The ET was unequivocal, but the SRA says its ruling was flawed. The Solicitors Regulation Authority has criticised an Employment Tribunal for ruling that a Fieldfisher solicitor lied about being ...

Chris was surprisingly chill about the whole thing. A solicitor was forced to abandon one of the world’s toughest open water swims after he was attacked by a shark. Chris Murray, a personal injury ...

White & Case, Mills & Reeve and Eversheds Sutherland have announced how many trainees they're keeping on as newly-qualified solicitors. 19 out of White & Case's 22 qualifying London trainees accepted ...

Husna Khan (photo: Greater Manchester Police). A trainee has been barred from the legal profession after she was jailed for helping her brother flee the country following a fatal drive-by shooting.

A barrister has been reprimanded by the Bar Standards Board for letting out his inside voice when he was talking to probation staff, who were his clients. Timothy Compton, who was called to the bar in ...

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 ...

Staff at DAC Beachcroft (83%) are the most satisfied with their work/life balance in UK private practice, the RollOnFriday Best Law Firms to Work At 2022 has found. The firm was praised for ...

At least no-one's overreacting. 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 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 ...

Partners at the London office of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett have cancelled holiday cover and binned the ability to carry over unused vacation days, telling junior lawyers how irritated they are with ...

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 ...

Over recent weeks, the degree to which law firms have provided their people with satisfactory pay, career development, work/life balance and the office/amenities has become clear thanks to the ...