Category: News

Fine for former Schillings operations chief who flogged 95 firm phones
He pocketed over £13,500

YouTuber parodies Kim Kardashian applying to Harvard Law School
Comedian Benito Skinner plays out infamous Legally Blonde video application scene

Over 35 MPs enrol for work experience with legal aid lawyers
#TakeYourMPToWork campaign aims to highlight pressing need for properly funded justice system

Baker McKenzie cuts 46 support roles in London
International outfit also reportedly looking to move to smaller -- but swankier -- City office space

Herbert Smith Freehills launches London advocacy secondment for junior lawyers
In-house option sees associates spend 12 months working with global outfit's top advocates

Allen & Overy ups NQ solicitor package to £100,000 as City pay war intensifies
Six-figure sum includes sign-on bonus

Clifford Chance launches first legal project management apprenticeship
Scheme doesn't lead to qualification as a solicitor

Social mobility fail: two thirds of top judges went to private schools
Senior judges 'most socially exclusive' group among Britain's elite, Sutton Trust research finds

Travers Smith keeps 17 out of 21 London qualifying trainees
Retention result of 81%

Hogan Lovells ups newly qualified pay to £90k plus bonus in package worth up to £117k
Exclusive: Transatlantic firm makes MoneyLaw move

Junior lawyers seek to have approval of the SQE overturned
Letter to Justice Committee aims to skewer super-exam

Arden University registers as SQE prep provider
Ex-BPP chief's new outfit prepares to deliver super-exam course

RPC posts low 42% autumn retention rate
Five out of 12 qualifying trainees kept on

Trainee solicitor calls on government to give people time off work to make life-saving stem cell donations
Paul Fletcher-Herd launches online petition

Slaughter and May raises newly qualified salary to £92k plus bonus in pay package that sees it join the ‘100 Club’
Total package is worth over £100,000

Leigh Day junior lawyer apologises after suspension for ‘sarcastic’ Hitler tweet
Ex-Labour council candidate Aman Thakar appeared on BBC's Tory leadership debate

Legal profession launches gender equality pledge
Signatories commit to supporting women into top lawyer roles

BPP University to be sold
Law school set to change hands again in big money deal

SDT refuses to drop case against Freshfields partner accused of sexual misconduct
Ryan Beckwith previously argued charges were beyond regulator's remit

Judge tells cocaine user he ‘should suffer no more than former Lord Chancellor’
Even the courts are mocking Michael Gove's coke admission

Fine for drunk trainee solicitor who spat at bouncer
Pleaded guilty to acting in an aggressive manner