A lawyer before and after eating a Halcyon bar. (Disclaimer: a RollOnFriday simulation, individual results may vary). A former Jones Day lawyer has left his legal career to launch a protein bar.

If only he hadn't added his face he would have gotten away with it, too. The manager of a law firm involved in a suspected £39m fraud has been banned from holding senior positions in regulated legal ...

Partners are going AWOL and failing to adequately supervise their juniors, clients have complained in RollOnFriday's In-House Lawyer Survey 2026. A GC in financial services said that firms should ...

McLeod refusing to accept delivery in Australia, a gremlin in the software, and Gould. The Solicitors Regulation Authority has referred the first two solicitors for prosecution in connection with the ...

Steer clear of football chat with the HLC duck at the launch party. Hogan Lovells and US firm Cadwalader's merger went live on Wednesday this week, creating the law behemoth Hogan Lovells Cadwalader ...

The good, the bad and the merger. Ashurst’s merger with US firm Perkins Coie has completed in what is regarded internally as not just a financial win, but a coup in the fight for the hearts and minds ...

The CEO of the group including Shakespeare Martineau, which installed a transparent piano in its office lobby, has been suspended by the company. Sarah Walker Smith is the chief executive of Ampa, the ...

Ashurst advise on the €518 million project bond and on the €90 million financing for Autostrada A3 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Baker McKenzie has terminated a lawyer’s employment after discovering that he has been accused of sexual misconduct by a colleague at his former firm. Stefano Mariani is due in court in Hong Kong to ...

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 ...