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Bombshell evidence has emerged in the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry this week showing that Womble Bond Dickinson advised its client to "suppress" incriminating information "in a way that looks ...
Two Womble Bond Dickinson partners have defended their roles in the wrongful prosecution of sub-postmasters at the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry, although the view of a WBD associate watching ...
CMS has taken “decisive action” against an HR employee who posted offensive tweets about Islam. Dan Cooper was an International Senior HR Business Partner for the firm and described himself in his ...
Pragnesh Modhwadia has admitted that the £64m which went walkabouts from Axiom Ince’s client account has already been spent. Responding to the firm’s freezing order, which was revealed by RollOnFriday ...
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. The judgment in For Women ...
Several firms won their staff's admiration for their astute decision-making as the Covid crisis overtook the business calendar, but others risked losing the confidence of their people through 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 ...
Unlikley victorA legal awards company has shown its arse by naming a disgraced struck off solicitor as one of the best lawyers in the UK. SME News gave Alan Blacker two prizes: ‘Best Pro Bono Legal ...
One of the world’s largest legal recruiting companies has deleted all references to its commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, ROF can reveal. Major, Lindsey & Africa has quietly removed reams ...
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 ...
Now suing MumsnetThe transgender lawyer who has accused Father Ted scribe Graham Linehan of transphobia and is suing him for harassment was once convicted of affray for threatening a man with a golf ...
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 ...