Orange is the new Bar. The Bar Council’s poster girl for social mobility has been suspended from practice after she was found guilty of helping a gangster take revenge in a turf war. Samreen Akhtar ...

Sneak peek inside Atlantic House. Hogan Lovells Cadwalader has sent its London staff home for at least a fortnight after the aircon broke and the office temperature rocketed. The air conditioning ...

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 ...

In July 2026, Hogan Lovells secured a massive US merger with Cadwalader, to create megafirm Hogan Lovells Cadwalader (soon to be abbreviated to HogLovesCads, perhaps...) The combination came some 16 ...

Eversheds originated as a tie-up in the 1980s between four small firms in Norwich, Birmingham, Cardiff and Newcastle. It expended to become a national stalwart, then in the 2000s added international ...

Axiom Ince staff have been left to fend for themselves as the firm tells clients it is closing and police launch an investigation. Departing partners have informed clients that the business is winding ...

'I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can do that.' Baker McKenzie is laying off up to a tenth of its global business services workforce as part of a reorganisation driven in part by its increased use of AI.

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 ...

Over 8,000 people working in law firms told RollOnFriday how satisfied they were with their pay, work/life balance, career development, management, and their firm's culture. The results provide a ...

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 ...

It's all being done very discreetly. Slaughter and May is clamping down on lawyers who aren’t turning up to the office by tracking when they enter the building, and sharing their attendance data with ...