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Ex-Fieldfisher IT worker banned from profession after sexually assaulting paralegal at Christmas party

City computer whizz was handed 12-month prison term last year

Aug 1 2017 1:02pm

Can you start a training contract without having completed the LPC?

We asked the Solicitors Regulation Authority for its advice on this little-known route to qualification

Aug 1 2017 12:02pm

#TheAccused: Sympathy runs dry for defendant at centre of new crime documentary

‘Sob stories worse than the X Factor

Aug 1 2017 10:47am

Why it’s time to rename and reclaim ‘revenge porn’

We speak to the lawyers behind the third-wave feminist movement

Aug 1 2017 9:08am

Morning round-up: Tuesday 1 August

The morning's top legal affairs news stories

Aug 1 2017 7:30am

Keele University’s law society in training contract gavel clanger

Hysteria sets in on application deadline day?

Jul 31 2017 12:15pm

Reed Smith keeps 12 out of 14 qualifying trainees, including King & Wood Mallesons’ survivor

Firm also reveals its training contract applications have almost doubled

Jul 31 2017 11:33am

Is ‘Doxbridge’ a thing?

Supreme Court now has more Durham grads than any other non-Oxbridge uni

Jul 31 2017 9:15am

Morning round-up: Monday 31 July

The morning's top legal affairs news stories

Jul 31 2017 7:49am

Herbert Smith Freehills retains 80% of its autumn NQs

As national outfit Mills & Reeve posts 79% result

Jul 28 2017 12:34pm

Lords Neuberger and Clarke leave Supreme Court bench, but not before colleagues tell funny stories about them

The court's TripAdvisor rating, The Beatles and Legal Cheek all name checked in today's valedictory ceremony

Jul 28 2017 11:25am

EU academic uses abuse he’s been sent by Brexit campaigners in new book intro

Michael Dougan called an ‘IRA c*nt’ and told to ‘die painfully of cancer’

Jul 28 2017 9:08am

Morning round-up: Friday 28 July

The morning's top legal affairs news stories

Jul 28 2017 7:35am

Kirkland & Ellis reveals 56% NQ retention result

Top paying global mega-firm sees autumn rate drop sharply

Jul 27 2017 4:46pm

Southampton law student imprisoned for manslaughter APPEALS conviction and sentence

He was given six years for killing a father-of-ten on Valentine’s Day

Jul 27 2017 12:14pm

Mishcon de Reya’s autumn retention figure slumps to 64%

As Stephenson Harwood keeps 90% of its NQs

Jul 27 2017 10:05am