Chris was surprisingly chill about the whole thing. A solicitor was forced to abandon one of the world’s toughest open water swims after he was attacked by a shark. Chris Murray, a personal injury ...

Husna Khan (photo: Greater Manchester Police). A trainee has been barred from the legal profession after she was jailed for helping her brother flee the country following a fatal drive-by shooting.

White & Case, Mills & Reeve and Eversheds Sutherland have announced how many trainees they're keeping on as newly-qualified solicitors. 19 out of White & Case's 22 qualifying London trainees accepted ...

The ET was unequivocal, but the SRA says its ruling was flawed. The Solicitors Regulation Authority has criticised an Employment Tribunal for ruling that a Fieldfisher solicitor lied about being ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The world of franchise lawyers is small, but eagle-eyed. Not everyone is cribbing from ChatGPT - a partner has been accused of keeping it old school and simply plagiarising another solicitor's work.

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 ...

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 ...

The former Senior Partner of Allen & Overy, now A&O Shearman, has launched a trilogy of children's books about heroic woodland animals battling a "wicked Crow dynasty". Lawyers seeking a new challenge ...