Cadwalader has sent its London staff home for at least a fortnight after the aircon broke and the office temperature rocketed. The air conditioning ...

Suing Fender and Yamaha with no cash is an expensive gig. Pogust Goodhead’s client has been ordered to pay £1.5m in costs after the firm refused to admit for three years that her claim had no funding.

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 ...

The Crown Prosecution Service has apologised after citing AI-hallucinated cases in its submissions to court. CPS lawyers outsourced their brain to AI while responding to an appeal against extradition ...

Over recent weeks, the degree to which law firms have provided their people with satisfactory pay, career development, work/life balance and the office/amenities has become clear thanks to the ...

When Theodore Goddard merged with Addleshaw Booth & Co in May 2003 there was much speculation as to whether or not the two firms were suitable bedfellows. TG was a small, City practice with a big ...

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 ...

It's all being done very discreetly. Slaughter and May is clamping down on lawyers who aren’t turning up to the office by tracking when they enter the building, and sharing their attendance data with ...

Axiom Ince staff have been left to fend for themselves as the firm tells clients it is closing and police launch an investigation. Departing partners have informed clients that the business is winding ...

'I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can do that.' Baker McKenzie is laying off up to a tenth of its global business services workforce as part of a reorganisation driven in part by its increased use of AI.

Freshfields has begun a redundancy process affecting paralegals, ROF has learned. Last week paralegals in the firm’s Manchester office were called into a meeting titled "Important Update", where ...