Legal sector

Shakespeare Martineau’s innovative use of technology caught the judges’ eyes in the Employment Law Firm of the Year category at the Personnel Today Awards 2024.

A lawyer was dismissed for sexually assaulting a female colleague despite CCTV evidence showing her account of the incident was false.

Proposed merged law firm Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer (HSF Kramer) would become one of top 20 firms in the world.

There has been an increase in technology and creative sector employers on the Social Mobility Index for 2024.

A series of departures by senior employees led to the collapse of a US law firm’s London office, it has been revealed.

As business secretary between 2010 and 2015, Cable revealed that officials did not consider Horizon issues to be serious enough to bring to his attention.

Refusal to attend the office for at least three days a week will lead to partners at one City law firm with negative performance reviews.

A law firm receptionist who could not answer the phone with the correct name has lost her claims for harassment and discrimination.

How can law firms really address diversity and inclusion in a sector that has traditionally lagged behind?

The High Court has ruled that a decision by Dominic Raab to increase defence solicitors’ pay by less than he had been advised broke the law.

Slaughter and May monitors entry and exit data from its office gates in bid to force staff to limit working from home to two days.

Burges Salmon won the 2023 Employment Law Firm of the Year title at the Personnel Today Awards. 

The ‘dire state’ of the UK’s criminal justice system has led both criminal solicitors’ associations to urge lawyers to join union Unite.

PwC tops the Social Mobility Employers Index again but Social Mobility Foundation calls on government to tackle unpaid internships.

Research across professional services firms, including in the legal sector, has revealed confusion over the adoption of generative AI.