A barrister has reported himself to the Bar Standards Board for reacting rudely to provocative tweets. Francis Hoar overstepped the mark while engaged in a heated exchange with fellow X debater ...

" What do we want? No resits! When don't we want them? Now, or at any time in the academic year". Fuming students have fired off an irate letter to The University of Law after an exam they took was ...

Staff at Browne Jacobson received very unwelcome Secret Santa surprises this year, when Christmas vouchers turned out to be compulsory IT training. Browne Jacobson had sent out a staff survey and said ...

It'll probably be more cuddly than this. Freshfields is rolling out resilience training workshops to prepare Gen Z for the rigours of City law, just after one of its first apprentices resigned after ...

No hamsters were harmed in the draw. But one intern was sent to A&E. A Taylor Wessing mastermind has been crowned the brainiest reader of 2025 by winning RollOnFriday's Christmas Quiz. Despite ...

The Lowestoft branch of Norton Peskett and, inset, Potter. A law firm was allegedly the victim of a blackmail plot masterminded by a bearded transwoman from Norwich. Ella Potter is alleged to have ...

ROF's coverage of lavish Axiom Ince parties featuring flashing neon 'AXIOM MOFOS' signs failed to ring alarm bells, somehow. The insurer of Axiom Ince is suing the Solicitors Regulation Authority for ...

One Slaughters lawyer says, "people at the firm love it. People outside it seem to think it's a fate worse than death. It just goes to show what a lot of nonsense you hear". So is the perception ...

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 ...

Possibly unfairly, Baker McKenzie is most famous for its size. Based in Chicago, it now has 78 offices in 47 jurisdictions and a total of around 4,700 fee earners worldwide. And a whopping 13,000 ...

An international giant, Sidley Austin - where alumni include, inter alia, Michelle Obama and her husband - is traditionally a structured finance-heavy firm. Currently running at about 100 lawyers in ...

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 ...