Category: News

Doughty Street junior barrister launches first legal outfitter for women

'Women have been at the bar for over 100 years and men are still the default when it comes to legal dress,' Karlia Lykourgou tells Legal Cheek

Jun 18 2020 2:06pm

Top paying magic circle firm keeps NQ pay at £100k

Freshfields freeze; fellow big payer HSF also declines to cut

Jun 17 2020 5:30pm

Pregnant law firm partner calls out top QC for ‘every day sexism’

DWF's Naomi Pryde says unnamed silk contacted a male junior lawyer about her case, assuming she'd be 'indisposed'

Jun 17 2020 4:47pm

CMS posts 72% trainee retention score

44 out of 61

Jun 17 2020 11:10am

Allen & Overy reopens City HQ on ‘permission-only basis’

Distancing measures put in place

Jun 17 2020 10:10am

Over half of legal workers stressed about job hunting amid coronavirus

One in four have put their search on hold

Jun 17 2020 9:13am

New Instagram account allows City lawyers to anonymously submit their ‘juicy secrets’

'Magic Circle Confessions' launched earlier this month

Jun 16 2020 12:00pm

Dentons rolls out ‘track and trace’ system as it reopens London office

Will operate at 25% capacity with no movement between floors

Jun 16 2020 10:12am

Revealed: The practice areas most (and least) impacted by coronavirus

Lockdown has hit certain specialisms hardest -- but there are reasons for optimism, writes LexisNexis marketing chief Christopher O’Connor

Jun 16 2020 9:18am

Harvard trumps Oxbridge in global law school rankings — again

World league table looks at key criteria including employer and academic reputation

Jun 15 2020 12:14pm

Ban for rookie solicitor who ‘falsified’ LPC certificate to dupe regulator

Kulvinder Kooner was applying to be added to the roll

Jun 15 2020 10:53am

Ex-Baker McKenzie boss who attempted to kiss junior lawyer fined £55,000

Amounted to serious professional misconduct, tribunal finds

Jun 12 2020 4:04pm

Junior lawyers call for super-exam delay as it warns MCQs may be too easy

War of words between JLD and regulator rumbles on

Jun 12 2020 12:03pm

Uni law degrees don’t prepare grads for law firm life, report claims

Bosses bemoan 'basic grammatical mistakes' and lack of commercial awareness

Jun 12 2020 8:37am

Unexpected death of former Baker McKenzie chief was suicide, inquest hears

Paul Rawlinson took his own life at Swiss treatment centre

Jun 11 2020 11:59am

Taylor Wessing furloughs lawyers and green lights flexi-working scheme

Bonus payments will be split into two instalments

Jun 11 2020 11:22am

Mills & Reeve keeps 16 out of 18 autumn NQs

One on fixed-term deal

Jun 10 2020 12:04pm