Legal sector

Staff at law firm Stephenson Harwood can choose to permanently work from home with less pay.

Since December 2021, the EHRC's Race Legal Support Fund has been available to lawyers representing victims of racial discrimination.

Law firm Irwin Mitchell will give most staff a £900 one-off payment this month to help them deal with the...

What should employers consider when implementing initiatives to support and enhance the wellbeing of their employees?

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has proposed changes to its rules that would explicitly require law firms to challenge employees who...

Criminal barristers have voted almost unanimously in favour of industrial action over what they describe as ‘chronic underfunding’ of the criminal justice system.

A lawyer has been fined and reprimanded after describing female barristers as ‘hysterical’ and ‘overemotional’.

Diversity within law firms is improving, but larger firms are lagging behind smaller ones across several measures.

The Midlands-based workers faced having their wages cut as part of a change to their terms and conditions of employment by Tesco.

Professional services firms take a more liberal approach to working from home guidance under Plan B.

Decentralised law firms benefit from the 'work anywhere' ethos and boom in online meetings.

HR must work with business leaders, managers and partners to develop successful hybrid working cultures after being thrust into the...

The fifth annual Social Mobility Index, published last week, was the biggest yet, with 203 organisations representing 1.35 million people taking part.

All three firms on the shortlist for employment law firm of the year showed great agility and dedication to client needs throughout the Covid pandemic.

A new study of law firms has revealed a degree of progress in diversity and a more complex pattern of identity .