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 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 ...

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 ...

Ashurst advise on the €518 million project bond and on the €90 million financing for Autostrada A3 ...

At least no-one's overreacting. 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 transgender lawyer who has accused Father Ted scribe Graham Linehan of transphobia and is suing him for harassment was once convicted of affray for threatening a man with a golf club, as well as ...

The death of a Pinsent Masons partner has ignited a debate on stress and work/life balance in private practice. Vanessa Ford, known professionally as Vanessa Heap, had been working 18-hour days and ...

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 ...

The reviews are in: 'From start to finish Ravi takes you through a story that intertwines a series of twists and turns.' Life has imitated art after a barrister who wrote a novel about a rule-breaking ...

An exemplary use of LinkedIn. A lawyer at Perkins Coie has said she hopes the US firm's merger with Ashurst will improve her situation after she was accused of having an affair with her supervising ...