Legal sector

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.

A survey of 2,000 young people by KPMG found that social class and nepotism have a major role in accessing work experience.

A law firm partner has been fined £45,000 after singing a lewd song to a colleague at a Christmas party.

The GMB union has opened its first branch for judges – a sector not usually associated with trade union representation....

Prosecuting barristers' pay increases in line with their counterparts on the defence, the director of public prosecutions confirms.

A law firm wants its employees to be ‘wildly fabulous’ and dress to impress at work. Meanwhile, an HR firm has delved online to discover the most awkward questions asked by workers.

Former Twitter workers in the UK have sought legal advice over their recent redundancies, which they have described as a...

Kate Evans has been appointed chief people officer for EMEA at the global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright.

Alan Milburn: despite the forward moves made by many firms there were still problems and that this year had seen a reduction in the quality of many submissions

More female lawyers in the UK than men are dissatisfied with their employers – to the extent that 36% are at risk of leaving their firm over the next two years.

New research has shown that 25% of corporate legal departments now use diversity data when deciding which law firms they work with.