US law firm Fried Frank has joined a number of its competitors in awarding hefty year-end and special bonuses to its junior ...

One of the first big law firms to become an Alternative Business Structure (which allows non-lawyers to be partners), Irwin Mitchell has a reputation for innovation and business savvy. Over the ...

Not all partners at a firm are equity partners; some receive a fixed salary, often enjoying a better work-life balance.

A junior lawyer from Squire Patton Boggs (SPB) has reportedly been hospitalised after allegedly consuming “poisoned alcohol” ...

Penningtons Manches Cooper is the product of a 2014 merger between Penningtons and Manches, and a subsequent 2019 tie up with Thomas Cooper. Penningtons had a large private client team and a small ...

Legal Cheek‘s autumn 2024 UK Virtual Law Fair series has now concluded. The Fairs took place in September, October and November, with over 5,000 students signing up for each (over 15,000 in total).

We heard from lawyers across a wide range of practice areas, including medical negligence, data privacy, and public inquiries ...

Modestly branded as “a new type of law firm”, A&O Shearman (AOSS/AOS for short…or Allen & Overy Shearman and Sterling for long) is the result of a revolutionary 2024 mega-merger between ...

Having set up shop in the capital as Trollope & Winckworth in 1777, this established London outfit has since sprouted two further offices in Oxford and Manchester (though only London and Oxford ...

A judge has ruled that a 92-year-old dying woman’s decision to tear up her will, with assistance from her solicitor, was a valid demonstration of testamentary capacity.

Claire Louise Thomas, of Merthyr Tydfil, was disbarred this week following disciplinary by a bar tribunal. Although she is a ...

While the government has not yet confirmed which Level 7 programmes will lose levy funding, nor when a decision will be made, ...