The owner of a firm has been struck off, after it emerged that he misappropriated over £163,000 of client funds. Charles Ogbonna Azotam, admitted in 2013, was the sole principal at immigration firm ...

White & Case’s London office is one of the most venerable in the City, having been around since 1971. So it's safe to say that it looks set, along with competitors Shearman & Sterling (er - scratch ...

In 2024, Allen & Overy merged with US firm Shearman & Sterling, minting A&O Shearman and creating a beast comprising approximately 7,000 people, 4,000 lawyers and 800 partners across 47 offices, with ...

Back in the day, legacy Beachcroft went through a phase of desperately trying to reinvent itself – it dropped the “Wansbroughs” from its name and moved into flashy new offices in Bristol (“rather like ...

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 ...

The SRA will take no action against a Fieldfisher associate who was found to have deliberately lied in her account of being sexually assaulted by a colleague. The regulator was investigating the ...

Staff at DAC Beachcroft (83%) are the most satisfied with their work/life balance in UK private practice, the RollOnFriday Best Law Firms to Work At 2022 has found. The firm was praised for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Baker McKenzie has "parted ways" with Dr Habib Al Mulla, its most senior partner in the United Arab Emirates, after a RollOnFriday investigation found he was using Twitter to preach to his 61,000 ...

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 ...