The 2004 tie-up between Pinsents and Masons caught very few people by surprise - both had been falling behind national rivals DLA and Eversheds and were desperate to increase their national coverage.

Yours, with change from a tenner. Listed law group RBG Holdings has suspended trading of its shares this week, and indicated that it is nearing a declaration of insolvency. [Update: it's now happened, ...

A solicitor suspended from practice for a year for tricking an 82-year-old farmer has published a column bemoaning the state of ethics in the legal profession. In an opinion piece headed “Ethics 101” ...

Understandable if you get Brussels, but this is a knock for the Netherlands and UAE. Freshfields trainees have accused the firm of giving two sisters in their cohort plum secondments because they're ...

"Don't worry Mr K, we agree that because of X, the time you made Y use a J to T, while shouting R, should not be disclosed to Z." The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal will conduct a review into its ...

"It works perfectly! Maybe too perfectly." DLA Piper has told dozens of its IT staff they are at risk of redundancy. Sources told RollOnFriday that over 150 people have been told they may lose their ...

Two law firm staff have been banned from the profession for dealing drugs to their friends after they were caught with cocaine-measuring paraphernalia in a police raid. Jordan Heeley, 31, and ...

An Australian lawyer has been referred to a complaints body after an AI program he used inserted bogus cases into his submissions. The lawyer (not named in the judgment), was representing a client in ...

Shakespeare Martineau has come bottom of RollOnFriday’s Best Law Firms to Work At 2025 survey, making it officially the unhappiest firm in the UK. Staff at ShakeMart gave it the lowest overall score ...

Kirkland & Ellis is a megabucks US firm which brings its largesse to its London office, pegging pay to the dollar, and a very large amount of dollar it is, too. Highly-regarded for private equity, ...

Back in the day, Clydes, along with Holman Fenwick & Willan and Ince & Co, was traditionally one of the three great shipping firms in the City. This wasn't necessarily a good thing: collision work was ...

Megabucks-paying US firm, which placed 9th in the RollOnFriday Best Law Firms to Work At 2022.