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A breach of the anti-money laundering rules by Dentons, the world’s largest law firm, was “inadvertent” and did not amount to professional misconduct, the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal has ruled.

A law firm employee who diverted a client’s stamp duty refund to herself – via an unwitting friend’s bank account – has been barred from the profession.

A fee-earner who has not complied with a court order to return documents taken from his former law firm has been handed a four-month suspended jail sentence for contempt.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority revealed yesterday that it has more than 20 live investigations into solicitors and law firms involved in the Post Office scandal.

Women with senior management roles in the legal world have spoken out on how the menopause has affected them in the workplace in a bid to build a new movement.

The SRA has imposed a control order on a law firm’s office manager who took money from client account to pay wages and “prop” up the practice.

A solicitor has been awarded damages of £26,475 after her law firm withdrew an offer of promotion and four weeks later summarily dismissed her because she was pregnant

One of the solicitors responsible for the controverisal new version of the Law Society’s TA6 conveyancing form has described it as a “business opportunity” and added that he “cannot wait to use it”.

Professional negligence lawyers need to grapple with the question of whether it is negligent to use – or not to use – artificial intelligence, the Master of the Rolls has said.

Criminal law is the legal specialism most appreciated by clients in online reviews, new research has found, while firms in Leicester are highest rated, and those in Wrexham lowest.