The Legal Services Board has sanctioned the Solicitors Regulation Authority following its failure to prevent the £60m Axiom Ince fiasco - but also complimented the SRA for making good progress already ...

A former law firm partner has been struck off the roll, following a rape conviction. Shah Syed Rashid Masood Sahib was a law firm manager and partner at Syeds Solicitors in Birmingham. The court ...

Law firms and even the Law Society have been left floundering after the Supreme Court unanimously decided that biological sex determines who is a man and who is a woman. The judgment in For Women ...

A solicitor whose philosophy is “plenty of smiles” said he was inspired to set up his own firm after he was ridiculed by his colleagues for being too nice. Harry “Just Ask Harry!” Suleman’s firm, ...

One of the world’s largest legal recruiting companies has deleted all references to its commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, ROF can reveal. Major, Lindsey & Africa has quietly removed reams ...

The body which oversees legal regulators has raised “serious concerns” about the operation of both the Solicitors Regulation Authority and the Bar Standards Board. The Legal Services Board's annual ...

Your firm has a DEI team: lose 5 points, move back 7 squares, don't pass Go. Trump’s US administration has targeted 20 major law firms, demanding that they prove their diversity, equity and inclusion ...

CMS has taken “decisive action” against an HR employee who posted offensive tweets about Islam. Dan Cooper was an International Senior HR Business Partner for the firm and described himself in his ...

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 ...

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, ...

"Sorry Sheikh, I've got some other prospective clients here who aren't accustomed to waiting." A Penningtons Manches partner advised the regime of deposed Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina ...