Category: News

Stephenson Harwood embraces earn-while-you-learn solicitor apprenticeships
City player also launches £15k a year scholarship fund in diversity push

Durham Uni law student tackles lockdown loneliness with charity chatline
'Chit-chat' by Lewis Alexander Baxter aims to 'connect the nation through conversation'

Top chambers postpone mini-pupillage schemes in response to COVID-19
But some sets are offering virtual minis and webinars

Exam blunder sees Oxford University law students given wrong criminal paper
Told of error halfway through open-book assessment

Wife of 25 Bedford Row barrister reveals husband’s battles with racism in viral Facebook post
'People often assume that he is the defendant', writes Katie Lynch

Squire Patton Boggs and Osborne Clarke move summer vacation schemes online
Law firms continue to switch to virtual programmes amid virus disruption

CONFIRMED: This is what the new solicitor super-exam will look like
Two-part assessment to come into force from 1 September 2021 -- subject to LSB approval

Freshfields lawyers aghast after senior partner refers to ‘Blacks’ in firm-wide email
Boss Edward Braham apologises and says he is 'committed to learning from this'

DWF defers training contract start dates by six months
Thirty-one new joiners will now start in February

Defence barrister fined £1,000 for ‘pulling faces’ at judge
She also described a decision as ‘insane'

DLA Piper offers future trainees £10,000 to delay TC start dates by a year
Exclusive: Or £5,000 for six months

Fulham man complains that his aspiring lawyer flatmate (whose TC has been cancelled) is claiming benefits while being financed by mum and dad
His parents pay for his rent, Tube fare, food shops and nights out

Sidley Austin retains all 11 autumn NQ solicitors
One associate-to-be is on a fixed-term contract

Henry Hendron wins appeal against second suspension
BSB concedes case on a technicality unearthed by its own barrister

Dominic Grieve is now a law lecturer
Ex-Attorney General will be a visiting professor at Goldsmiths

King’s College London law student tackles case law on TikTok
Handy 60-second explainers cover legal basics -- from contract to criminal law

David Lammy joins Doughty Street Chambers
Barrister turned Labour MP for Tottenham becomes associate tenant

Reed Smith to cut London lawyer roles due to pandemic
‘Targeted redundancy process’ will impact 'small number' of associates and staff, global outfit says

BPTC students urge regulator to reconsider COVID-19 exam plans
93% of bar hopefuls surveyed believe BSB's proposals will negatively impact their performance

My electrician makes more than a junior barrister, ex-judge complains
Sir Richard Henriques aghast at tradespeople out-earning lawyers

Pop star Halsey reveals she’s studying law
Singer plans to sit California bar exam