As trainees prepare to enter stationery cupboards, form a chrysalis, and then emerge as real solicitors in the autumn, Linklaters and Clifford Chance are the latest firms to announce their retention ...

Hemp juice might have been ok. A law student has been jailed for attempting to smuggle £150k of cannabis through Edinburgh Airport. In August 2024, Sage-Ahliea Gold, 25, a student at the University of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

RollOnFriday contacted all of the 20 firms that were sent letters, but none of them responded with a comment. The firms under the spotlight for their DEI policies are A&O Shearman, Debevoise & ...

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 ...

US firm Goodwin Procter is paying 3PQE lawyers in its London office a base salary of £240k and 6PQEs £325k - excluding bonuses - according to a salary chart leaked to RollOnFriday. The firm circulated ...

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 ...

An Eversheds Sutherland partner used his car to trap a pregnant associate in the office car park when she took his space - and then demanded a written apology from her. Parking spaces are allocated on ...