Category: News

Director of top London lawtech company Luminance faces US extradition over fraud allegations

Slaughter and May is a high profile backer of business

Nov 27 2019 8:50am

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

Nov 25 2019 1:30pm

First speakers announced for Future of Legal Education and Training Conference London 2020

Sales of Super Early Bird Tickets end this Friday

Nov 25 2019 12:36pm

Lawyer killed by loaded shotgun submitted into evidence

Freak accident occurred at a court in South Africa

Nov 25 2019 8:52am

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

Nov 23 2019 11:00am

This Question Time audience member thinks all solicitors earn over £80,000 a year

Not if you're an employment lawyer in Leeds

Nov 22 2019 11:23am

Fancy eating like a lawyer? Now you can thanks to this new charity cookbook

Nigella Lawson has ordered her copy already

Nov 22 2019 9:00am

BSB boosts minimum pay for pupil barristers following annual review

£18,866 in London and £16,322 elsewhere -- from 1 January 2020

Nov 21 2019 8:48am

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

Nov 20 2019 10:08am

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

Nov 19 2019 12:48pm

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

Nov 19 2019 10:51am

Cardiff University law student appears on Rich Kids Go Skint

Wannabe solicitor spends up to £100 a week on Deliveroo takeaways

Nov 18 2019 3:19pm

It’s official: cryptocurrency is property and smart contracts are binding

Legal statement aims to position UK as fintech and lawtech leader

Nov 18 2019 11:48am

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

Nov 18 2019 9:41am

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

Nov 15 2019 12:00pm

STEM Future Lawyers and BPP launch 2020 GDL scholarship

Applications now open for science students interested in law

Nov 15 2019 11:00am