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April 2012

As UK firms' partnership promotion statistics start to flood in, RollOnFriday statisticians have been working out which firms offer the best chance of
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Alastair Cowan, a former Dickson Minto lawyer, and currently a senior associate at HBJ Gateley Wareing, has avoided being prosecuted after being rumbl
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Dundas & Wilson has confirmed that 28 members of staff will lose their jobs as the firm's
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In-house lawyer Katie Metz has written Stiletto Safari, a novel about a New York lawyer who chucks it all in to become a wildlife volunteer i
Simmons & Simmons is joining the outsourcing race by opening an off
A senior associate at Allens Arthur Robinson has been allowed to keep his job despite being found guilty of assault by Melbourne Magistrates' Court.
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March 2012

Former AFL star Ben Cousins has been arrested at Perth airport after police claim they found methylamphetamine secreted in his rectum.
Police chiefs in South Wales were forced to apologise after an over-zealous policeman threatened to arrest a shop owner for selling bongs, mistakenly
After last week's spectacular revelation of the lines penned to Ince &
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Maclay Murray & Spens looks on course to post a woeful trainee retention score, after insiders told RollOnFriday that the firm has just 13 jobs on
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Former Hogan Lovells litigation supremo Christopher Grierson pleaded gui
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A major Irish firm is hunting around for €25 million after a punishing judgement in the Irish High Court.
Trainees and associates at Allen & Overy are keeping their fingers c
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US firm Dewey & LeBoeuf has told RollOnFriday that discussions with its bankers "are proceeding as expected", as rumours circulate that i
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The former captain of New Zealand's cricket team, Chris Cairns, has won his UK libel case over match fixing allegations made against him by the former
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The Solicitors Regulation Authority has published a dire warning on its website, telling wannabe solicitors that they may be paid just £2.60 an hour d
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