Category: News
Ashurst to offer course in imposter syndrome
City firm looks to help aspiring lawyers set broader definitions of 'success' and 'accomplishment'
Mishcon fined £25k over football agent fees
Breached account rules
Fieldfisher teams up with client Peloton to create ‘diversity vac scheme’
Two-week programme for aspiring lawyers from unrepresented groups
Clydes gives lawyers coloured wristbands so they can indicate how Covid cautious they are
Traffic light system 🚦
Lawyers out-earn doctors and dentists with £93k average salary
Chief execs top 2021 earnings table with £131k, new stats show
‘Diversity is not optional — it’s what we must be’
Senior legal figures discuss issues around Black lawyer retention and career progression during Dechert-sponsored panel event to mark Black History Month
Revealed: Law firms’ average start work and finish times 2021-22
Legal Cheek exclusive research shows how the average working hours for junior lawyers have fared in the face of changing work arrangements
UK law firm becomes first to sell legal advice as NFT
Crypto art 🤝 billable hours
SQE prep provider launches £50k social mobility scholarship fund
Law Training Centre's 'Access to Law' scheme enables candidates to complete part one prep course for just £950
City Consortium outlines SQE plan for future trainees
11-month programme includes super-exam prep and 'bespoke' top-up course
Macfarlanes launches ‘app scheme’
TC hopefuls can now get the 'trainee experience' via their phones
Disbarment for barrister who asked fellow lawyer to lie about sex assault
Handed suspended sentence earlier this year
Don’t scrap the bar aptitude test, urges Bar Council. Up the pass mark instead
BSB mulls ditching entry exam after report found fewer than 1% of wannabe barristers fail to pass it
Top law professors pen letter in support of academic freedom
Intervention follows student protests targeting philosophy prof Kathleen Stock
BARBRI tests commercial awareness and creative thinking with new full SQE1 scholarship
What do you think the law firm of the future will look like?
Abertay law grad sues uni over probe into ‘offensive’ gender comments
Lisa Keogh was cleared of wrongdoing but is now taking legal action for 'stress caused at the most crucial part of my university career'
First practising female barrister commemorated with London blue plaque
Lady Hale unveiled the historical marker
Dechert boosts trainee salaries to £50k and £55k
Rises of up to 11% 💷
Fund legal aid training contracts and pupillages, MPs and peers urge government
Cross-party group call on SRA to include social welfare modules in new SQE
Law firm partner workloads increase as remote working makes it more difficult to delegate to juniors and trainees, survey finds
Many outfits report rise in chargeable hours, especially at senior levels
