Let your next career move come to you. News. February 2025

Nov 1, 2024 · "This will include exploring the more radical solution of whether we should stop law firms holding client money.” should read: "This will include exploring the sensible solution of checking more carefully whether firms under financial pressure are adhering to the rules on holding client money and applying a higher level of close supervision and scrutiny at firms (and at the sole cost of ...

Nov 15, 2024 · An Eversheds Sutherland partner used his car to trap a pregnant associate in the office car park when she took his space - and then demanded a written apology from her.. Parking spaces are allocated on request at the firm’s Cardiff office, but the female associate ('PW'), broke the rules and snuck in without having reserved a spot.

Dec 20, 2024 · March. The tragic death of Pinsent Masons partner Vanessa Ford prompted a debate on ROF about the importance of a healthy work/life balance.. The pressure to bill was cited by an NQ who was struck off for inflating time sheets, and the view time padding was commonplace was echoed by lawyers, and a reader poll.. In ROF’s joint-favourite story of the year, a Travers Smith solicitor on ...

Nov 29, 2024 · The FoIA request would probably get knocked back based on the absolute exemption in section 32. However, this is a total disgrace. I have put an FoIA request into the SRA for number of Decisions it has issued that have not been published.

Nov 15, 2024 · Freshfields associates in London are awarded top bonuses if they exceed 2,150 hours a year, according to a pay chart leaked to RollOnFriday.. A source said the firm is having a strong push to increase hours. The insider said partners at the firm were initially "quite smug" when Freshfields was the first Magic Circle firm to raise NQ salary to £150k, as "they didn't think other MC firms would ...

Oct 25, 2024 · RollOnFriday’s Best Law Firms to Work At 2025 survey is open and awaiting your judgment.. Simply rate, anonymously, how satisfied you are with your pay, career development, work/life balance, the management, the office and amenities, and the culture.. It’s the legal profession’s biggest survey of satisfaction, measuring which firms are joyful, which have people muddling along in an ...

Jan 10, 2025 · As the two parties set a course for mutual assured destruction, RBG’s share price tanked to 1p. On Friday morning RBG released another notice, this time attempting to reassure the market that "Further to speculative comments which have appeared recently in the press, the Board of RBG Holdings plc confirms that the Company continues to trade and enjoy the support of its principal creditors ...

Dec 20, 2024 · Along with John Lewis adverts, brussels sprouts and that uncle who spouts wildly offensive views over Christmas lunch, the RollOnFriday Christmas quiz has become a festive tradition.

Nov 1, 2024 · Humza Yousaf, the former first minister in Scotland, has apologised to a senior barrister for referring to him as a "Tory f*ckwit". Yousaf used the slur against Roddy Dunlop KC, the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, in a WhatsApp conversation, which was released following of Freedom of Information request by a member of the public.