News

Lord Chief Justice says judges are feeling stressed out at work

Even judges aren’t immune from the stresses and strains of the working world

Jan 13 2016 2:08pm

Top judge calls for lawyerless courts

Bad news for law students

Jan 13 2016 12:28pm

Hilarious parody video mocks privileged white law graduate

Short comical clip mimics a recent Western Sydney University ad involving Sudanese refugee law graduate

Jan 13 2016 11:37am

The solicitors who quit the City to work in sexy areas of law

Get a TC, get some money and then get out to do crime and media work

Jan 13 2016 9:42am

Morning round-up: Wednesday 13 January

The morning’s top legal affairs news stories

Jan 13 2016 8:03am

‘I’m a disillusioned science PhD: should I do the GDL?’

Career salvation as a lawyer, potentially...

Jan 12 2016 2:19pm

Trowers & Hamlins improves on poor autumn trainee retention performance

Period of unpredictable retention rates continues for national firm as it posts an 88% spring 2016 result

Jan 12 2016 12:13pm

Co-op training contract freeze continues despite expansion

Hype of "100 training contracts a year by 2017" a distant memory

Jan 12 2016 11:18am

Top criminal chambers boosts pupillage award from £16k to £40k

London set bucks downward pay trend

Jan 12 2016 9:27am

Morning round-up: Tuesday 12 January

The morning’s top legal affairs news stories

Jan 12 2016 8:10am

David Bowie used to be a paralegal based near Lincoln’s Inn

British music legend sadly passed away yesterday after 18-month battle with cancer

Jan 11 2016 5:28pm

Daily Mail hate against lawyers reaches unprecedented levels

National newspaper enraged by solicitors “hounding” of British troops

Jan 11 2016 3:11pm

Labour’s top lawyer quits citing ‘increasingly negative path’ under Jeremy Corbyn

Shadow attorney general Catherine McKinnell has resigned -- Karl Turner replaces her

Jan 11 2016 1:02pm

Just 23% of new QCs are women — but Boris’ wife is one of them

Ethnic minorities also under-represented as -- surprise, surprise -- white men dominate silk appointments

Jan 11 2016 12:33pm

BPP law student charged with murder appears in court — but does not enter plea

GDL student's next hearing scheduled for March

Jan 11 2016 8:59am

Morning round-up: Monday 11 January

The morning’s top legal affairs news stories

Jan 11 2016 8:20am

Magic circle firm Linklaters reveals what staff parties were like over 100 years ago

Historic image shows top City lawyers of the time enjoying a lavish dinner -- and there's not a woman in sight

Jan 8 2016 2:24pm

Number of students studying undergraduate law degrees has risen by 28% since 2007

LLBs are booming -- and increasingly dominated by women

Jan 8 2016 1:40pm

Social mobility charity’s ‘Model Law Commission’ gets students thinking about what being a lawyer actually means

Big Voice London aims to bring people who see the world differently into the profession

Jan 8 2016 12:14pm

Junior barrister appears in court over supplying drugs in heart of legal London

Strand Chambers’ Henry Hendron was arrested earlier this year after boyfriend died of drug overdose at his Temple flat

Jan 8 2016 10:22am

Robots aren’t such a big threat to lawyers, say top academics

Predictions of solicitors and barristers' imminent demise are premature

Jan 8 2016 9:13am