Category: News
BSB chair to leave this summer
Follows SRA and LSB bosses quitting roles
Trump targets vac schemes with new executive order
US President attacks BigLaw diversity initiatives as 'discriminatory'
Gibson Dunn to boost London trainee numbers by 50%
10 to 15 from September 2027
Top banking lawyer who referred to colleagues as ‘Jabba the Hutt’ and ‘The idiot’ fined £15k
Breached SRA principles
Super-regulator pushes for more ethics training for students and lawyers
Standards slipping
Barrister warns of risks as litigants-in-person turn to ChatGPT
AI legal advice gone wrong
Chair of legal super-regulator steps down with immediate effect
Personal considerations
SQE: Regulator issues new guidance on mitigating circumstances
Candidates have five days to make a claim and taking a holiday doesn’t count
Simmons & Simmons unveils new managing partner
Emily Monastiriotis will take over the top role on 1 May
Junior lawyers will be ‘significantly replaced’ by technologists and data scientists, Paul Weiss boss predicts
Top lawyer foresees shifting roles in new tech-driven legal world
Top US firm says GenZ lawyers require ‘more handholding’ at work
Suggestion appeared in a job ad for Gibson Dunn
‘Inaccurate’ media lead to judicial death threats, says Lady Chief Justice
Baroness Carr calls for 'objective and accurate reporting'
Should the Supreme Court hear more criminal appeals? The Law Commission thinks so
Part of a wider set of proposals by an independent body
SRA chief exec to step down
Ends 12-year tenure at the top