Author: Thomas Connelly

Taylor Wessing keeps 21 out of 23 autumn qualifying trainees
One associate-to-be is on a fixed term contract

Criminal solicitor struck off for submitting false invoices to law firms to help fund cocaine habit
He issued 40 fake invoices of £100 each

Junior lawyer MP ‘robustly’ denies lying about speeding
Commercial property law specialist charged with two counts of perverting the course of justice

ULaw’s plans to move Chester campus on hold
Housing project at law school site rejected by planners

Research: Law firms are failing to support qualifying trainees who aren’t kept on
Three quarters of rookie lawyers admit to having no back up plan

Family solicitor suspended from practice for glassing ex-boyfriend
She was convicted of ABH

A bunch of red pens and a smile: Gray’s Inn unveils new Lady Hale portrait
It will hang alongside paintings of Lord Bingham and Lord Thomas

Cambridge law grads behind case-predicting robot part ways
Mystery surrounds split

Slaughter and May keeps 32 out of 37 qualifying trainees
Autumn score of 86%

Pinsent Masons launches social mobility scholarship in memory of former chairman
It could lead to a training contract

Top QC who starred in courtroom docudrama to take over as head of CPS
Max Hill to replace Linklaters-bound Alison Saunders

Great British Bake Off winner turns back on celeb cooking career to study the BPTC
Manchester law grad John Whaite won series three of the hit cookery show -- now he wants to become a barrister

Oxford Uni leapfrogged by Glasgow in shock new law school rankings
Cambridge secured top spot

Clifford Chance becomes first magic circle firm to reveal autumn retention score — 77%
Canary Wharf-based giant keeps 36 out of 47 NQs

Tommy Robinson attended media law ‘training session’ at Kingsley Napley
Court of Appeal reserves decision over former EDL leader's claim that 13-month sentence is excessive

City law firms dominate LGBT global employers power list
Stonewall’s index celebrates the efforts of organisations to create inclusive workplaces

Travel giant TUI teams up with Hertfordshire Uni to launch solicitor apprenticeship programme
Follows KFC training contract offering

Lord Mance follows ex-colleagues Neuberger and Clarke back to the commercial bar following Supreme Court retirement
He joins 7KBW as an arbitrator

Exclusive: High street law firm advertises for unpaid paralegals
Smart Solicitors' not so smart recruitment tactics

Pinsent Masons hammered by High Court for ‘shameful’ treatment of dead oligarch’s family
International outfit accused of losing 'sight of any basic standard of decent and compassionate behaviour' in astonishing Aeroflot judgment