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Gavin Margetson - a victim of Operation Raise the Flag? (Technically, no, but let's not let that get in the way of an easy take.) A partner’s attempt to sue Mishcon de Reya has been dismissed after he ...
The old guard and the young bucks - in some cases, it's not always clear who is supervising who. The RollOnFriday In-House Lawyer Survey 2025 will close soon, so if you work in-house, this is the ...
Put a foot wrong, or an email address right, and... splat. A solicitor has been suspended for 12 months after he corrected a client’s email address in past correspondence to disguise the fact it had ...
It's not like this every day at MCS. A trainee has been banned from the legal profession after he was convicted of assault and harassment - although a charge that he committed criminal damage by ...
Over 8,000 people working in law firms told RollOnFriday how satisfied they were with their pay, work/life balance, career development, management, and their firm's culture. The results provide a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Several firms won their staff's admiration for their astute decision-making as the Covid crisis overtook the business calendar, but others risked losing the confidence of their people through a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...