Category: News

STEM Future Lawyers and BPP announce 2021 law conversion scholarship
Applications now open for science, technology, engineering and maths students interested in law

BBC calls on Lord Dyson to oversee Princess Diana interview investigation
Former Master of the Rolls and Supreme Court judge to start straight away

Law firm opens virtual boozer featuring pool tables, beer garden and DJ booth
'The Keystone Arms' 💻🍺

Slaughter and May partner leaves firm following internal probe
Regulator notified

Appeal court dismisses student’s discrimination claim against ULaw
Ian Nwabueze ordered to pay £5,000 in costs

EXCLUSIVE: Top judge’s daughter who’s now a judge herself fronts judicial diversity campaign
The judiciary: where judges' daughters, not just their sons, can make it to the top

Minimum pay for pupil barristers up £94 in London and £279 elsewhere
Very modest uplifts didn't go down well on Twitter

Top QC under fire for suggesting pupil barristers should have ‘well polished shoes’ and a ‘proper haircut’
Former Bar Council chief Richard Atkins apologises for posting tweet quoting recently deceased judge

KPMG teams up with BPP to offer SQE training contract
Big Four player embraces solicitor training shake-up

Simmons & Simmons ups London NQ solicitor pay to £84,000
Boosts in Bristol too

Top divorce firm Vardags in war of words with legal workers’ union following dress code leak
Dress code saga rumbles on

A&O restarts lawyer salary reviews and increases pay
NQs receive pay rise which falls £5k short of pre-COVID six-figure sum

Work here if you want an Irish practising certificate, UK solicitors told
Irish Law Society throws post-Brexit curveball

Ex-Daily Mail editor who wrote infamous ‘Enemies of the People’ article set to become Boris Johnson’s director of communications
James Slack replaces Lee Cain who resigned over night

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’ lawyer husband to leave DLA Piper
Doug Emhoff will leave global outfit by inauguration day on 20 January

Hogan Lovells offers fast-track path to TC assessment days with new virtual academy
Exclusive: For sixth-form students and up

Law firms dominate social mobility employer list
Top ten spots for BCLP, Browne Jacobson, HSF and Bakers

IBA conference: Regulator has major role to play in junior lawyer wellbeing, argues Sheffield Uni law lecturer
Dr Emma Jones joins other top academics and charity LawCare to launch mental health research study

Law Society: Reserve vac scheme and TC spots for disabled aspiring lawyers
City law firms also encouraged to run more part-time training contracts

Profession must look after junior lawyers screwed over by the pandemic, Supreme Court judge warns
Lord Hodge says there shouldn't be 'lasting detriment' to those starting their career