"Not only did they refuse your offer, but they reported you to the police. And you've been charged." A solicitor has been struck off after he was convicted of blackmailing a fellow director. Michael ...

A tycoon has extracted even more cash from Dechert thanks to a former partner who was allegedly involved in hacking his emails. The US-headquartered firm paid Farhad Azima £3m earlier this year to ...

A barrister who was sent to prison for raping a woman he met on Tinder, has been barred by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. In September 2022, Robin Jacobs was found guilty of one count of rape ...

Freshfields is the latest firm to have a rebrand, ditching 'Bruckhaus Deringer', to emerge as...(drum roll) Freshfields. The Freshfields name was adopted at the turn of the 19th century, after a ...

I went to the opening of Sael last week, Jason Atherton’s new London spot. ‘Sael’ is old English for ‘season’, apparently - better than Ye Olde Rose and Crown or The Fisted Badger, I suppose. And ...