Category: News

Paul Weiss lawyer dies at 107
Mordecai ‘Mordie’ Rochlin joined the firm in 1937 and worked from his 32nd floor office well into his 100s

Strike off for solicitor who changed dates on property paperwork with Tipp-Ex
Nicholas St John Gething described move as ‘quick fix’

Training contract numbers return to pre-financial crash levels for first time
Annual rookie registrations jump by over 500 to 6,344

Trio of ex-Supreme Court justices join 800 legal figures in call for Johnson and Patel to end lawyer ‘hostility’
Open letter follows series of public attacks on profession

US law firm duo dish out COVID bonuses to London lawyers
Associates at Simpson Thacher and Akin Gump rewarded up to £31,000 for lockdown endeavours

JLD welcomes decision not to strike off struggling junior lawyer
Susan Orton binned documents 'in a moment of sheer panic'

Cork Uni Law Society’s virtual debate final flooded with porn
'Videos of naked men and men masturbating' appeared on-screen during Arthur Cox-sponsored Zoom call

Linklaters sets ‘aspirational’ 35% ethnic minority recruitment target for trainee solicitors
Follows similar moves by A&O and HSF

Fieldfisher boss: ‘My heart drops when I see NQ lawyers in US firms earning more than some of our partners’
Six-figure pay packets 'unsustainable', agrees Pinsents senior partner

Top London lawyer joked about KKK and groped member of staff, tribunal hears
Samuel Maurice Charkham fined £30,000

Ex-Freshfields partner ‘caught on the shifting sands of attitudes towards sexual behaviour’, High Court told
Ryan Beckwith appealing £35,000 fine over drunken sexual incident with junior colleague

Edinburgh University law student receives racist Tinder message
'Grossly offensive' DM referenced George Floyd

Allen & Overy kicks off pay gap reporting season
Magic circle outfit reveals a partner inclusive gender result of 59.9%

SRA prosecutes former Hong Kong Law Society president over comments during public meeting
Lawyer and pro-Beijing politician Junius Ho is also qualified as a solicitor in England & Wales

Robot judges determining guilt through speech and body temperature ‘commonplace’ within 50 years, AI guru predicts
Sci-fi style justice sooner than we think?

Hogan Lovells announces new partner diversity targets
Global partnerships to be 15% ethnic minority and 4% LGBTQ+ by 2025

Top US legal commentator suspended after allegedly masturbating on Zoom call
Jeffrey Toobin of the New Yorker apologises for 'embarrassingly stupid mistake'

US law firm wooed magic circle partner with incredible annual package worth £5.3 million
Whopping sum guaranteed for three years, according to report

ULaw announces SQE partnerships with Southampton, Surrey, Leicester and Birkbeck unis
Students to receive super-exam study support

Law Society award named in honour of Salford Uni law student killed in drive-by shooting
Hogan Lovells' Sengova Kailondo scoops junior solicitor of the year gong in memory of Aya Hachem

Over half of trainee solicitors ‘unable to cope with stress’ during lockdown
Report also finds most firms have struggled to train rookies remotely