"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 ...

LegalX, Spectre, Balan, overturning the established legal order. An unqualified lawyer with a murky client and an optimistic view of his worth is advertising his firm’s services for sums which put the ...

The former chair of the Criminal Bar Association is facing allegations of sexual harassment by four women. Jo Sidhu KC was the criminal bar chief when the barristers went on strike over legal aid fees ...

How the judge saw it. A law student has been convicted for an online rant against England and Arsenal footballer Bukayo Saka, which included calling him a "monkey" and using the N-word. Suhel Ali, who ...

Kapdi, done over by those pesky Gupta Bros. Dentons has said it is co-operating with South African authorities as they investigate historic allegations that public money was used unlawfully. South ...

The President of the Hampshire Law Society has been removed from his role after he was targeted in a child predator sting. He is also no longer employed by Southampton firm Trethowans, where he was a ...

Hogan Lovells is shuttering its offices in Sydney, Johannesburg and Warsaw, for "strategic" reasons. The office closures mean that the firm will no longer have any bases in Australia, South Africa and ...

Fulcher (centre, top) just likes a giggle. A legal costs expert who appears to thrive on provoking lily-livered progressives has done it again with a flurry of extraordinary social media posts ...