Category: News

New report reveals practice areas most and least impacted by pandemic

Downturn in areas including litigation, property and immigration, while employment, commercial, tax, and risk & compliance thrive

May 5 2021 9:36am

FT editors attack government plans to restrict judicial review

March consultation is 'yet more evidence of the Conservative government’s contempt for the separation of powers'

May 4 2021 12:00pm

Liverpool Uni law grad earns £60k a year on OnlyFans

Alaw Haf, 23, posts glamour shots from family home in Wales

May 4 2021 11:04am

DLA Piper launches solicitor apprenticeship for school-leavers

Six-year programme starts in September from firm's Manchester office

May 4 2021 9:28am

Bird & Bird thanks lawyers and staff with Covid bonus

Rewarded €1,000 for 'hard work and extraordinary contributions'

Apr 30 2021 10:25am

City law firms take nine spots in ‘Top 50 Employers for Women’ list

Recognised for paving the way towards gender-equal workplaces

Apr 30 2021 9:05am

Clifford Chance to allow lawyers to work remotely up to 50% of the time

New policy comes into effect once Covid restrictions are lifted on 21 June

Apr 29 2021 12:48pm

Teen charged with junior lawyer’s murder

Khuram Javed shot dead in Sheffield earlier this month

Apr 29 2021 11:21am

Slaughter and May pushes ahead with associate salary rises

Magic circle player also restarts staff pay reviews as part of an easing of financial measures put in place during the pandemic

Apr 29 2021 9:47am

KFC’s top lawyer swaps fried chicken for pizza

Lawrence Grabau moves across to Pizza Hut as its new chief legal officer

Apr 28 2021 12:00pm

Pupillage seekers jump by 50% during pandemic

Over 3,300 wannabe barristers applied for 246 training spots this year

Apr 28 2021 10:33am

Google’s top lawyer raked in $51 million last year — out earning music superstars Drake, J-Lo and Pink

Majority of Kent Walker's monster 2020 compensation comes from stock awards

Apr 27 2021 1:03pm

BARBRI strikes SQE prep course deals with three international law schools

Legal education provider to offer UK-qualifying solicitor courses to students in France, Spain and Singapore

Apr 27 2021 9:42am

UK and Ireland bar bodies slam China sanctions on magic circle barristers

Members of Essex Court Chambers hit with penalties last month for allegedly spreading 'lies and disinformation' about treatment of Uighur Muslims

Apr 27 2021 8:42am

Squire Patton Boggs targets 25% UK female partners by 2026

Firm sets diversity targets for first time

Apr 26 2021 3:54pm

Choose ‘where and when you work’, Irwin Mitchell tells lawyers

National firm set to transform offices into 'collaborative working hubs' as part of post-Covid plans

Apr 26 2021 11:49am

Bristol Uni law grad, 21, becomes one of the youngest people to pass New York bar

Despite Covid-19 attack a month before the exam

Apr 26 2021 10:56am