White & Case’s London office is one of the most venerable in the City, having been around since 1971. So it's safe to say that it looks set, along with competitors Shearman & Sterling (er - scratch ...

The owner of a firm has been struck off, after it emerged that he misappropriated over £163,000 of client funds. Charles Ogbonna Azotam, admitted in 2013, was the sole principal at immigration firm ...

In 2024, Allen & Overy merged with US firm Shearman & Sterling, minting A&O Shearman and creating a beast comprising approximately 7,000 people, 4,000 lawyers and 800 partners across 47 offices, with ...

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 ...

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Hemp juice might have been ok. A law student has been jailed for attempting to smuggle £150k of cannabis through Edinburgh Airport. In August 2024, Sage-Ahliea Gold, 25, a student at the University of ...

Womble Bond Dickinson's flagship Newcastle office building has been vandalised by pro-Palestinian activists. The firm moved into The Spark, situated on the 24-acre Helix business campus, in 2023. Its ...

The SRA will take no action against a Fieldfisher associate who was found to have deliberately lied in her account of being sexually assaulted by a colleague. The regulator was investigating the ...

Come on, Sir Marcus. Draw us a horse. A judge has delighted barristers with his sketching skills, although his grasp of the law had better be firmer than his grasp of a crayon. In a heavyweight ...

At first glance the homes seemed fully built. A paralegal has been rebuked by the SRA and a partner fined for wrongly authorising the release of £2.56m to a property developer which then went bust, ...

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 ...