Category: News
CPS lawyer rebuked over offensive Facebook posts
Included petition from far-right group Britain First
Eversheds Sutherland retains 45 of 50 NQ solicitors
All on permanent deals
Taylor Wessing opens in Dublin
Targets bustling life sciences, healthcare and technology sectors
Supreme Court judge expressed ‘relief’ at Lord Sumption’s resignation in previously unseen email exchange
Made public through FOI request
More top firms confirm trainee retention scores
Strong 80%+ results for CMS, Gowling, Fieldfisher and Browne Jacobson
Solicitor accused of injecting blood into supermarket food previously worked for A&O, Milbank and HSF
Leoaai Elghareeb arrested last week
Freshfields matches Clifford Chance on trainee pay
£50k in year one and £55k in year two
Bar aptitude test ‘not effective filter’ of weak wannabe barristers
Fail rate of under 1%, report finds
LPC students unhappy about return to in-person exams
Exclusive: SRA has told legal education providers to revert to face-to-face assessments
Bar exams: BSB stats reveal widely differing pass rates among providers
New figures -- focusing on centralised assessments only -- show average pass rates ranging between 92% and 18%
Trainee pay at Clifford Chance hits £55k
£50k in year one, rising to £55k in year two
DAC Beachcroft records 81% trainee retention score
13 sign permanent deals ✍️
SQE officially comes into force
New solicitor training regime will eventually replace the LPC
‘Cancelled’ barrister cleared of misconduct over tweet that got him kicked out of chambers
But fined £500 over separate tweet about Muslims
RPC says lawyers can work from home permanently
Includes trainees
Exclusive: Jones Day London partner sanctioned over inappropriate behaviour at drinks event
Drunken lawyer leaves trainee shaken and upset
Six-month suspension for newly qualified solicitor who parked in disabled space
Caught using someone else's blue badge
Get jabbed before office return, MoFo tells London lawyers
First law firm to publicly mandate vaccine policy in UK office
‘I do feel like Elle Woods’: Former X Factor star to start law school next month
Katie Waissel appeared on the show in 2010
National law firm embraces solicitor apprenticeships
Ashfords' new six-year pathway will incorporate SQE