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Freshfields, Clifford Chance, BLP, Ashurst and DWF lawyers among 300 to offer support following Manchester bombing pro bono appeal

Twenty-two people were killed and dozens injured after suicide bomber targeted Ariana Grande gig

May 31 2017 4:09pm

Liz Truss may not get as much stick if she were a man, suggests QC

Constitutional law debate also includes discussion about Supreme Court justice’s bathing suit...

May 31 2017 1:53pm

Twiddling thumbs: decreasing demand for legal services ‘endemic’ in the profession, survey finds

A quarter of US firms said their associates don't have full workloads, and this number shoots up when you look at partners

May 31 2017 10:38am

Morning round-up: Wednesday 31 May

The morning's top legal affairs news stories

May 31 2017 7:34am

High Court judge ‘kissed on the cheek’ during Middle Temple Lane robbery, court hears

Sir Robin Knowles QC was allegedly mugged by man clutching champagne bottle stolen from chambers

May 30 2017 3:51pm

BSB approves shared parental leave scheme for self-employed barristers

Regulator hopes the move will encourage more gender diversity within the profession

May 30 2017 1:33pm

Morning round-up: Tuesday 30 May

The morning's top legal affairs news stories

May 30 2017 7:08am

‘It’s not appropriate’: Top judge expresses concern over McKenzie friends after hearing criminal appeals prepared by law students

Two of the applications received legal support from students at Northumbria University and BPP Law School

May 26 2017 3:10pm

Hogan Lovells bumps junior lawyer pay packets by 5% to £75,000

Trainees will take home an extra £1,000

May 26 2017 1:08pm

Mark Zuckerberg gets honorary law degree from Harvard, the university he dropped out of to start Facebook

He joins a long list of, sometimes unusual, celebs with honorary degrees

May 26 2017 11:23am

Research: Law degrees are more reliant on EU funding than languages degrees

University law faculties receive millions of pounds a year from Europe -- will Brexit change this?

May 26 2017 10:34am

The reality of taking the CILEx route: ‘I work just as hard as a solicitor for less money and less respect’

An anonymous trainee legal exec thinks attitudes to the apprenticeship need to change

May 26 2017 9:01am

Morning round-up: Friday 26 May

The morning's top legal affairs news stories

May 26 2017 7:41am

Seven law firm partners named on 2017 ‘ethnic minority role model’ power list

Lawyers at Freshfields, Linklaters, Slaughter and May, Clifford Chance and BLP all make the cut

May 25 2017 2:15pm

Barristers and football agents team up to kick off new ‘innovative’ legal business

VII Law becomes the bar’s first licensed ABS

May 25 2017 11:46am

Revealed: 60% of lawyers think visible tattoos are not acceptable in their firms and chambers

Could we see a discrimination case in the near future?

May 25 2017 10:52am

Nottingham Trent’s student-staffed ‘teaching law firm’ launches commercial advice arm

Legal centre was handed an ABS licence by the SRA in 2015

May 25 2017 9:16am