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 ...

An Artificial Intelligence business backed by Google has purchased a high street law firm in a first for the UK. While AI law firms have begun to emerge in the market, and many firms already use AI ...

Freshfields has begun a redundancy process affecting paralegals, ROF has learned. Last week paralegals in the firm’s Manchester office were called into a meeting titled "Important Update", where ...

Kennedys has apologised and reported itself to the SRA after it accidentally revealed the names of dozens of people who had registered for updates on the Church of England’s redress scheme for victims ...

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 ...

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 ...

43rd time's the charm. A law graduate has been banned from complaining to the Employment Tribunal about job applications after he sued employers 42 times for not hiring him. His arc of failure was ...

It's all about the prompts. A barrister and her solicitors have been condemned by a judge for their “appalling professional misbehaviour” after they cited non-existent cases. Sarah Forey of 3 Bolt ...

The SRA has authorised the country's first purely AI-based firm to provide legal services. While many firms now use AI to support their business, it is the first time an all-AI platform has been ...