The CEO of the group including Shakespeare Martineau, which installed a transparent piano in its office lobby, has been suspended by the company. Sarah Walker Smith is the chief executive of Ampa, the ...

McLeod refusing to accept delivery in Australia, a gremlin in the software, and Gould. The Solicitors Regulation Authority has referred the first two solicitors for prosecution in connection with the ...

Back in the 90s Ashurst, as it then was, was seen as pretty much the best firm at which to work in the City. The cliché was that it punched above its weight, with Magic Circle quality but mid-sized ...

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 ...

No more booze for you. Linklaters has banned one of its partners from drinking alcohol after he drunkenly touched another lawyer’s bum, RollOnFriday understands. The partner allegedly stepped out of ...

Senior lawyers blame salary bunching on the NQ pay war - and the resentment is turning inwards. The sky-high pay of newly-qualified solicitors is fuelling significant resentment around salaries in ...

How it might look: Bruce wipes out the dinosaurs at Kennedys. A law firm’s Senior Partner has told his partnership it needs to tackle a “pattern” of bullying and sexual harassment by senior levels 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 ...

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 ...

An employment judge has been accused of peppering a ruling with inaccurate and nonexistent quotes from other judgments. Scottish Employment Judge Sandy Kemp handed down his keenly-awaited judgment ...

The legal awards company which garlanded Alan Blacker with prizes has revoked his honours. RollOnFriday pointed out last week that SME News had bestowed the titles ‘Best Pro Bono Legal Services ...

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 ...