Liemaxxing: how it didn't happen. A former Slaughter and May associate has been struck off for lying on a pupillage application. Maximilian Campbell, who trained at Linklaters, applied to Erskine ...

A law firm has opened its new office in style by giving pride of place to a £25,000 transparent, self-playing piano. Shakespeare Martineau, which is part of the Ampa group of professional services ...

In case you needed to know. Just because metoo is out of the headlines, it doesn’t mean there aren’t still (and, it seems safe to say, always will be) male lawyers unable to keep their hands to ...

Founded in Boston in 1865, Ropes & Gray now has around 1,400 lawyers and 12 offices - six in the US, three in Asia, and one apiece in London, Dublin and Paris. With a focus on corporate work and in ...

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, ...

Stevens & Bolton (or S&B, at the time of writing) doesn’t have any bolt-ons – it’s a single office in Guilford where around 150 lawyers seem to be having a pretty good time of it. A one site approach ...

Clifford Chance, the product of a merger in 1987 between Coward Chance and Clifford Turner, used to be looked down on as the new kid on the block by the more established members of the Magic Circle.

Norton Rose joined the club of truly global firms in 2012 when it merged with US firm Fulbright & Jaworski LLP, to become Norton Rose Fulbright. The firm is now based in over 50 cities, and has a ...

Founded in New York in 1875, Paul, Weiss is one of the big beasts of US law. And the only one with an oddly-placed comma. Today, Paul, Weiss has more than 1,000 lawyers in 10 offices around the world.

From humble beginnings in Plymouth, Bond Dickinson (formerly Bond Pearce until its merger with Dickinson Dees on 1st May 2013) has grown to become a serious commercial contender. The Bristol office in ...

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 ...

Staff at US firm Sidley Austin (92%) are the most satisfied with their pay in UK private practice, the RollOnFriday Best Law Firms to Work At 2022 has found. "It’s embarrassing that it’s published," ...