Slaughter and May has announced the introduction of a new scheme, which allows associates to reduce their working hours for less pay, enabling them the “time to pursue other interests and maintain a greater work/life balance”.

Magic circle firm Slaughter and May has set social mobility targets, aiming to increase the representation of lawyers and other employees from lower socioeconomic backgrounds in the firm. 

Clifford Chance has launched a new range of diversity and inclusion targets around gender, ethnicity and LGBT+.

City firms Allen & Overy, Weil Gotshal & Manges and Herbert Smith have all landed advisory roles on the potential sale of The College of Law - the country’s biggest provider of legal education.

The “macho culture” at chambers and the overall extent of gender inequality at the Bar “invites a level of wonder”, according to a new report by a specialist discrimination law firm.

The Lawyer reports that City firm Macfarlanes has widened the scope of its flexible working strategy in an effort to get more women into senior positions.

London-based Macfarlanes LLP has released its gender pay gap data, becoming only the second City law firm to include partners’ pay in its results after Allen & Overy LLP revealed its partner gender pay gap data in September.

From Macfarlanes’ vacation scheme through to the various social mobility programmes on offer at the firm, Isabella Strafford-Antonio outlines the work Macfarlanes is doing to improve access to the profession. Find out how you can get involved with these schemes in this Meet the Recruiter. 

Finn Halton is a corporate tax lawyer at Macfarlanes. Find out why Finn pursued this area of law, how the firm has supported her and Finn’s top tips for aspiring lawyers.

Macfarlanes LLP has announced a partnership with HarveyAI, an OpenAI-backed tool that’s designed specifically to assist with legal work.

Macfarlanes has become the third firm to adopt a "CV-blind" policy to combat unconscious bias and elitism in its recruitment.

Macfarlanes' graduate recruitment partner John Hornby talks about Bristol Law School’s staff/student cricket match and explains why the firm got involved.

Phew, it’s fair to say that it’s been another unprecedented week in British politics, and it looks like this unpredictability and chaos will continue until 31 October, and undoubtedly well beyond.