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Cheating, skiving and rat corpses: Lawyers' most startling comments about their firms - RollOnFriday

Nov 8, 2024 | rollonfriday.com

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White & Case to pay newly qualified solicitors £170k, and 2PQEs £200k

Aug 2, 2024 | rollonfriday.com | Jamie Hamilton

White & Caseload of cash. White & Case is raising salaries for its newly-qualified solicitors to £175k, and giving significant pay rises to its other junior lawyers as well. Effective from 1 January 2025, the firm will raise its NQ salary from £150k to £175k, placing it very much towards the top end of the ongoing NQ pay war, where big bucks US firms now shower London NQs with salaries of £170k+.
Judge granted injunction against his brother-in-law after funeral fallout

Aug 2, 2024 | rollonfriday.com | Jamie Hamilton

'My chattels. Mine!'A judge whose brother-in-law wouldn't stop accusing him of fiddling a will has been granted an injunction. When Juliet Pattinson’s mother died in 2022, she and her husband, District Judge Tim Pattinson, were appointed executors of her will. Juliet Pattinson was left certain items and the ability to select others if she wanted them, plus a gift of £100,000.
Judge granted injunction against his brother-in-law

Aug 1, 2024 | rollonfriday.com | Jamie Hamilton

'My chattels. Mine!'A judge whose brother-in-law wouldn't stop accusing him of fiddling a will has been granted an injunction. When Juliet Pattinson’s mother died in 2022, she and her husband, District Judge Tim Pattinson, were appointed executors of her will. Juliet Pattinson was left certain items and the ability to select others if she wanted them, plus a gift of £100,000.
Linklaters manages 78% trainee retention as Herbert Smith Freehills hits 98%

Aug 1, 2024 | rollonfriday.com | Jamie Hamilton

'And I'm going to qualify in London, yes?'Linklaters has announced its trainee retention rate after redistributing a number of newly-qualified solicitors from its shuttered Moscow office. The magic circle firm is keeping 46 out of 59 NQs in its September cohort, equivalent to 78%. Rather than let them go and blame extenuating circumstances, 11 of the trainees in its Moscow office were sprinkled across Links’ network after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine led to the firm closing down the office.
Judge shows red card to Kyle Walker’s wannabe WAG

Aug 1, 2024 | rollonfriday.com | Jamie Hamilton

No VAR needed for this verdict. A judge has ridiculed a wannabe WAG for her outrageous demands. After an affair with Manchester City Football Club and England star Kyle Walker spawned two children, Lauryn Goodman applied to gold-plate the financial support he had agreed to provide. Although Judge Hess stated in his juicy judgment that “it is certainly not the role of the Financial Remedies Court to make moral judgments”, he still found a way to express his disdain.
White & Case to pay newly qualified solicitors £175k, and 2PQEs £200k

Aug 1, 2024 | rollonfriday.com | Jamie Hamilton

White & Caseload of cash. White & Case is raising salaries for its newly-qualified solicitors to £175k, and giving significant pay rises to its other junior lawyers as well. Effective from 1 January 2025, the firm will raise its NQ salary from £150k to £175k, placing it very much towards the top end of the ongoing NQ pay war, where big bucks US firms now shower London NQs with salaries of £170k+.
EXCLUSIVE Wanted lawyer condemns SRA after overturning ban

Aug 1, 2024 | rollonfriday.com | Jamie Hamilton

Free to practise, also wanted. The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal has overturned the SRA's ban of an unregulated lawyer it accused of holding himself out as a solicitor. Complicating matters is the fact the individual, Ryan Herrmann, is currently wanted by the police for allegedly skipping a court hearing. Speaking to RollOnFriday, Herrmann said both cases against him were a "shambles" and that he was going to hold those responsible to account.
Costs lawyer stabbed intervening in Southport tragedy

Aug 1, 2024 | rollonfriday.com | Jamie Hamilton

Hayes, middle, with employees. A lawyer who was stabbed while trying to stop the attacker in Southport is recovering in hospital. John Hayes, the managing director of Calculus Cost Legal, heard screams from his office next door and attempted to intervene and disarm the teenage assailant.
BDB Pitmans becomes Broadfield in consultancy's grand plan

Jul 25, 2024 | rollonfriday.com | Jamie Hamilton

'Surely someone's coming soon.'BDB Pitmans, long open about its desire for a merger, has agreed to become the founding block of a new law firm being built by a US management consultancy. The mid-market firm will rebrand as ‘Broadfield’ after signing a letter of intent to become the “first member” of a “new International law firm” launched by Alvarez & Marsal. The company specialises in turning around failing businesses and restructuring collapsed ones, most famously Lehman Brothers.