Traditionally, two things have really irritated Herbert Smith Freehills. One is that it’s not in the Magic Circle, despite its undeniable quality. This irritates the firm so much a former senior ...

Staff at DAC Beachcroft (83%) are the most satisfied with their work/life balance in UK private practice, the RollOnFriday Best Law Firms to Work At 2022 has found.. The firm was praised for ...

But it looks like they’re onto him despite the distancing exercise. Counsel for the Inquiry noted ominously that the role of Parsons in advising the Post Office to hide evidence and make it look ...

The transgender lawyer who has accused Father Ted scribe Graham Linehan of transphobia and is suing him for harassment was once convicted of affray for threatening a man with a golf club, as well as ...

In the middle of the pack, a common grumble was the gulf between London and regional pay, particularly in the age of the pandemic. The wedge at DLA Piper (51%) was "Good for the regions", conceded a ...

Brabners' contribution will be news to the feminist campaigners of For Women Scotland, who brought the case in a challenge to the Scottish government’s determination that 'sex' meant ‘certificated sex ...

A barrister is suing Cambridge University for “substantial damages” after he failed his PhD.. Jacob Meagher was informed in April 2023 that he had flunked the final oral examination element of his ...

A barrister who was a Stonewall Champion and Bar Council member has criticised the regulator for disbarring him after he was found to have falsely accused a colleague at DWF of homophobia.. Speaking ...

Paul, Weiss has settled the £136m claim brought against it by a former associate, RollOnFriday understands. The associate was a corporate lawyer in the London office of the US firm until she was ...

The death of a Pinsent Masons partner has ignited a debate on stress and work/life balance in private practice.. Vanessa Ford, known professionally as Vanessa Heap, had been working 18-hour days and ...

@10:28 - that's exactly it. Big firms don't want the PR hit of being first to go, which right now they would certainly get. But the intensity of that hit reduces each time another smaller firm leaves, ...

A former Dentons lawyer has been banned from the legal profession in England and Wales for touching a colleague inappropriately at a bar.. Gordon Herd, a Scottish qualified solicitor, was an associate ...