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 ...

It's wet work, but someone's got to do it. A Holland & Knight partner has let slip that his firm is thick with hitmen. “What a neat graphic to show the depth of our over 70 maritime legal assassins”, ...

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 ...

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 BigLaw, Trump made ...

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 ...

[The spokesperson for DLA Piper] said: "Look, fuck off, you know full well that he's here for business development and that he adds nothing other than the ability to let us get our asses into a load ...

An ex-Dechert 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 solicitor at Dechert in 2017, ...

Two lawyers who cited fake cases invented by AI have managed to avoid contempt of court proceedings. But Mr Justice Johnson and the President of the King’s Bench Division, Dame Victoria Sharp, warned ...

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 ...

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 ...

A summary of the SDT's ruling. 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 ...

A solicitor who acted for a victim of the Post Office Horizon scandal has threatened her with court action for not paying legal fees he claims he is owed.. Nick Gould won plaudits in 2021 when he ...