A former head of legal at BNP Paribas has been fined £15,000 by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal after admitting that calling his bosses “c***s” and his underlings “mad” and “autistic” breached ...

An aspiring barrister has become a Lord and is inviting people to apply to become his knights. Christopher Pitt is a student member of Lincoln's Inn on the bar course, but after acquiring the Lordship ...

Now to get the right shade of green ink. Slater and Gordon in Australia has been thrown into chaos this week after an email was sent to all its 900+ staff attaching a spreadsheet of salaries and ...

Trowers & Hamlins was traditionally a rather genteel, laces and braces outfit with a reputation for real estate, housing and public sector work. Its relatively small private client department seemed ...

The important thing is to keep it buried deep inside, so it can fester properly. Gen Z lawyers require "more handholding", a firm has said. US firm Gibson Dunn is hiring a professional support lawyer ...

Linklaters has set exams for its Artificial Intelligence programmes, to assess how much help they can provide to lawyers. The 'LinksAI English law benchmark' tests are designed to check if AI "can ...

The business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, has been accused of falsely claiming to be a solicitor, before becoming an MP. Reynolds started as a trainee at Addleshaw Goddard's Manchester office in ...

A judge has queried the rates charged by Jones Day, calling them “excessive”. The US firm’s London office was acting for the owner of a block of student flats in a dispute with the project’s builders, ...

The collapse of listed law group RBG has been "shameful" said insiders, who described how one retired partner was so angry at the disintegration of his firm that he went back into the office to scream ...

Baker Botts can trace its roots back to Texas in 1840. The oil boom in the 1900s resulted in Daniel Plainview-esque entrepreneurs coming to the lone star state. The dramatic economic growth meant ...

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