Linklaters is changing its associate bonus system to shift the focus away from billable hours. The firm currently provides associates the opportunity to earn bonuses based on chargeable hours, ...

Law firms and even the Law Society have been left floundering after the Supreme Court unanimously decided that biological sex determines who is a man and who is a woman. The judgment in For Women ...

Mocked by BigLawA solicitor whose philosophy is “plenty of smiles” said he was inspired to set up his own firm after he was ridiculed by his colleagues for being too nice. Harry “Just Ask Harry!” ...

Quiet part out loudThere are good and bad gen z lawyers just as they were in my day (I’m a millennial so apparently old now). But what’s different is (1) the inability to take feedback; (2) the poor ...

Vested interestA solicitor suspended from practice for a year for tricking an 82-year-old farmer has published a column bemoaning the state of ethics in the legal profession. In an opinion piece ...

Let's start with management. Completely failed to integrate Memery Crystal and Rosenblatt, which despite being the same entity, traded under two different brands. Nobody understood it. It took over ...

Shakespeare Martineau has come bottom of RollOnFriday’s Best Law Firms to Work At 2025 survey, making it officially the unhappiest firm in the UK. Staff at ShakeMart gave it the lowest overall score ...

Unfair interrogationA 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 ...

Life comes at you fastPogust Goodhead boasted it would make its lawyers millionaires, but instead the collective action firm is making them jobless in what staff have described as mass redundancies.

An Eversheds Sutherland partner used his car to trap a pregnant associate in the office car park when she took his space - and then demanded a written apology from her. Parking spaces are allocated on ...

Another poster claimed to have had the same experience, this time with Bradstone Allington. “When I was desperate for a paralegal role I was on the phone to them for over an hour believing it was a ...

The SDT has published its judgment ordering former Bird & Bird partner Takeshige Sugimoto to be banned from the profession for five years. Sugimoto was head of a team in 2Birds’ Brussels office until ...