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 ...

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 ...

A vacation scheme is traditionally a time for day drinking and menial tasks, but candidates on Stephenson Harwood’s recent programme said theirs was marred by a terrifying partner. RollOnFriday ...

A firm has stood by its boasts about winning a pair of legal awards after RollOnFriday raised questions about their value. Recently Bridge Law Solicitors issued a press release declaring, "we are ...

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 ...

Baker McKenzie has terminated a lawyer’s employment after discovering that he has been accused of sexual misconduct by a colleague at his former firm. Stefano Mariani is due in court in Hong Kong to ...

A woman who drafted a sex slave contract for Jeffrey Epstein while she trained to be a lawyer at Clifford Chance has identified herself as one of the predator's victims. 'V' interned at the firm from ...

Move over, Mills & Boon. Start spinning, Cartland. The flamboyant solicitor in charge of high-profile divorce firm Vardags is publishing her first novel, and it's a racy tome about incest. Ayesha ...

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 ...