Knights plc is infamous for acquiring firms and then shedding their business services staff, but now its lawyers say they are also seeing its ruthless streak. Sources told RollOnFriday a number of ...

A scathing children’s book intended to make energy solicitors rethink their life choices, Why Daddy’s Law Firm works with the Nice Oil Men, was recently published and RollOnFriday is pretty sure it ...

Macfarlanes will open a "representative office" in New York next month, although the new outpost will not provide US law advice. Macfarlanes has previously eschewed costly foreign offices in favour of ...

The merger of two UK firms Wragge & Co and LG went live on 1st May 2014 creating the £170m firm Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co. LG had been looking for a merger partner for a while and it wasn't having ...

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has taken emergency measures to prevent a solicitor convicted of stalking from being able to practise. Milne’s conviction earlier this month for stalking a court ...

A former Senior Partner has been suspended after making sexual comments to female colleagues at the firm's Christmas party. Timothy Eagle, who qualified in 1983, was the Senior Partner at Norfolk firm ...

Mishcon comes sprinkled with star dust. Or, at least, column inches. It takes cases that get attention: Gina Miller in relation to Article 50 and the proroguing of parliament; Deborah Lipstadt in her ...

A mid sized firm, unburdened by an overseas network, with a 100% equity partnership, strong profits and an aversion to merger. Back in the early '90s you could have said this about many firms - ...

Skadden is what New Yorkers call a "white shoe" firm (basically the Magic Circle of the US). Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom (snigger) is a New York based multinational with a world class ...

Debevoise London office may be small but it's magnificently well paid. The firm traditionally concentrated on the domestic market (its head office is in New York), but it’s started to expand in Europe ...

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 ...

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 ...