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A legal recruitment consultant was wrong to refuse to disclose his personal LinkedIn password before he left his employer to set up his own business, the High Court has ruled.

The government has refused to rule out replacing the witnessing of lasting powers of attorney with electronic signatures despite widespread opposition in a consultation.

UK law firms are risking their public reputation by working with Russian litigants, the largest group of international users of the Commercial Court in the last year, new research has warned.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority needs to investigate a “clear breach” of its recent guidance over SLAPPs, lawyers for the founder of investigative website Bellingcat have said.

There is increasing pressure on law firms to show their values in who they act for, and young lawyers should be part of the process of defining them, a seminar heard this week.

Listed consolidator Knights has scooped up another well-known regional law firm in its 18th acquisition since listing almost four years ago, South-East firm Coffin Mew.

The merger of two of the four big property search providers “substantially lessens competition” and the only remedy would be to break up the business, the CMA has provisionally found.

The lack of judges and lawyers is the main obstacle to clearing the backlog of criminal cases in the Crown Court, the Lord Chief Justice told peers yesterday.

Co-operative Legal Services – the poster child of the alternative business structure era – is planning major expansion over the next five years to become a £100m operation.

A solicitor was “so obsessed with making money from his work that he lost any real sense of objectivity, proportion or indeed loyalty to his client”, a High Court judge has found.