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President Trump has attacked the role of “global law firms” as 20 top practices – including leading London names – are targeted in the US over DEI employment practices.

Members of the public and firms reporting concerns to the SRA will have to wait up to two months for a response, twice the time it was at the start of the year.

Money continues to pour into the litigation finance market, with one expecting to treble its investment to £250m in the next two years and another set to launch a $75m fund.

Lawyers need to avoid being “so seduced” by what AI can do “that they don’t appreciate what it cannot”, a professional negligence specialist warned last week.

An almost all-female legal team is working out how to challenge a refusal to investigate allegations of intimidating, sexist and discriminatory conduct by a male judge.

A law firm partner has been struck off for fabricating documents to mislead the SRA about his role in mismanaging a client’s personal injury trust.

A solicitor struck off for multiple rule breaches, including that he actively concealed from his employer the fact that he had taken loans from clients, has failed in his appeal.

Sexual harassment at the Bar that “might have been tolerated and even expected in the past is no longer acceptable”, a disciplinary tribunal has said – but “regrettably, such behaviour is still widespread”.

The Law Society, Bar Council, CILEX and the Association of Costs Lawyers have become the latest to call for stronger oversight of third-party litigation funding.

Chartered accountants are finally to get the right to conduct the reserved legal activity of administering oaths, six years after their regulator gained the power to grant it.