Author: Thomas Connelly
Bragging barristers: Bar Council issues fresh guidance for online etiquette
Just weeks after Michael Wolkind QC was fined over website claims
Law firm partner’s career hangs in the balance after High Court headbutt attack on EastEnders star’s father
Property law specialist Philip Saunders handed an 18-month suspended sentence
New online soap reveals ‘the truth’ about life as a solicitor in a City law firm
Coronation Street for corporate lawyers
Freshfields unveils 84% spring retention score
Magic circle outfit keeps 31 of its 37 NQs
Pants on fire: Lawyer’s trousers burst into flames while defending client accused of arson
Stephen Gutierrez blamed the crotch combustion on a faulty e-cigarette battery
Olswang partner who completed training contract AND pupillage within a year of each other lands top legal role at Facebook
Anna Caddick will head up the social media giant's regulatory and litigation team
Oxford trumps Cambridge in world law school rankings, again
Eight UK institutions land top 50 slots, a drop on last year's results
The Sesh Act 2017: Exeter law students call on drafting skills to invent new drinking ‘legislation’
'All Core Squad members must dab upon hearing a dropping beat of a lit song'
Solicitor who qualified in 2009 and made partner in 2014 becomes UK’s youngest female judge at just 31
Briony Clarke’s swift ascent into the history books
Concerns over SRA solicitor super-exam proposals reach House of Lords
Lord Low of Dalston questioned whether the new vocational training regime would have a negative impact on law schools
One third of legal professionals believe their firm could do more to help disadvantaged young people
But charity-backed research shows finance faired far worse
Retention rate row: Simmons & Simmons remains tightlipped over NQ temporary contract accusations
International outfit trumpeted an 80% spring score last week
Why the ascendence of AI can benefit young lawyers
RPC’s Daniel Wyatt on how the Pyrrho case is redefining what it means to be a litigation lawyer
Addleshaw Goddard teams up with BPP to launch solicitor apprenticeships in Manchester and Leeds
Northern giant's new recruits will start this September
Cleary Gottlieb hikes London NQ pay by 14% to £120,000
‘MoneyLaw’ movement continues its assault on the City
Slaughter and May hands five lucky tech start-ups £30,000 in free legal advice
But just how far will this money stretch?
Simmons & Simmons puts 2016 retention woes behind it with solid 80% spring result
Twelve trainees have accepted full-time associate roles
Ex-Pinsent Masons and DLA Piper lawyer’s aftershave range slammed by Dragons’ Den millionaires
It smells like 'I've been dragged along and left up a lemon tree'
Top lawyer slammed for ‘open the Moet’ tweet as government boosts injury compensation cash
Liz Truss altered the way payouts are calculated leaving insurers seething
Human rights lawyer in running to replace Edward Snowden as Glasgow University figurehead
Aamer Anwar announced he will stand for election as rector
Petition by Leeds CPS solicitor reaps rewards as Trump’s state visit postponed
Graham Guest’s online appeal chalked up almost two million signatures