Judge Rinder ‘litigant’ claims to have faked legal row to secure £5,000 ITV payout
Sam Horner took pal to TV courtroom after discovering show coughs up damages, according to report
Thomas Connelly
Thomas Connelly is a journalist specialising in visual content and social media. Having completed the BPTC at Northumbria University in 2012 he practised as a County Court advocate for a year before joining Legal Cheek in 2013.
Mishcon de Reya boosts NQ salaries by 6% to £67,000
Exclusive: As Bristows bumps junior lawyer pay by 5%
DWF keeps 66% of its autumn NQs
As Cleary Gottlieb posts perfect 100% result
Hogan Lovells to cut 90 London support staff as roles move to Birmingham and Johannesburg
In the same month Pinsent Masons revealed up to 100 PA jobs could go
Retention latest: HFW and Charles Russell Speechlys reveal September scores
Results of 80% and 71%
Ex-UEA criminal law lecturer who fled court during indecent images trial given three-and-half-years in prison
But he remains ‘a free man’
Judicial watchdog received over 400 complaints about judges making ‘inappropriate remarks’ last year
One judge called a defendant a ‘c**t’
DLA Piper keeps 75 NQs as Addleshaw Goddard retains 38 rookies
From sizeable cohorts come solid results
Clyde & Co and Berwin Leighton Paisner reveal trainee retention peformances
79% and 67% scores
Robot lawyer offering legal assistance to Equifax hack victims is UK bound
London-born student sets sights on credit report giant
Research: Lawyers take just 36 minutes for their lunch
And close to half rarely leave the office
Simmons & Simmons reveals 78% NQ retention result
As international outfit Covington & Burling posts 83% score
Manchester Law School scholarship to boost number of black males entering legal profession
Students will receive £3,000 for each year of their undergraduate degrees
Pinsent Masons opens redundancy consultation that could see up to 100 PA jobs go
Firm cites investment in legal tech as one of the reasons behind the review
Judge complains after being handed bundle containing 2,000 pages of ‘largely irrelevant material’
Size really does matter, according to Mr Justice Holgate
Withers teams up with BPP to launch ‘earn while you learn’ solicitor apprenticeships
International law firm embraces government-backed Trailblazer scheme
Autumn retention season: The good, the bad and the ugly
Legal Cheek reflects on the latest NQ results
Norton Rose Fulbright reveals Newcastle support hub expansion plan
But there won’t be TCs in the Toon anytime soon
Michael Mansfield QC joins Nexus Chambers following mass exodus at old set
Exclusive: Top silk follows tenants out the door
Clifford Chance keeps 42 out of 52 autumn NQs
Magic circle giant bounces back from disappointing spring result
Bond Dickinson unveils 81% retention score as firm prepares for US mega merger
Tie-up with North Carolina’s Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice will go live next month
Tribunal tells SRA to review its guidance on solicitors having sex with clients
Plea comes as SDT fines lawyer £8,500 for failing to disclose relationship
Secret trainees are revealing what City law life is really like
Elitist partners, recruitment event fibs and shafted PAs
Travers Smith keeps 18 of its 20 NQs following summer salary boost
City outfit chalks up impressive 90% autumn rate
Cambridge law student who burned £20 note in front of homeless man KEEPS university place
Ronald Coyne reveals he’s been threatened with chemical attacks in apology letter to peers
Anglo-Aussie break up: Stock market-listed Slater and Gordon confirms split from UK arm
Decision follows a string of disappointing financial results
Edinburgh law student in massive row with his uni over ‘mocking ISIS’ claim
University of Edinburgh says it’s investigating ‘complaints alleging misconduct’
Trainee solicitor who charged clients for legal advice handed 18-month suspended jail term
Training contract disaster
‘Karate lawyer’ promises to take out corrupt judges using martial arts expertise in hilarious spoof advert
‘What I lack in formal legal qualifications, I make up for in karate moves’
Welsh wannabe lawyers unable to obtain vital student funding just weeks before law school starts
And their government is being blamed
Eight tech start-ups set to join Allen & Overy’s hipster-esque ‘Fuse’ innovation hub
Well-known AI system and asylum advice app among successful applicants
Magic circle top payer opts against raising NQ pay above £85k, dashing ‘100 Club’ dreams
Freshfields to stick rather than twist
Regulator issues ‘what not to do’ social media guide for solicitors amid rise in complaints
Just days after a law firm partner was sanctioned following anti-Semitic Facebook rant
Fake barrister listed on genuine chambers website is jailed for defrauding terminally ill woman out of £92,000
He falsely claimed to have a law degree from the University of London
Female barristers granted access to top London court’s male-only robing room
Gender should play no part in the role or status of an advocate, says Southwark judge
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