As is traditional, the lawyers appearing before the Inquiry looked drained of blood. Two Womble Bond Dickinson partners have defended their roles in the wrongful prosecution of sub-postmasters at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pragnesh Modhwadia has admitted that the £64m which went walkabouts from Axiom Ince’s client account has already been spent. Responding to the firm’s freezing order, which was revealed by RollOnFriday ...

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 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 ...