Tag: Solicitors

Leaked Mossack Fonseca document leaves London law firm exposed

Eminent private client outfit remains tightlipped over dealings with Azerbaijan president's daughters

Apr 6 2016 11:43am

Off the Cuff: Dress Code shocker as HMP Belmarsh seeks to ban visiting lawyers from wearing cufflinks

First they came for our cufflinks… bar appalled at what might be banned next

Apr 5 2016 2:51pm

The Law Society has just wasted £7 million on a failed business venture — here is what they could have spent it on

Independent review reveals a catalogue of errors led to conveyance software flop

Apr 5 2016 12:11pm

65% of kids think lawyers are men

And they drew some delightful pictures to demonstrate this

Apr 5 2016 9:04am

Northern megafirm Hill Dickinson retains all six of its spring qualifiers

Liverpool-based outfit strikes perfect 100% trainee retention score

Apr 4 2016 2:44pm

Sidley Austin pays £100,000 each to seven Kirkland & Ellis associates as signing-on fee

City law juniors haul in Premier League footballer-level money

Apr 4 2016 9:31am

King & Wood Mallesons and Eversheds reveal contrasting trainee retention performances

Meanwhile, Simmons & Simmons accused of retention figure manipulation

Apr 1 2016 2:02pm

Who’s to blame when an April Fool goes wrong?

All fun and games until someone loses an eye

Apr 1 2016 1:40pm

Aspiring solicitor’s training contract deemed worthless after she was left unsupervised for 15 months

Supervisor took maternity leave without arranging appropriate support

Apr 1 2016 11:06am

Law Society’s Chancery Lane HQ to become Europe’s largest Nando’s

Neo-Georgian building in heart of legal London purchased by chicken giant for undisclosed fee

Apr 1 2016 8:08am

Bigshot megafirm partner banned from UK legal practice after billing clients for luxury family holidays

Top lawyer also used firm's cash to pay off debts he owed relating to spin-off venture

Mar 31 2016 11:55am

DLA Piper associate struck off for concealing strike out

Young real estate associate at international giant fabricated court documents

Mar 30 2016 4:38pm

Hogan versus Gawker: Free speech can be costly

Gawker has been ordered to pay an astonishing $140 million in cumulative damages to the former US wrestling icon

Mar 23 2016 11:11am

Video: Litigation Commercial Awareness Question Time — with Hardwicke and RPC

Top barristers and solicitors answer students' questions about legal and finance stories in the news

Mar 22 2016 12:00pm

Simmons & Simmons keeps seven out of nine new qualifiers

Firm declines to comment on how many trainees started this round's qualification process

Mar 21 2016 2:44pm

Sheffield bids to wrestle corporate law northshoring crown from Manchester

Council big wigs offer cash incentives to get a piece of the outsourcing action

Mar 21 2016 1:36pm