Adjacent to the work undertaken by law firms and legal departments, alternative legal and consulting services have seen incredible growth over the past decade.
Freshfields has published its gender pay gap since 2017 and has voluntarily shared its ethnicity pay gap since 2018. The firm’s mean gender pay gap for 2021, published this month, comes in at 52.1%, representing a decrease from last year’s result of 54.5%. In 2019, the gap stood at 57.2%. As such, this year’s results […]
Latham & Watkins has taken on two mental health professionals to offer counselling to UK employees amid growing concerns over burnout in the legal sector, exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. Previously, the firm offered counselling sessions to employees in its other offices but has now extended this initiative to cover more locations, such as London, […]
Linklaters and Norton Rose Fulbright have become the latest law firms to take action in response to Russia’s unprovoked attack on Ukraine, joining other big names such as Allen & Overy. On Friday, Linklaters, which opened its office in the Russian capital in 1992, announced that “after careful consideration” it has decided to shut its […]
“We are reviewing our Russia-related portfolio”, Allen & Overy wrote in a statement posted on LinkedIn. “As a result, we will refuse new instructions and stop all Russia-linked work that goes against our values. We will, naturally, vigorously implement all political decisions and comply with applicable sanctions and rules.” Allen & Overy’s statement is one […]
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