An early blow to DLA Piper's 2027 trainee retantion rate. A budding lawfluencer who broadcast her qualms about the corporate world has quit her training contract two weeks in. Inês Pinheiro received ...

No, no Like. No Like at all. A warrant is out for the arrest of a Texas lawyer accused of cyberstalking a partner understood to work at Latham & Watkins, and an associate. ‘V1’, a partner in New York, ...

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 ...

Kennedys has apologised and reported itself to the SRA after it accidentally revealed the names of dozens of people who had registered for updates on the Church of England’s redress scheme for victims ...

It was all perfectly fair: for example, each vac schemer had a role to play in the sedan chair task. Freshfields has been accused of playing favourites on its vacation schemes, with sources alleging ...

Hemp juice might have been ok. A law student has been jailed for attempting to smuggle £150k of cannabis through Edinburgh Airport. In August 2024, Sage-Ahliea Gold, 25, a student at the University of ...

The SRA will take no action against a Fieldfisher associate who was found to have deliberately lied in her account of being sexually assaulted by a colleague. The regulator was investigating the ...

A former partner at Scottish firm Brodies has avoided a jail term after pleading guilty to engaging in grossly offensive, indecent, obscene or menacing conversations about the sexual abuse of children ...

It's all about the prompts. A barrister and her solicitors have been condemned by a judge for their “appalling professional misbehaviour” after they cited non-existent cases. Sarah Forey of 3 Bolt ...

A vacation scheme is traditionally a time for day drinking and menial tasks, but candidates on Stephenson Harwood’s recent programme said theirs was marred by a terrifying partner. RollOnFriday ...

A 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!” Suleman’s firm, ...