Understandable if you get Brussels, but this is a knock for the Netherlands and UAE. Freshfields trainees have accused the firm of giving two sisters in their cohort plum secondments because they're ...

Yours, with change from a tenner. Listed law group RBG Holdings has suspended trading of its shares this week, and indicated that it is nearing a declaration of insolvency. [Update: it's now happened, ...

A barrister standing trial for racially aggravated assault has denied drunkenly attacking her neighbour, and contends that in fact she was the victim. Scarlett Milligan, a barrister at 39 Essex ...

"It works perfectly! Maybe too perfectly." DLA Piper has told dozens of its IT staff they are at risk of redundancy. Sources told RollOnFriday that over 150 people have been told they may lose their ...

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 ...

Next on the sue list: Thames Water. Pogust Goodhead became Pongust Goodhead last week after a stink forced the firm to vacate its new headquarters. The group litigation specialist had only just moved ...

Two law firm staff have been banned from the profession for dealing drugs to their friends after they were caught with cocaine-measuring paraphernalia in a police raid. Jordan Heeley, 31, and ...

"We are one team. Although only some of us get a nice seat for the photo." RollOnFriday's Best Law Firms to Work At 2025 survey is closing on Monday. So if you work in private practice, this is the ...

A senior associate has won €175,000 after suing Dentons for €40 million when the global firm sought to sack her for poor performance. The unnamed 44-year-old lawyer, whom ROF shall call ‘Maria’, ...

Condliffe's speaker notes about "thriving in the face of adversity", may come in handy now. A solicitor who describes herself as "an acclaimed thought leader, global speaker, and resilience coach", ...

"Sorry Sheikh, I've got some other prospective clients here who aren't accustomed to waiting." A Penningtons Manches partner advised the regime of deposed Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina ...

How the Bar Standards Board viewed the incident. A pupil barrister has been suspended for reading her supervisor's document without permission, and then producing a document with "striking ...