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Employment
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COMPENSATION
SNCF loses class action suit over discrimination
SNCF, the French state rail operator, faces a huge legal bill after losing a 16 year battle with former employees who had suffered racial discrimination.
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CAREERS
BigLaw refugees turn to NewLaw firms for quality of life
NewLaw is offering innovative business models and better work-iife balance than BigLaw, according to law professor Joan Williams of the University of California at Hastings.
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ROBOTICS
Lawyer jobs in decline because of AI, says Stanford Uni lecturer
Lawyer jobs are vulnerable to the progress of artificial intelligence, according to the author of new title 'Humans need not apply'. Jerry Kaplan is a lecturer on the legal informatics course at Stanford University.
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TOUGH ENVIRONMENTS
Legal profession cited as example of brutal environment by NY Times
A New York Times article inspired by employee unhappiness at Amazon describes the legal sector as 'one of the most brutal' regarding employee commitment.
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FREELANCE SERVICES
Rajah & Tann follows A&O in launching contract lawyer service
Singapore-headquartered Rajah & Tann is launching a contract lawyer business. It will begin through a network of the firm's own alumni, who will work as in-house freelance legal advisers.
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HOME WORKING
Herbert Smith to introduce flexible working across London teams
After a three-month trial, Herbert Smith Freehills is extending an agile working programme from a group of partners and other fee-earners to cover all its practice groups in London.
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LAWYER PERKS
Indian lawyers live in luxury as firms compete for talent
The Amarchand Mangaldas split has created a wave of pay hikes and poaching, with big and even mid-sized law firms forced to compete to retain top talent.
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PERKS
Over 40pc of top UK firms supply doctors in offices
With over four in ten leading UK law firms offering medical consultations with a doctor in the office, nearly two in ten also bring dentists in to look after the well being of their partners and staff.
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OFFICE OPENINGS
Littler follows energy boom to open in Austin, Texas
Littler, the employment law firm, is opening a new office in Austin - which it describes as 'one of the nation's most dynamic and growing cities' - by relocating three of its shareholders from Dallas.
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EMPLOYMENT LAW
Littler expands into Canada taking team from Kuretzky Vassos
The world's largest employment law firm acting for management has opened in Toronto, taking six lawyers from boutique Kuretzky Vassos Henderson and a seventh from Cassels Brock.
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EMPLOYMENT
Abercrombie and Fitch settle religious discrimination suit
On July 20 2015, the EEOC issued a statement announcing the federal appeals court's decision to dismiss Abercrombie & Fitch's appeal of the EEOC's religious discrimination case.
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REPUTATION
Lawyer declares the end of private lives for employees
A lawyer in New Zealand has said that the behaviour of employees 'even if they are on their own time' will be taken into account by employers - referring to a case in which two government workers were recently suspended in relation to a video.
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GLOBAL EXPANSION
Portolano Cavallo launches in New York
The Italian firm's US office will be headed up by resident partner Yan Pecoraro.
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PARTNERSHIP
Young partners wobble under weight of funding retired partner pensions
Even the best-financed US law firms are aware of a looming problem: the financing of generous partner pensions, which can start at $250,000 per year in some practices.
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PENSIONS FREEDOM
Law firms face prospect of senior lawyers being too poor to retire
A liberalisation of UK pension laws this year is leaving law firms wondering if there is a danger that their older staff 'may not want to or may not be able to afford to retire because they have not saved enough or have spent their pension funds'.
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