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

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

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?

Former Freshfields partner arrested in tax probe
A week after quitting magic circle firm

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'

Ex-Appeal judge reveals she was once rejected by chambers over fear male barristers would ‘make passes’ at her
Tenants' wives wouldn’t like it, Dame Elizabeth Gloster told

EXCLUSIVE: Former bosses of ULaw and Kaplan combine with magic circle duo to launch new ‘challenger’ law school
They’re targeting the SQE market

Strike off for solicitor who helped client conceal damages from ‘controlling’ husband
'Acted out of character'

Director of top London lawtech company Luminance faces US extradition over fraud allegations
Slaughter and May is a high profile backer of business

London chambers offers aspiring barristers a flavour of life at the bar through new pupillage podcast
Top tips and insights from 4 New Square tenants

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

First speakers announced for Future of Legal Education and Training Conference London 2020
Sales of Super Early Bird Tickets end this Friday

Half of judges will be women by 2033, Lady Hale predicts
'We’ve done the sums'

Lawyer killed by loaded shotgun submitted into evidence
Freak accident occurred at a court in South Africa

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

This Question Time audience member thinks all solicitors earn over £80,000 a year
Not if you're an employment lawyer in Leeds

British lawtech entrepreneur launches AI tool that identifies ‘loopholes’ in contracts
Taking the torment out of T&Cs?

Fancy eating like a lawyer? Now you can thanks to this new charity cookbook
Nigella Lawson has ordered her copy already

BSB boosts minimum pay for pupil barristers following annual review
£18,866 in London and £16,322 elsewhere -- from 1 January 2020

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

Staffordshire Uni law grad representing himself persuades High Court to hear potentially historic benefits case — if he can raise the money
Michael Connor crowdfunding to keep anti-austerity case alive