News

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.
The sky-high pay of newly-qualified solicitors is fuelling significant resentment around salaries in private practice, RollOnFriday’s Best Law Firms to Work At 2024 has revealed. ‘NQ NV’ was by far ...
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 ...
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 ...
Law firm staff are split over policies brought in by their firms which embrace gender identity ideology, with some saying they are too scared of the potential professional repercussions to raise ...
I don’t think anyone expects a particularly good work life balance when they are working in a big law firm (I don’t mean the likes of DACB) and part of the reason for high pay is to compensate you for ...
At the hearing, Williams accepted that he opened the email and that there was no evidence that he disagreed with the “concerning” advice, but he said he couldn’t recall reading it. Elsewhere it was ...
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 ...
Sub-postmaster’s life was ‘ruined’A Womble Bond Dickinson partner is set to be grilled for his role in the prosecution of a sub-postmaster whose life was ruined by false allegations of theft. Stephen ...
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 ...
BNP Paribas' head of legal for Equity Capital Markets called an Asian colleague a "Cheeky Chink", RollOnFriday can reveal, while another senior lawyer declared that his managers at the bank were ...
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 ...