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, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

"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’, ...

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 ...

One Slaughters lawyer says, "people at the firm love it. People outside it seem to think it's a fate worse than death. It just goes to show what a lot of nonsense you hear". So is the perception ...

Winner of the Golden Turd 2018 - but it's improved since then, placing 27th out of 61 firms in 2022.

In 2024, Allen & Overy merged with US firm Shearman & Sterling, minting A&O Shearman and creating a beast comprising approximately 7,000 people, 4,000 lawyers and 800 partners across 47 offices, with ...