Winner of the Golden Turd 2018 - but it's improved since then, placing 27th out of 61 firms in 2022.

Founded in Boston in 1865, Ropes & Gray now has around 1,400 lawyers and 12 offices - six in the US, three in Asia, and one apiece in London, Dublin and Paris. With a focus on corporate work and in ...

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Axiom Ince staff have been left to fend for themselves as the firm tells clients it is closing and police launch an investigation. Departing partners have informed clients that the business is winding ...

At least no-one's overreacting. 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 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 legal awards company which garlanded Alan Blacker with prizes has revoked his honours. RollOnFriday pointed out last week that SME News had bestowed the titles ‘Best Pro Bono Legal Services ...

'Surely someone's coming soon.' BDB Pitmans, long open about its desire for a merger, has agreed to become the founding block of a new law firm being built by a US management consultancy. The firm ...

It can take years to bed in a great culture, which means the firms which have it don’t generally appear overnight. The triumvirate of firms in the top spot – Burges Salmon, Osborne Clarke, and Travers ...

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 ...

A judge whose brother-in-law wouldn't stop accusing him of fiddling a will has been granted an injunction. When Juliet Pattinson’s mother died in 2022, she and her husband, District Judge Tim ...