The SRA will take no action against a Fieldfisher associate who was found to have deliberately lied in her account of being sexually assaulted by a colleague. The regulator was investigating the ...

As partners and HR teams across the land deliberate over which final-seat trainees to keep on this autumn, the first few firms are out of the blocks to reveal their retention scores. Withers is ...

A former Cooley paralegal has been banned from the legal profession after he faked a client’s signature because he was worried he would lose his job. Sarthak Mukherji was assisting his team at Cooley ...

An intern has been expelled from US law firm Sidley Austin for biting people. The law student chomped on five people, RollOnFriday has confirmed. 'Bitegirl', who was undertaking a paid internship in ...

Bombshell evidence has emerged in the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry this week showing that Womble Bond Dickinson advised its client to "suppress" incriminating information "in a way that looks ...

Staff at US firm Sidley Austin (92%) are the most satisfied with their pay in UK private practice, the RollOnFriday Best Law Firms to Work At 2022 has found. "It’s embarrassing that it’s published," ...

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 ...

The SRA has responded to complaints by students that the Solicitors Qualification Exam (SQE) is too expensive and unfairly punishes them due to a lack of transparency, while Clifford Chance and ...

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 ...

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 ...

An A&O Shearman partner has resigned from the firm after being convicted of drink driving. The partner was stopped by police earlier this year while he was driving his Porsche Cayenne in the New ...

Over recent weeks, the degree to which law firms have provided their people with satisfactory pay, career development, work/life balance and the office/amenities has become clear thanks to the ...