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Firms ranked 26-50 in the Legal Business 100 – Macfarlanes, TLT and Watson Farley & Williams – have posted a mixed bag of financials for 2020/21. Macfarlanes has enjoyed its eleventh consecutive year of revenue growth amid a double-digit profit ...

Despite fairly even gender split in profession Men are four times more likely than women to appear before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT), new research by university academics has found, despite there being a fairly even split between genders in ...

Like almost every other profession, discipline and walk of life, clinical negligence practitioners have seen a huge transformation wrought by the pandemic.  By all accounts, the sector coped remarkably well under the restrictions that were so hastily introduced, last year. ...

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Ryan Eve vindicated in High Court after regulator’s blunders The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has come under withering fire from a High Court judge for its treatment of an overseas student kicked off the bar training course in error. Ryan ...

New pathway to qualification gains popularity as SQE roll-out nears The number of solicitor apprenticeships on offer jumped by 40% in a single year, new figures released this week by the regulator have shown. The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA)’s annual ...

Amid an uncharacteristically sluggish week for lateral hires, two top-50 Legal Business 100 firms have welcomed former colleagues back to their London insurance practices. Herbert Smith Freehills has hired Will Glassey to further bolster its solicitors’ professional indemnity and regulatory ...

Legal Business Blogs RPC is the latest LB100 firm to emerge from a ‘very challenging’ period to today (22 July) post exceptional financial results for 2020/21. The firm’s ...

As a consequence of leaving the EU, the UK lost its membership of the Lugano Convention, a relevant international treaty between the EU with other European states that form the European Free Trade Association, including Switzerland, Norway, and Iceland. Consequently, ...

Mixed fortunes for Ashurst, Simmons, Dentons, DWF and Gateley City law firms continue to reveal strong financial results despite the disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Ashurst today confirmed revenue rose 10% from £644 million to £711 million, while profit ...