RollOnFriday

RollOnFriday

Type of site	Lawyers Information
Owner	RollOnFriday Limited
Created by	Matthew Rhodes Piers Warburton
URL	http://www.rollonfriday.com/
Launched	2000

RollOnFriday (also known as ROF) is a British website designed and used in the legal profession, for law students to qualified solicitors and barristers including Kings's Counsel. Its readership includes journalists and outside audiences.

History and content

The site was established in 2000 by Matthew Rhodes and Piers Warburton. The two met while solicitors at the London law firm Ashurst (where Warburton still works as a partner). Warburton said at the time that the site was intended to be 'young, irreverent and a bit cheeky'.

From launch, the site provided weekly news stories, detailed information on individual law firms - including the salaries they pay - and weekly features such as 'glamorous solicitor' showcasing some of the more interesting looking of the world's lawyers.

In 2001, the website launched the discussion board and more recently has developed a jobs database and other recruitment facilities. Over the years, the site has grown in popularity and is now an established part of the legal market. Over 50 of the UK's leading law firms use it as a means of advertising and make use of its graduate and lateral recruitment databases: Fast Track and Make Me An Offer.

The website had a major revamp at the end of May 2009 and another in 2018.

Hate speech or free speech?

The Discussion Board frequently contains topics and comments of a racist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, sexist and Islamophobic nature. Some users discuss that whilst they have reported this content as being in breach of the platform's Terms of Use it is rare that any steps are taken to remove it. This may reflect a deliberate choice by the content moderators whose reporting on "culture war" issues is frequently partial with a noticeably hostile bias when covering the transgender community and its allies.

Advertisers

Firms currently advertising on the site include:

A&O Shearman, Addleshaw Goddard, Ashurst Perkins Coie, Baker MacKenzie, BCLP, Bird & Bird, Burges Salmon, Clarke Willmott, Cleary Gottlieb, Clifford Chance, Clyde & Co, CMS, Dechert, Dentons, DLA Piper, DWF, Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer, HFW, Hill Dickinson, Hogan Lovells Cadwalader, Kennedys, Kirkland & Ellis, Linklaters, Macfarlanes, Mayer Brown, Mischon de Reya, Morrison Foerster, Osborne Clarke, Paul Weiss, Pinsent Masons, Ropes & Gray, Rosenblatt, RPC, Sackers, Shoosmiths, Slaughter and May, Stevens & Bolton, Sullivan & Cromwell, TLT, Travers Smith, Weill, White & Case, Winkworth Sherwood & Withers.

Mentions from outside

On occasion, stories are broken on the website, legal and otherwise, which are taken up in national newspapers. The following is a list of some outside mentions.

National newspapers

The Times

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,200-2177760.html

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The Independent

The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2004/may/08/pay.careers

The Daily Telegraph

Legal journals

The Lawyer

http://www.thelawyer.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=106327&d=11&h=24&f=23

The Law Society Gazette

http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/features/view=feature.law?FEATUREID=241307

Universities

Various UK and overseas universities recommend the site to law students for information about UK law firms

University of Hull

http://www.hull.ac.uk/law/courses/ug/lawyer.html

Imperial College

https://www.union.ic.ac.uk/scc/law/links.html

Lancaster University

https://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/law/current/resources/careers/index.htm

the University of Victoria

http://cdo.law.uvic.ca/CareerResearch.html

External links

• RollOnFriday