Formal advice A district judge has been given formal advice after being found to have behaved rudely towards a barrister and excluding him from a hearing, leaving his client unrepresented. District Judge Nicola Murphy excluded the barrister from a directions…
The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the weekend Hotel tycoon hires Britain’s best-paid barrister for Heathrow showdown [The Telegraph] (£) Public to decide asylum appeals as Mahmood jettisons judges [The Times] (£) How AI is powering…
Pair referred to disciplinary tribunal The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has brought its first prosecutions against solicitors linked to the Post Office Horizon scandal, referring two individuals to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT). The first, Jane Elizabeth MacLeod, who was…
Major sporting deal A legal AI giant has been unveiled as Chelsea Football Club’s latest sponsor, with its branding set to appear on the club’s training kit. Legora’s logo will feature on the sleeve of the training kits worn by…
Project Apollo Shoosmiths has built its own AI contract review tool, which it says will speed up the job while also helping to train up junior lawyers. The tool, dubbed Project Apollo, was developed with Microsoft over a year of…
Bar hopeful seeks honest views In the latest submission to our popular career conundrums series, an aspiring barrister asks whether their 2:2 will stand in the way of their dream. “I would like to remain anonymous. I obtained a 2:2…
Pressure to bend rules Pressure from clients to act unethically is the single biggest ethical challenge facing barristers, a new survey has found. The Bar Council’s Ethics at the Bar report, published this week, found that more than half of…
Mixed messaging Currently, the legal press and beyond is full of doom-mongering of a staggering scale. The advent of AI means one thing for sure: your shiny legal career is no longer a dead cert. And as law firms and…
Extra £5k Hogan Lovells has increased salaries for its newly qualified (NQ) associates in London ahead of its mega-merger with US law firm Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft. The firm confirmed that pay for its most junior lawyers has risen by…
Up 15% Global law firm Ashurst has posted a bumper set of results in its final full financial year before combining with US outfit Perkins Coie, with profit per equity partner (PEP) leaping 15% to £1.592 million. The firm’s figures…