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RollOnFriday has uncovered discrepancies in Freshfields ’ diversity and inclusion data which cast doubt on its claims about its DEI achievements. The Magic Circle firm launched a five year Diversity ...
Everton Football Club's announcement that its new ground will be called the Hill Dickinson Stadium has been greeted with responses ranging from cautious approval to cruel mockery. The 52,888-capacity ...
A former law firm partner has been struck off the roll, following a rape conviction. Shah Syed Rashid Masood Sahib was a law firm manager and partner at Syeds Solicitors in Birmingham. The court ...
A judge has reprimanded a US lawyer for pasting a purple dragon watermark on each page of his submissions. Jacob A. Perrone, a lawyer in Michigan, recently launched his firm with a name fit for ...
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 ...
A solicitor whose philosophy is “plenty of smiles” said he was inspired to set up his own firm after he was ridiculed by his colleagues for being too nice. Harry “Just Ask Harry!” Suleman’s firm, ...
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 body which oversees legal regulators has raised “serious concerns” about the operation of both the Solicitors Regulation Authority and the Bar Standards Board. The Legal Services Board's annual ...
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 ...
The important thing is to keep it buried deep inside, so it can fester properly. Gen Z lawyers require "more handholding", a firm has said. US firm Gibson Dunn is hiring a professional support lawyer ...
Linklaters has set exams for its Artificial Intelligence programmes, to assess how much help they can provide to lawyers. The 'LinksAI English law benchmark' tests are designed to check if AI "can ...
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 ...