Category: News

Are other legal practice areas ‘less prestigious’ than commercial law?

A high profile QC is accused of thinking so, but many lawyers disagree

Nov 29 2019 1:30pm

Speakers announced for ‘How to make it as a barrister’ next week

Pupils, juniors, QCs and practice managers from leading sets to advise students how they can get to the bar

Nov 29 2019 12:27pm

Revealed: Law firms’ average arrive and leave the office times 2019-20

Who’s totting-up 12 hour workdays and who’s home in time for Tipping Point?

Nov 29 2019 9:09am

Former Freshfields partner arrested in tax probe

A week after quitting magic circle firm

Nov 28 2019 12:10pm

This is what happens when a lawyer loses his daughter’s hamster

'This is the most stressful day in my life since I took the bar exam'

Nov 28 2019 10:18am

Director of top London lawtech company Luminance faces US extradition over fraud allegations

Slaughter and May is a high profile backer of business

Nov 27 2019 8:50am

Skype hearings require ‘more careful thought’ — regardless of benefit to barristers

'Communicating with someone on a screen just isn’t the same', says Bar Council bigwig Athena Markides

Nov 25 2019 1:30pm

First speakers announced for Future of Legal Education and Training Conference London 2020

Sales of Super Early Bird Tickets end this Friday

Nov 25 2019 12:36pm

Lawyer killed by loaded shotgun submitted into evidence

Freak accident occurred at a court in South Africa

Nov 25 2019 8:52am

Commercial awareness events this week in Leeds, Nottingham, Edinburgh, Birmingham and London

With Addleshaw Goddard, Ashurst, CMS, Hogan Lovells, Eversheds, Irwin Mitchell, Linklaters, Pinsent Masons, Shoosmiths and more

Nov 23 2019 11:00am

This Question Time audience member thinks all solicitors earn over £80,000 a year

Not if you're an employment lawyer in Leeds

Nov 22 2019 11:23am

Fancy eating like a lawyer? Now you can thanks to this new charity cookbook

Nigella Lawson has ordered her copy already

Nov 22 2019 9:00am

BSB boosts minimum pay for pupil barristers following annual review

£18,866 in London and £16,322 elsewhere -- from 1 January 2020

Nov 21 2019 8:48am

Law professor who specialises in money laundering arrested for alleged money laundering

Miami Uni academic Bruce Bagley accused of helping to launder £2.3 million

Nov 20 2019 10:08am