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 ...

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 ...

A “brilliantly successful’ KC who was disbarred for lying about studying at the University of Oxford - and who also claimed to be a really good cricketer - can return to the legal profession after ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

They learned. They grew. Now they exit. The government is piloting the use of AI legal assistants, in order to tackle the backlog of cases in the Crown court. And the SRA will play a key role in the ...

A criminal defence solicitor has been banned from interviewing job candidates and holding disciplinary meetings after he was found to have bullied and harassed five junior female staff by clicking his ...

"If you build it, they will come. Or go. Some of them will go." Around 20% of Broadfield's UK partners have left the firm, RollOnFriday understands. The filing history at Companies House shows that ...

A former TLT employee has been barred from the legal profession after he sent "inappropriate" items and messages to female junior staff. John Enright worked as a facilities assistant in TLT's ...

A Senior Partner spots a woman in the boardroom (law firms circa 2010). RollOnFriday's In-house Lawyer Survey is underway, and so far the majority of respondents have said a panel firm's approach to ...

APC's launch is official (those are celebratory fireworks, not explosions). Ashurst will merge with US firm Perkins Coie, after both partnerships voted “overwhelmingly” to combine. Ashurst's merger ...