The 2004 tie-up between Pinsents and Masons caught very few people by surprise - both had been falling behind national rivals DLA and Eversheds and were desperate to increase their national coverage.

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, ...

A solicitor suspended from practice for a year for tricking an 82-year-old farmer has published a column bemoaning the state of ethics in the legal profession. In an opinion piece headed “Ethics 101” ...

Shakespeare Martineau has come bottom of RollOnFriday’s Best Law Firms to Work At 2025 survey, making it officially the unhappiest firm in the UK. Staff at ShakeMart gave it the lowest overall score ...

An Australian lawyer has been referred to a complaints body after an AI program he used inserted bogus cases into his submissions. The lawyer (not named in the judgment), was representing a client in ...

"Don't worry Mr K, we agree that because of X, the time you made Y use a J to T, while shouting R, should not be disclosed to Z." The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal will conduct a review into its ...

Understandable if you get Brussels, but this is a knock for the Netherlands and UAE. Freshfields trainees have accused the firm of giving two sisters in their cohort plum secondments because they're ...

"It works perfectly! Maybe too perfectly." DLA Piper has told dozens of its IT staff they are at risk of redundancy. Sources told RollOnFriday that over 150 people have been told they may lose their ...

A barrister standing trial for racially aggravated assault has denied drunkenly attacking her neighbour, and contends that in fact she was the victim. Scarlett Milligan, a barrister at 39 Essex ...

Next on the sue list: Thames Water. Pogust Goodhead became Pongust Goodhead last week after a stink forced the firm to vacate its new headquarters. The group litigation specialist had only just moved ...

Osborne Clarke is a happy firm. It has been for years, really. It's gone from having six offices in three countries to 20 offices over nine countries, covering Belgium, Germany, Italy, France, Hong ...

Back in the day, legacy Beachcroft went through a phase of desperately trying to reinvent itself – it dropped the “Wansbroughs” from its name and moved into flashy new offices in Bristol (“rather like ...