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Top London lawyer joked about KKK and groped member of staff, tribunal hears

Samuel Maurice Charkham is alleged to have pulled a white envelope over his head and said he had ‘joined the Ku Klux Klan’

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Ex-Freshfields partner ‘caught on the shifting sands of attitudes towards sexual behaviour’, High Court told

Ryan Beckwith appealing £35,000 fine over drunken sexual incident with junior colleague

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Edinburgh University law student receives racist Tinder message

‘Grossly offensive’ DM referenced George Floyd

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Allen & Overy kicks off pay gap reporting season

Magic circle outfit reveals a partner inclusive gender result of 59.9%

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SRA prosecutes former Hong Kong Law Society president over comments during public meeting

Lawyer and pro-Beijing politician Junius Ho is also qualified as a solicitor in England & Wales

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Robot judges determining guilt through speech and body temperature ‘commonplace’ within 50 years, AI guru predicts

Sci-fi style justice sooner than we think?

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Hogan Lovells announces new partner diversity targets

Global partnerships to be 15% ethnic minority and 4% LGBTQ+ by 2025

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Top US legal commentator suspended after allegedly masturbating on Zoom call

Jeffrey Toobin of the New Yorker apologises for ’embarrassingly stupid mistake’

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US law firm wooed magic circle partner with incredible annual package worth £5.3 million

Whopping sum guaranteed for three years, according to report

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ULaw announces SQE partnerships with Southampton, Surrey, Leicester and Birkbeck unis

Students to receive super-exam study support

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Law Society award named in honour of Salford Uni law student killed in drive-by shooting

Hogan Lovells’ Sengova Kailondo scoops junior solicitor of the year gong in memory of Aya Hachem

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Over half of trainee solicitors ‘unable to cope with stress’ during lockdown

Report also finds most firms have struggled to train rookies remotely

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Westminster, Greenwich and London South Bank law students to offer free legal advice to Windrush victims

Assist with compensation claims

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Barrister who broke hotel receptionist’s jaw with hockey stick avoids disbarment

Felix Joel Evans is about to become a solicitor despite GBH conviction

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London law firm seeks dog walker on £30k a year

Sign us up! 🐶

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BSB reveals bar exam pass rates following summer proctoring problems

Scores consistent with previous years, says regulator — if you don’t count students who encountered IT issues

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Kirkland & Ellis chopping boards are actually a thing

MoneyLaw firm makes move into kitchenware?

Oct 15 2020 10:32am
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City law firms repay government furlough money

Norton Rose Fulbright, Herbert Smith Freehills and Osborne Clarke wind back cost-cutting measures after performance exceeds expectations

Oct 15 2020 9:22am
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Majority of law school websites don’t mention SQE, research finds

Only 8% give some detail about new course provision

Oct 14 2020 12:18pm
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Suspension for barrister convicted of GBH

Also fined £2k

Oct 14 2020 10:45am
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DWF retains 25 of 39 trainee solicitors

Six on fixed-term deals

Oct 14 2020 9:14am
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