Author: Sophie Dillon

Powering progress: The role lawyers play in leading the global energy transition
White & Case’s Ryan Gawrych and Hannah Bragge unpack life in the firm’s busy Energy, Infrastructure, Project and Asset Finance team

Skadden removes diversity content from UK grad rec site as firm comes under fire over $100 million Trump deal
Exclusive: Reference to D&I networks taken down

Departing Skadden associate urges boycott of trainee recruitment at firms silent on Trump attacks
Rachel Cohen’s message comes as her own firm strikes $100 million deal with US President

Hogan Lovells brews up a new venture with public café
From contracts to coffee beans ☕

Trump hits yet another US law firm with executive order
Jenner & Block becomes latest target

Executive order could have ‘destroyed’ firm, says Paul Weiss chair
Brad Karp defends deal with US president as Skadden junior lawyer resigns in protest over D&I attack

‘Human error’ costs HSF £465k as firm fined over Russia sanctions breach
The penalty concerns £4 million in payments from 2022

Bar Council urges barristers to report inappropriate behaviour in wake of Sidhu disbarment
'I recognise how difficult it is for complainants to come forward', says chair Barbara Mills KC

Law Society condemns Trump’s attack on lawyers as top firms quietly remove DEI content from their websites
Hogan Lovells and Latham & Watkins among those to make online tweaks

Trump’s D&I crackdown expands: A&O Shearman, Freshfields and Hogan Lovells among latest law firm targets
20 major outfits face probe

Mishcon de Reya pursues pardon for the last woman hanged in the UK
Ruth Ellis was executed in 1955

Business Secretary ‘corrects record’ on Addleshaw solicitor claim
Addresses House of Commons

US lawyer jailed for faking Kirkland & Ellis experience to land six-figure legal roles
Also posed as a former footballer and ex-Marine

Latham joins Kirkland in $7 billion revenue club
Very (very!) strong financials 💰

Women leaders in law: Inspiring advice for the next generation of lawyers
Legal Cheek asks those at the top of the profession for their words of advice ahead of tomorrow's International Women’s Day

Chair of legal super-regulator steps down with immediate effect
Personal considerations