'Can I take you to Ikea? I love you.' The SDT has published its judgment ordering former Bird & Bird partner Takeshige Sugimoto to be banned from the profession for five years. Sugimoto was head of a ...

A former DWF partner has been struck off the roll after he was convicted of attempting to communicate with an underage person for the purpose of sexual gratification. David Storry Walton, 68, pleaded ...

'Can I take you to Ikea? I love you.' The SDT has published its judgment ordering former Bird & Bird partner Takeshige Sugimoto to be banned from the profession for five years. Sugimoto was head of ...

Rosenblatt and Divers duke it out (actual bodies shown). The share price of listed law group RBG Holdings has crashed to less than 3p, causing a management bust-up in which execs have rebuffed an ...

"When I said I'd find my exam answers on Windows, this is actually what I meant..." An ex-accountant assistant at Osborne Clarke has been barred from the profession by the SRA after he repeatedly lied ...

A tycoon has extracted even more cash from Dechert thanks to a former partner who was allegedly involved in hacking his emails. The US-headquartered firm paid Farhad Azima £3m earlier this year to ...

A barrister who was sent to prison for raping a woman he met on Tinder, has been barred by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. In September 2022, Robin Jacobs was found guilty of one count of rape ...

"Not only did they refuse your offer, but they reported you to the police. And you've been charged." A solicitor has been struck off after he was convicted of blackmailing a fellow director. Michael ...

Freshfields is the latest firm to have a rebrand, ditching 'Bruckhaus Deringer', to emerge as...(drum roll) Freshfields. The Freshfields name was adopted at the turn of the 19th century, after a ...

I went to the opening of Sael last week, Jason Atherton’s new London spot. ‘Sael’ is old English for ‘season’, apparently - better than Ye Olde Rose and Crown or The Fisted Badger, I suppose. And ...

For a few days, the 'back to the office' messaging was harder. Kennedys has recovered from a “poonami” which knocked its lifts out of operation, RollOnFriday can reveal. The firm's London branch ...

Kapdi, done over by those pesky Gupta Bros. Dentons has said it is co-operating with South African authorities as they investigate historic allegations that public money was used unlawfully. South ...