News archive
2026
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– May
(72)
- Suspended suspension for boss who bullied junior female staff
- SRA ordered to make interim £200k costs payment to Dentons
- Trial-hungry US law firms “have reshaped UK litigation market”
- FCA claims market review to focus on financial services and housing
- The overlooked hate crime reform in Crime & Policing Act
- Leading fee-share firm opts for family ownership over PE
- Big City law firms “continuing to fuel the climate crisis”
- Solicitor struck off for asking client to pay fees into his bank account
- AI and online ‘finfluencers’ making job harder, say private client lawyers
- The SRA’s strict liability gamble has failed. Good
- ‘Big Four’ fee-share firms become ‘Big Five’ with Lawhive
- Barrister fined for accusing senior judge of misconduct loses appeal
- Barrister warns Bar’s Black interns programme may be unlawful
- New approach to client complaints may be needed in age of AI
- LeO directs law firm to pay £49k in latest public interest decisions
- Sports solicitor fails in challenge to SRA intervention
- AIM-listed professional services group launches legal brand
- High Court judge criticises litigators’ unwillingness to co-operate
- How AI presents real opportunities for barristers
- Not everything can be a competition issue – a new dawn for consumer redress
- SRA highlights spike in conduct complaints amid “outsourcing ruse”
- Judge rebukes HMRC for “extraordinary allegation” against law firm
- US company buys AI-driven ABS focused on asset management
- Small law firms held back by “operational drag” in back office
- Judge slams class action firm for bringing claim without authorisation
- Modern search is about ‘knowledge’ retrieval
- Financial Services Bill will be vehicle for AML switch to FCA
- Judge refers solicitors to SRA for fake AI-generated cases
- “Significant new evidence” in employment judge misconduct case
- The Solicitors Charity sees sharp rise in women in need of help
- Indemnity costs ordered over threat to report solicitors to SRA
- PE-backed law firm deals in Midlands, Manchester – and Reykjavík
- Tribunal clears law clinic solicitor of trying to mislead employer
- King’s Speech: No litigation funding, SLAPPs or AML reform
- Lessons from Sir Keir Starmer for SRA chief
- Barrister who put client’s interests ahead of duty to court disbarred
- Meet Mike, the open-source AI challenger built by a City solicitor
- Ban for male employee who targeted firm’s young female staff
- Family lawyers bid to show that arbitration is “not just for the rich”
- CA overturns referral of KC for contempt hearing over closing speech
- The hidden risks in client account reconciliations
- Barrister denies raping client’s daughter in chambers
- Good Law Project urges review of BSB decision on gender-critical barrister
- AI leading to “radical shift” in client expectations
- Supreme Court to hear barrister’s claim against chambers
- Solicitor fails in unfair dismissal after accepting redundancy
- Mentoring the next generation of litigation leaders
- Row over contempt action against KC for defying judge’s order
- MPs set out demands to improve home-buying process
- Multi-office firm fell into administration after sale fell through
- FCA warns legal challenges could scupper any motor finance scheme
- SRA seeks extra £25m from profession “to fix the foundations”
- SRA and CILEX end talks on transferring regulation of legal executives
- Solicitors start again after selling firm to multi-disciplinary group
- “Panicked” solicitor who backdated document struck off
- Bullish PI group eyes “latent market” as it reports strong results
- BSB seeks power to appeal decision of health panels
- The cost of systemic failure and childbirth injuries
- LSB puts SRA under pressure amid fears of more law firm collapses
- Lawyers granted injunction against harassment from litigant in person
- Law firm’s AI tool translates legalese into Gen Z or ‘sassy’ English
- Massive insider trading allegations rock leading US law firms
- FCA review to turn up heat on law firms and CMCs over claims work
- HF “did not need its private equity backer” for major acquisition
- Partner struck off for ‘witnessing’ unsigned leases
- Barrister accidentally sent “life-threatening information” to journalist
- Dual FCA and SRA-regulated business goes into administration
- Exclusive: AI-powered US firm targets UK after $60m fund-raise
- Solicitor’s failure to redeem charges “a warning to profession”
- Bar Council faces discrimination claim over Black interns scheme
- CAT approves £1.7bn Microsoft action despite funder “uncertainty”
- Mazur: when regulators make simple things complicated
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