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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 ...
A paralegal has been rebuked by the SRA and a partner fined for wrongly authorising the release of £2.56m to a property developer which then went bust, leaving their firm to pick up a large chunk of ...
RollOnFriday has uncovered discrepancies in Freshfields ’ diversity and inclusion data which cast doubt on its claims about its DEI achievements. The Magic Circle firm launched a five year Diversity ...
An associate with ADHD and autism has claimed that Trowers & Hamlins unfairly dismissed her and subjected her to disability discrimination. ‘J’ is suing the firm for constructive unfair dismissal, ...
They added a dashed box and opted for coloured outlines. The minimal art, maximal text approach is clean, but busy: 5/10. Next up was the judge’s effort.
Broadfield, formerly known as BDB Pitmans, has missed its financial targets for the start of 2025 and brought in a new boss, RollOnFriday understands. In a firmwide call last Thursday, Managing ...
A Ropes & Gray lawyer has been targeted with a campaign to publicly shame him at work - by his wife. The solicitor, who RollOnFriday is not identifying, has been plastered across banners which his ...
Locals have accused lawyers for a developer of going ballistic and threatening to sue them all over how they've parked their cars - even those who had nothing to do with the situation. South coast ...
In The RollOnFriday In-House Lawyer Survey 2025, perhaps unsurprisingly, brash lawyers are getting some stick. One in-house lawyer in banking singled out a City firm: “Every time I deal with their ...