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NewsA dollar a second? Hourly rates rocket at top global firms
Billing rates for senior lawyers are already 'exceptionally high' and fee inflation is rampant, new study finds.
NewsLondon legal giants unveil new partners - but don’t mention the ‘D’ word
Statistics and commentary on gender and ethnicity are absent from Freshfields and A&O Shearman announcements to the media.
OpinionDirty dealing
Are equity partners, earning multi-millions, truly expected to die on Capitol Hill over their firms' DEI policies?
OpinionLeader: Shelf lives
Consumer watchdogs want the SRA to help solve the access to justice crisis. That was my first take on a new report from the Legal Services Consumer Panel.
NewsClean up your own backyard: City law firms urged to overhaul client onboarding
Legislators are ready to criminalise professional ‘enablers’ of kleptocracy - the City needs to take the threat of legislation seriously.
NewsCriminal sanctions warning over City’s dirty money failings
Solicitors have a 'contract with the public' that they need to reread, says former Allen & Overy chief.
NewsCity firms must overhaul client vetting to thwart corrupt oligarchs - taskforce
Ethics panel led by former Allen & Overy chief concludes that complying with the letter of the law is not enough to restore public trust.
OpinionOld chestnut back in season
Is momentum building again for a root-and-branch reform of legal services regulation?
OpinionGlass houses
Last week I noted that the Law Society’s benchmarking survey was awkwardly timed, finding as it did that client interest is turbocharging practice profits.
OpinionNo more ‘free money’?
Might the prospect of tipping dozens of law firms into financial trouble deter the SRA from imposing a ban on pocketing interest on client money?
NewsIn depth: Benchmarking survey - client interest profit warning
Law firms buoyed by interest on client money must ‘wean themselves off’ this lucrative income stream. That is a key message of the annual Law Society Financial Benchmarking Survey.
NewsBenchmarking survey: Law firms warned to ‘wean themselves off’ client interest as PEP soars
'Real prospect' of firms failing if they remain dependent on windfalls which averaged nearly £500,000 each in 2024.
OpinionMoney isn’t everything
District judges earn £134,000 a year, more than 3.5 times the average UK salary for full-time employees. Is it enough?
NewsHigh-profile costs lawyer will bow out ‘ashamed’ of ‘greedy’ City elite
Jim Diamond says hourly rates charged by City’s richest law firms have reached £1,600.
OpinionThree’s no crowd
Gateley, Knights and Keystone Law are the only standalone law firm businesses with a stockmarket listing.
News'Tin-eared' and 'arrogant' SRA must be reined in, says regulation specialist silk
Gregory Treverton-Jones KC accuses the regulator of being ‘generally unsympathetic to the realities of practice as a solicitor’.
OpinionIn the national interest
Chancellor Rachel Reeves summoned a phalanx of industry regulators to lecture them on the need to ‘tear down the barriers’. Legal watchdogs appear to have received a pass.