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 ...

Goodhead and the Emiliano hotel, a great place from which to coordinate global justice. The barrister who led class action specialist Pogust Goodhead until he was ousted in a boardroom coup has denied ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A law firm has ended its membership of a diversity scheme run by Stonewall citing concerns over its recent actions, saying it can no longer support the LGBTQ+ charity. Moon Beever, based in Gray's Inn ...