Category: News

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

General election 2019: Oxford educated ex-Slaughter and May lawyers go head-to-head in Middlesbrough
Former magic circle duo even attended the same private school

Two months into her training contract and Eve Cornwell reveals what magic circle trainee life is like
Busy rush hour commutes, free breakfast, two mobile phones and getting to grips with time recording

Cardiff University law student appears on Rich Kids Go Skint
Wannabe solicitor spends up to £100 a week on Deliveroo takeaways

It’s official: cryptocurrency is property and smart contracts are binding
Legal statement aims to position UK as fintech and lawtech leader

Three judges get into drunken brawl, two end up with bullet wounds
They’d gone out for a quiet drink ahead of a judicial training day the next morning

US Supreme Court legend Ruth Bader Ginsburg now has her own Lady Hale spider pin
'Notorious RBG' thanks lawyers at 2 Bedford Row for arachnid fashion item

STEM Future Lawyers and BPP launch 2020 GDL scholarship
Applications now open for science students interested in law