A barrister has been reprimanded by the Bar Standards Board for letting out his inside voice when he was talking to probation staff, who were his clients. Timothy Compton, who was called to the bar in ...

Romantic sunset drinks: £6.50. How the honeymoon might have looked, if the ruse hadn't been discovered. A Walker Morris staffer has been banned from the legal profession after she kept the donations ...

Law firms are scrambling to asses the impact of a bombshell ruling that determined that non-authorised employees of law firms can only support a solicitor in conducting litigation, and that they ...

Magistrates have commended a defendant who represented himself for being "as good as any solicitor" when he faced charges of being drunk and disorderly. Dexter Ferguson had some experience of legal ...

An enraged defendant has been sentenced to four months in prison for swearing non-stop in court and threatening the judge. During a Family Court hearing in which custody of his two children was given ...

Just another day in court. The Law Society has released a scathing report detailing the "shambolic state" of court buildings across England and Wales, and saying there is an urgent need for government ...

One Slaughters lawyer says, "people at the firm love it. People outside it seem to think it's a fate worse than death. It just goes to show what a lot of nonsense you hear". So is the perception ...

Staff at DAC Beachcroft (83%) are the most satisfied with their work/life balance in UK private practice, the RollOnFriday Best Law Firms to Work At 2022 has found. The firm was praised for ...

As is traditional, the lawyers appearing before the Inquiry looked drained of blood. Two Womble Bond Dickinson partners have defended their roles in the wrongful prosecution of sub-postmasters at the ...

The death of a Pinsent Masons partner has ignited a debate on stress and work/life balance in private practice. Vanessa Ford, known professionally as Vanessa Heap, had been working 18-hour days and ...

RollOnFriday has uncovered discrepancies in Freshfields’ diversity and inclusion data which cast doubt on its claims about its DEI achievements. The Magic Circle firm launched a five year Diversity ...

Adam was going to have to replace his fun, imaginary colleague for some real ones. Gowling WLG is changing its remote working policy for lawyers to increase the minimum time in the office from 50% to ...