A high-flying solicitor at a 'work hard, play hard' law firm has been ordered to pay almost £100,000 after groping two female colleagues.

'Well-remunerated' Lewis Brady molested the women after drinking heavily on nights out, a disciplinary hearing was told.

The tribunal found he touched one woman's bottom while standing behind her at a bar and touched the breast of another married colleague in a taxi home from a night out.

The 33-year-old managing associate said he had an 'awful feeling' the day after one of the incidents that he had acted inappropriately.

After finding him guilty of misconduct the Solicitors Regulation Authority has suspended Mr Brady from practising as a solicitor for 12 months.