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A male ex-partner at City giant Freshfields who groped a female associate after a team Christmas party has been suspended from practice for two years.

Law firms handling probate work could do more to guard against the risks of a conflict when administering estates and also acting as the executor, the SRA has cautioned.

Too many solicitors only check their professional obligations when things go wrong and are over-reliant on their firm’s COLP to keep on top of regulatory issues, according to SRA research.

A man who provided immigration advice and services without being regulated has been handed a suspended jail sentence.

The Bar Standards Board has proven itself “unfit for purpose”, Dr Charlotte Proudman said yesterday after a disciplinary tribunal ruled she had no case to answer over tweets she sent.

A venture capital-backed law firm’s AI agent is handling both legal and non-legal work for its lawyers, its founder has said – like creating files, drawing up ‘to do’ lists and drafting emails,

The High Court has rejected the evidence of an expert witness who had “little or no regard” to the Civil Procedure Rules and was “prepared materially to mislead the court”.

The man who planned a terrorist attack at a London law firm and made a threat to kill an immigration solicitor has been sentenced to an indeterminate hospital order.

The Supreme Court has granted permission to appeal the Court of Appeal decision on motor finance commissions, acceding to calls for a quick decision.

There has been a strong reaction to the suspended prison sentence for disgraced solicitor Phil Shiner, with the shadow Lord Chancellor saying “it is an insult to British veterans that he is not behind bars”.