Whistleblowing Credit: Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal Paralegals, clerks and trainees who blow the whistle on wrongdoing at their firms can now do so shielded from the risk of retaliation by their employer, after a change to the way the regulator handles…
Prevent publication US firm Weil Gotshal is the latest law firm to fall victim to a cyber attack after it was reportedly forced to pay a ransom in the double-digit millions to prevent the publication of confidential client data. According…
Rises for trainees too BCLP has confirmed that its newly qualified (NQ) lawyers in London are now earning £125,000, following a pay rise at the start of the year. The firm revealed this week a £10,000 pay rise — nearly…
‘Insufficiently severe’ The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has appealed the sanction given to an experienced solicitor who bullied and harassed five junior female colleagues. Legal Cheek reported last week that John Kishin Navani had been hauled before a disciplinary tribunal…
New BigLaw giant The transatlantic merger between Taylor Wessing’s UK arm and US player Winston & Strawn has officially gone live today, creating a new BigLaw beast boasting over 1,400 lawyers and revenues of £1.3 billion. News that the firms…
Centralise operations Clyde & Co has entered into consultation with support staff over potential job losses as the firm moves to centralise its operations. The firm is proposing to shift certain services from teams across legal support, purchase to pay…
Follows independent reviewer’s recommendation A spell-check tool is to be trialled in SQE2 written assessments for the first time, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has announced. The tool, which will be available on the Pearson assessment platform, is set to…
The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the weekend Top City law firm ends ‘bring your dog to work’ perk [The Times] (£) Lord Hermer: ‘No Doubt’ Referring Rape Sentences to Court of Appeal [BBC News] Cambridge…
Serious investment US law firm Kirkland & Ellis has set aside an eye-watering $500 million (£370 million) to build its own AI platform. Firm chair Jon Ballis said that while widely available AI tools are raising standards across the legal…
Targeting high value litigation US law firms are securing an outsized grip on the highest-value disputes before the English courts, new data suggests. Research from legal analytics firm Solomonic found that US firms handled cases with a median claim value…