Category: News

Ban for former Travers Smith trainee who ‘misled colleagues’
Ex-rookie sanctioned over email to IT

Reed Smith signs SQE training deal with BARBRI and College of Legal Practice
Replaces LPC route from 2022

Big Four giant Deloitte snaps up London law firm
Acquires Kemp Little

Junior barrister imagines Boris Johnson and top Tory MPs as fictional QCs in hilarious Twitter thread
Filled with plenty of QC quips and lawyer in-jokes

‘The SQE Sessions’ launches as super-exam countdown begins
Half-day virtual event will answer questions on firms’ lips

Magic and silver circle law firms sign commitment to ensure BAME junior lawyers get same career opportunities as white counterparts
Elite firms join over 30 legal recruiters in new diversity pledge

ULaw unveils new SQE courses
Fees announced within the next month

Hogan Lovells reinstates NQ lawyer pay following COVID cuts
Global firm trimmed salaries in London and Birmingham earlier this summer

Exclusive: Big Aussie law school moves into English super-exam market, offering SQE 1 and 2 prep courses
College of Legal Practice will challenge established players for market share

Participating firms announced for The Legal Cheek November Virtual Law Fair
Meet over 60 leading law firms

Virtual student events next week with White & Case, Reed Smith and Clyde & Co
Taking place on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday

Super-exam won’t save students money, claim junior lawyers
Junior Lawyers Division predicts that newly-approved SQE won't lower qualification costs

Irish solicitor gives CPR to dying bear
Killian MacLochlainn owns an animal sanctuary

Solicitor fined by disciplinary tribunal after failing to provide blood sample to police
Banned from driving for over a year

Lord Sumption warns of ‘totalitarian society’ in latest attack on lockdown policies
Lockdown sceptic accuses government of setting fire to the constitution as it tries to rule by decree

Solicitor super-exam receives final approval
LSB signs off on biggest shake-up to legal education and training in a quarter-century

Norton Rose Fulbright sets BAME trainee recruitment target of 25%
Follows similar ethnicity goals by Links, A&O and HSF

Linklaters extends virtual internship to sixth-formers
No plans to offer solicitor apprenticeships