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A law firm without a website has been saved a job by a disgruntled opponent who's made one for it. Only it’s not very complimentary.
Womble Bond Dickinson's flagship Newcastle office building has been vandalised by pro-Palestinian activists. The firm moved into The Spark, situated on the 24-acre Helix business campus, in 2023. Its ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 author, his hero, and someone wondering if they're a baddie. A German Fieldfisher partner has apologised after he suggested that a Nazi-regime architect was a role model to lawyers. Rüdiger Litten ...
A former law firm partner has been struck off the roll, following a rape conviction. Shah Syed Rashid Masood Sahib was a law firm manager and partner at Syeds Solicitors in Birmingham. The court ...
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, ...
A judge has reprimanded a US lawyer for pasting a purple dragon watermark on each page of his submissions. Jacob A. Perrone, a lawyer in Michigan, recently launched his firm with a name fit for ...
A DWF solicitor had been given two bravery awards after he saved a man’s life by jumping into the Thames and pulling him to shore, RolIOnFriday can reveal. Mike Cooper, an insurance specialist from ...
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 ...
A 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!” Suleman’s firm, ...