Category: News

Nottingham Law School unveils SQE prep course prices
£8k combined cost for law grads

DLA Piper targets 30% global female partnership by 2025
Linklaters ups gender diversity target after missing previous aim

Barrister suspended for six months over sexual comments to female mini-pupil
Second disciplinary tribunal finding against Robert Kearney

Re-hearing for junior solicitor struck off after losing work briefcase
Follows crowdfunding appeal

Holiday counts towards billable hours, Orrick tells London lawyers
US firm to credit 40 hours of bonus-eligible time to encourage lawyers to truly 'unplug' for a week

Vlogging criminal lawyer gives case law the rocker treatment
Leather biker jacket ✅ 80s heavy metal band t-shirt ✅ Rock'n'roll haircut ✅

Top lockdown concern among pupil barristers? A lack of networking opportunities
'Zoom events just don't cut it'

SRA reveals further SQE exam dates
Confirmation of sittings beyond transitional years for 2023/4

A&O anticipates 40% home-working after lockdown
Office will remain ‘incredibly important’ for culture and personal development, says magic circle firm

SQE training provider reveals £6k online prep course
Law Training Centre's combined cost with exam fees is just over £10k

Hogan Lovells retains 17 of 21 qualifying trainees
Two on fixed term deals

Linklaters in-house tech start-up takes on firm trainees
Six-month seat option forms part of magic circle outfit’s training contract programme

Freshfields latest to let lawyers work from home up to half the time
Interim measure includes trainees

3 lawyers doing elite London work from rural Scotland, the South of France and Zimbabwe to join global firm chief at virtual summit
Featuring remote-working pioneers at Re:link Linklaters, Travers Smith, Hogan Lovells and more

BPP University to be sold ‘within weeks’, report claims
Private equity giant TDR Capital looks set to snap up law school

Freshfields keeps 32 of 34 spring NQ solicitors
Macfarlanes also confirms 100% score

Clifford Chance latest law firm to dish out COVID bonuses to all lawyers and staff
Follows similar moves made by HSF, Simmons and Bevan Brittan

Linklaters adopts code to protect employees with afro hair
‘Hair discrimination remains a source of racial injustice for black people in the UK’, says magic circle firm

Junior lawyer mental health hit hardest by lockdown, research reveals
When compared with WFH experience of senior solicitors