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Firm threatened to ruin lawyers' careers unless they agreed to its client's demands
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (1332+ words) Let your next career move come to you. Litigation specialist Brandsmiths has been criticised for threatening to ruin the careers of two opposing solicitors with criminal contempt proceedings and reports to the Solicitors Regulation Authority unless they fell into line…...
Partner sanctioned lawyers for not bringing in sweets
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (979+ words) Let your next career move come to you. ''Oi! You've brought sweets, which is good, but are you with child?' A criminal defence solicitor has been banned from interviewing job candidates and holding disciplinary meetings after he was found to…...
Pogust Goodhead must pay "900k after bringing claim without authority
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (467+ words) Let your next career move come to you. Who can be arsed to translate Portuguese, though? Bolstering its reputation as the loosest cannon in law, Pogust Goodhead has been ordered to pay almost "1m in costs for a case it "never…...
Uh-oh: Company decides to let AI rate and pick its law firms
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (616+ words) Let your next career move come to you. A fintech business will use AI to help it choose which law firms to instruct, scrapping its usual panel process." Tom Hambrett, Chief Legal Officer at Revolut (previously a corporate solicitor at…...
EXCLUSIVE Police treatment of lawyer accused of strangulation criticised
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (642+ words) Let your next career move come to you. The Crown Prosecution Service has raised concerns with the Metropolitan Police about its treatment of domestic abuse cases after it dismissed a woman's accusations that a prominent lawyer strangled and raped her....
City partner withdraws "75 mentoring after backlash
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (622+ words) Let your next career move come to you. A City partner who offered mentoring sessions to trainees for "75 has withdrawn the service and deleted her Tik Tok channel after a backlash. Rachel Ford, a data lawyer at RPC, offered 45 minute…...
Lawyers planned to fool AI with 'invisible ink' prompt in documents
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (257+ words) Let your next career move come to you. A Brazilian court has fined two lawyers for using hidden text in a document, to try to influence the court's AI tools. The embedded text was written in white font on a…...
EXCLUSIVE Law firm embraces the grind with bespoke 'Mourant Blend' coffee
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (319+ words) Let your next career move come to you. More Mourant, ma'am? The ads write themselves. Lawyers at an offshore law firm can now drink their employer in the form of a bespoke branded coffee. Jersey-based Mourant said it had partnered…...
In-house lawyers rate quality of advice higher than fees or relationship
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (664+ words) Let your next career move come to you. The lawyers provided top advice, but the clients weren't that bothered about going for relationship-building drinks When picking which firm to instruct, quality of advice is the most important factor, in-house lawyers…...
We're OK with WFH lawyers, say clients
1+ week, 2+ day ago (771+ words) Let your next career move come to you. You can lead a lawyer to the office, but you can't always make them collaborate" In-house lawyers have been spilling the beans on what they want from the lawyers they instruct and,…...