Just some of the characters who enlivened 2025. Called into the office by mealy-mouthed bosses for the joke week between Christmas and New Year? Take your revenge by reading RollOnFriday’s Review of ...

The merger of two UK firms Wragge & Co and LG went live on 1st May 2014 creating the £170m firm Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co. LG had been looking for a merger partner for a while and it wasn't having ...

A solicitor has been criticised for throwing what she described as a ‘council estate dinner’ which featured Fray Bentos pies and spam fritters. Sophie Murgatroyd posted on LinkedIn, ‘I love cooking ...

An employment judge has been accused of peppering a ruling with inaccurate and nonexistent quotes from other judgments. Scottish Employment Judge Sandy Kemp handed down his keenly-awaited judgment ...

An early blow to DLA Piper's 2027 trainee retantion rate. A budding lawfluencer who broadcast her qualms about the corporate world has quit her training contract two weeks in. Inês Pinheiro received ...

Freshfields has begun a redundancy process affecting paralegals, ROF has learned. Last week paralegals in the firm’s Manchester office were called into a meeting titled "Important Update", where ...

Hemp juice might have been ok. A law student has been jailed for attempting to smuggle £150k of cannabis through Edinburgh Airport. In August 2024, Sage-Ahliea Gold, 25, a student at the University of ...

The SRA will take no action against a Fieldfisher associate who was found to have deliberately lied in her account of being sexually assaulted by a colleague. The regulator was investigating the ...

An associate with ADHD and autism has claimed that Trowers & Hamlins unfairly dismissed her and subjected her to disability discrimination. ‘J’ is suing the firm for constructive unfair dismissal, ...

Times have changed at City firms from this bygone era (circa 2011). Irwin Mitchell has unveiled an all-female partnership promotion round, saying it is "not surprising" given its efforts to improve ...

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 ...

A solicitor whose philosophy is “plenty of smiles” said he was inspired to set up his own firm after he was ridiculed by his colleagues for being too nice. Harry “Just Ask Harry!” Suleman’s firm, ...