Now that Lawbot3000 has replaced all his colleagues, he has to make office small talk with himself. RollOnFriday’s Best Law Firms to Work At 2026 survey is well underway, with over 2,000 respondents ...

Goodhead and the Emiliano hotel, a great place from which to coordinate global justice. The barrister who led class action specialist Pogust Goodhead until he was ousted in a boardroom coup has denied ...

Liemaxxing: how it didn't happen. A former Slaughter and May associate has been struck off for lying on a pupillage application. Maximilian Campbell, who trained at Linklaters, applied to Erskine ...

RollOnFriday has been told that Freshfields is making 20 staff in the finance team redundant. A source said that apparently around half the affected staff are paralegals, "including some on maternity ...

A law firm has opened its new office in style by giving pride of place to a £25,000 transparent, self-playing piano. Shakespeare Martineau, which is part of the Ampas group of professional services ...

From humble beginnings in Plymouth, Bond Dickinson (formerly Bond Pearce until its merger with Dickinson Dees on 1st May 2013) has grown to become a serious commercial contender. The Bristol office in ...

Clifford Chance, the product of a merger in 1987 between Coward Chance and Clifford Turner, used to be looked down on as the new kid on the block by the more established members of the Magic Circle.

Stevens & Bolton (or S&B, at the time of writing) doesn’t have any bolt-ons – it’s a single office in Guilford where around 150 lawyers seem to be having a pretty good time of it. A one site approach ...

Norton Rose joined the club of truly global firms in 2012 when it merged with US firm Fulbright & Jaworski LLP, to become Norton Rose Fulbright. The firm is now based in over 50 cities, and has a ...

Founded in New York in 1875, Paul, Weiss is one of the big beasts of US law. And the only one with an oddly-placed comma. Today, Paul, Weiss has more than 1,000 lawyers in 10 offices around the world.

Back in the day, legacy Beachcroft went through a phase of desperately trying to reinvent itself – it dropped the “Wansbroughs” from its name and moved into flashy new offices in Bristol (“rather like ...

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 ...