Author: thomas-connelly

Charity to help boost measly £12k bar pay packets

Seems legit

Foul smell is “beyond our control”, say court staff

New best practice guidance states unpaid placements should last no longer than four weeks

Lord Chief Justice appears to back radical move in wake of court closures

Little progress on social mobility at Bar for quarter of a century

Wannabe barrister turns to medical trials for much needed financial boost

Bar Council chair warns of escalating cost to enter profession

Social media awash with full bottomed wigs and silver buckled shoes

Being tainted by association has its limits

Oxford and Cambridge graduates make up less than 5% of trainees outside London

Single-office City firm chucks an extra £5,000 at its newly qualified lawyers

All six Macfarlanes qualifiers have committed their future to the "silver circle" outfit

Merger mania: Olswang eyeing up Bird & Bird and Simmons & Simmons, meanwhile Berwin Leighton Paisner and Greenberg Traurig in talks

Legal establishment comes out against plan to scrap LPC and open firms to non-graduates

Seven out of seven March qualifiers have committed their future to the international firm

Peers say scrap tradition in favour of £80,000 a year savings

Footage from 1997 shows London lawyer speaking at extremist group rally in Trafalgar Square

Two-thirds of PRIME students had no further contact with their allocated firm

South West is best -- avoid the rest, apart from the City

Lawyer was fired late last year after foul-mouthed football rant that swept YouTube