Just some of the characters who enlivened 2025. Called into the office by mealy-mouthed bosses for the joke week between Christmas and New Year? Take your revenge by reading RollOnFriday’s Review of ...

Hark, the herald angels sing, 'Better than a Burger King.' A personal injury solicitor has embodied the spirits of both Santa and Jesus this Christmas by buying an old man a McDonalds (and then ...

Richards Butler merged with US firm Reed Smith on 1st January 2007, taking a sleepy little London practice to an international leviathan. As with similar takeovers (see Gouldens/Jones Day), it wasn't ...

At first glance the homes seemed fully built. A paralegal has been rebuked by the SRA and a partner fined for wrongly authorising the release of £2.56m to a property developer which then went bust, ...

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 ...

Freshfields has begun a redundancy process affecting paralegals, ROF has learned. Last week paralegals in the firm’s Manchester office were called into a meeting titled "Important Update", where ...

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 ...

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 ...

It can take years to bed in a great culture, which means the firms which have it don’t generally appear overnight. The triumvirate of firms in the top spot – Burges Salmon, Osborne Clarke, and Travers ...

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 ...

Working 5 to 9, what a way to take a beasting. A recurring source of angst for people working in law firms is the flexible working policies adopted post-Covid, RollOnFriday’s Best Law Firms to Work At ...