Category: News

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

Westminster, Greenwich and London South Bank law students to offer free legal advice to Windrush victims
Assist with compensation claims

Barrister who broke hotel receptionist’s jaw with hockey stick avoids disbarment
Felix Joel Evans is about to become a solicitor despite GBH conviction

London law firm seeks dog walker on £30k a year
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BSB reveals bar exam pass rates following summer proctoring problems
Scores consistent with previous years, says regulator -- if you don't count students who encountered IT issues

Kirkland & Ellis chopping boards are actually a thing
MoneyLaw firm makes move into kitchenware?

City law firms repay government furlough money
Norton Rose Fulbright, Herbert Smith Freehills and Osborne Clarke wind back cost-cutting measures after performance exceeds expectations

Majority of law school websites don’t mention SQE, research finds
Only 8% give some detail about new course provision

Suspension for barrister convicted of GBH
Also fined £2k

DWF retains 25 of 39 trainee solicitors
Six on fixed-term deals

‘I’d be shouted at because I left the pub at 10 o’clock rather than 11pm’, says bullied former pupil barrister
New bar study finds rookies ‘particularly vulnerable’ to bullying and harassment