RollOnFriday's In-house Lawyer Survey 2025 is underway, revealing clients are split on the approach their panel firms should take on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. The survey is still open, but so ...

Following jail convictionA 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 ...

This appears to have a lot of downvotes, but that's arguably because it is so clearly accurate. There's no way that the type A, work-obsessed autistic automatons who get Oxford firsts and BCLs would ...

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 ...

Mocked by BigLawA 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!” ...

'Insufficient'The body which oversees legal regulators has raised “serious concerns” about the operation of both the Solicitors Regulation Authority and the Bar Standards Board. The Legal Services ...

RealpolitikDonald Trump has made - and withdrawn - an executive order against Paul, Weiss which aimed to prevent the US firm from doing any work with the federal government. The US President made a ...

CMS has taken “decisive action” against an HR employee who posted offensive tweets about Islam. Dan Cooper was an International Senior HR Business Partner for the firm and described himself in his ...

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 ...

A trainee has been banned from law for lying about why she requested annual leave. Steph Merrill told Shropshire firm Lanyon Bowdler that she was taking a relative to a hospital appointment, when ...

Unfair interrogationA barrister is suing Cambridge University for “substantial damages” after he failed his PhD. Jacob Meagher was informed in April 2023 that he had flunked the final oral examination ...

Five Extinction Rebellion activists have been arrested after they stormed A&O Shearman ’s London office on Wednesday and sprayed fake oil on the windows. The pressure group accused the firm of ...