The 2004 tie-up between Pinsents and Masons caught very few people by surprise - both had been falling behind national rivals DLA and Eversheds and were desperate to increase their national coverage.

‘Disgusting but true’: Colleagues are the best thing about our firms, say hundreds of staff ...

Kirkland & Ellis is a megabucks US firm which brings its largesse to its London office, pegging pay to the dollar, and a very large amount of dollar it is, too. Highly-regarded for private equity, ...

Understandable if you get Brussels, but this is a knock for the Netherlands and UAE. Freshfields trainees have accused the firm of giving two sisters in their cohort plum secondments because they're ...

A solicitor suspended from practice for a year for tricking an 82-year-old farmer has published a column bemoaning the state of ethics in the legal profession. In an opinion piece headed “Ethics 101” ...

Possibly unfairly, Baker McKenzie is most famous for its size. Based in Chicago, it now has 78 offices in 47 jurisdictions and a total of around 4,700 fee earners worldwide. And a whopping 13,000 ...

A Goodwin Procter spokesperson confirmed to RollOnFriday that the table was accurate and reflected its current salary scale, and said it was established when pay was raised across the board last June, ...

"Don't worry Mr K, we agree that because of X, the time you made Y use a J to T, while shouting R, should not be disclosed to Z." The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal will conduct a review into its ...

Two law firm staff have been banned from the profession for dealing drugs to their friends after they were caught with cocaine-measuring paraphernalia in a police raid. Jordan Heeley, 31, and ...

Give it a month, maybe Adam & Adam will be the ones laughing. A trainee has been banned from law for lying about why she requested annual leave. Steph Merrill told Shropshire firm Lanyon Bowdler that ...

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 ...

Burges Salmon, Osborne Clarke and TLT are the firms that dominate the Bristol legal scene and it's fair to say that BS is doing very well indeed - certainly according to its lawyers. The firm was the ...