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‘Cambridge-educated Weil Gotshal trainee’ flogs training contract advice for £45 an hour

When you're on £97k a year, is this really necessary?

Sep 30 2015 9:58am

Morning round-up: Wednesday 30 September

The morning’s top legal affairs news stories

Sep 30 2015 8:20am

Lawyer falls for latest Facebook ‘legal contract’ privacy hoax

If in doubt, cite the "Rome Statute"

Sep 29 2015 5:19pm

Lawyers back magistrate suspended for paying asylum seeker’s court charge

Axe this "laughably unfair" charge, urge members of legal profession

Sep 29 2015 12:28pm

Lawyers’ ethics: who would you save first in a fire — your mum or girlfriend?

Chinese judicial ethics exam asks wannabe lawyers to decide

Sep 29 2015 11:09am

Inner Temple awards top scholarship to bencher’s daughter

Exclusive: £22,000 BPTC prize goes to student with very close family connection to Inn

Sep 29 2015 9:55am

Morning round-up: Tuesday 29 September

The morning’s top legal affairs news stories

Sep 29 2015 8:20am

Solicitor who had SIX KIDS while at Slaughter and May — and made partner — reveals ‘best decision’: to quit law

Laura Carstensen, who had three kids in the first four years of career, speaks publicly about "structural sexism"

Sep 28 2015 3:14pm

Bar Council chief and Dechert’s Miriam González-Durántez latest to back Proudman feminist movement

LinkedIn row barrister now has support of Nick Clegg's City lawyer wife and a less enthusiastic Alistair MacDonald QC

Sep 28 2015 11:23am

US firm that pays London newly qualified lawyers £101k boosts trainee intake by 20%

Latham & Watkins now offering more training contracts than many mid-tier City outfits

Sep 28 2015 9:44am

Morning round-up: Monday 28 September

The morning’s top legal affairs news stories

Sep 28 2015 8:01am

Lord Harley to face Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal

"Harry Potter" lawyer will have initial case management hearing in early November

Sep 25 2015 12:01pm

Legal aid lawyer’s Facebook status about feeding client’s cat goes viral

Crumbling justice system sees solicitor forced to take on pet-sitting duties

Sep 25 2015 9:55am

Former Freshfields junior lawyer, 31, shot dead in Berlin

Luke Holland, who was with magic circle firm until 2013, killed outside nightclub

Sep 25 2015 9:03am

Morning round-up: Friday 25 September

The morning’s top legal affairs news stories

Sep 25 2015 8:15am

At last, Lord Sumption has a friend! Top female QC comes out in support of under-fire Supreme Court judge

Sarah Forshaw QC backs Sumption over women judges comments; as shadow Lord Chancellor is latest to put boot in

Sep 24 2015 5:15pm

The University of Law seems to think the former Soviet Union still exists

Looking to study the LPC? Still view yourself as a citizen of a dissolved communist superstate? Then ULaw has you covered

Sep 24 2015 3:03pm

Now it’s Proudman versus Sumption: LinkedIn row barrister slams Supreme Court judge

27-year old is seizing new role is unofficial spokesperson for nation's female lawyers

Sep 24 2015 10:01am