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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.
Senior lawyers blame salary bunching on the NQ pay war - and the resentment is turning inwards. The sky-high pay of newly-qualified solicitors is fuelling significant resentment around salaries in ...
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 ...
Bombshell evidence has emerged in the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry this week showing that Womble Bond Dickinson advised its client to "suppress" incriminating information "in a way that looks ...
Several firms won their staff's admiration for their astute decision-making as the Covid crisis overtook the business calendar, but others risked losing the confidence of their people through a ...
Pragnesh Modhwadia has admitted that the £64m which went walkabouts from Axiom Ince’s client account has already been spent. Responding to the firm’s freezing order, which was revealed by RollOnFriday ...
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 ...
An A&O Shearman partner has resigned from the firm after being convicted of drink driving. The partner was stopped by police earlier this year while he was driving his Porsche Cayenne in the New ...
A black trainee solicitor felt "humiliated...vulnerable and targeted" when police stopped him for "looking suspicious", while he was on his way to visit a client. Eldred Taylor-Camara, who works on ...
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's Johannesburg office was run by an old boy's club which "bullied", "demeaned" and "degraded" those who worked there, former staff have told RollOnFriday. The firm has vowed to overhaul ...
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 Dilley, a partner who now runs WBD ...