Practice Management

The “organisational culture” of the legal profession needs to change to tackle the ongoing problems of mental ill-health, bullying and harassment, major new research has found.

The ‘New Law’ arm of City firm Ashurst has created a formal career pathway for legal technology specialists to run in parallel with the traditional roles available to lawyers.

A legal recruitment specialist has launched what is believed to be the first automated data tool for law firm mergers to speed up the early stages of due diligence.

Smaller law firms have survived the pandemic well but are very worried about possible increases in the cost of their professional indemnity insurance, a report has found.

Partners at London law firm Mishcon de Reya have voted to press ahead with a premium listing on the stock exchange, with experts predicting more to follow.

Law firms must try harder to turn aspirations to improve their diversity into reality, according to an employed barrister who has founded a diversity consultancy.

There is a link between greater diversity and higher law firm profits, research in the US has found, “diversity of cognition” one of the key reasons.

The three senior executives at DWF – the only law firm listed on the main stock exchange – have been awarded 1.5m shares subject to the firm meeting certain performance targets by 2024.

Mishcon de Reya has become only the third UK law firm to gain ‘B Corporation’ certification to show it balances purpose with profit. It has changed its LLP agreement to reflect this.

Slater & Gordon dismissed a legal assistant over offensive Facebook posts on Muslims and Jimmy Savile, and not because she was pregnant, an employment tribunal has found.