Category: News

Criminal bar chief creates Love Island translator for lawyers
‘Got a text’ = a new brief has arrived in chambers

Travers Smith joins NQ salary war with package of up to £110,500
Boost comes as City player confirms 4% bump in PEP to £1.25 million

Trio of top judges fend off criticism on £1.2 billion court modernisation programme
Widely-condemned court closures are means of 'liberating capital' where 'money is not limitless', select committee hears

Slaughter and May keeps 37 out of 40 newly qualifying trainee solicitors
Strong 93% retention result comes as magic circle firm ups GDL maintenance grant to £10,000

Selfie-taking lawyer gored by bull during Spanish festival
US criminal defence specialist recovering in hospital

Legal Twitterati sent into overdrive after former PM threatens to take Boris Johnson to court to stop a no-deal Brexit
John Major says he'd consider lawyering up to stop the Queen suspending the House of Commons

Criminal defence solicitor expecting child with Celebrity Big Brother reality star
Couple met after she represented Jeremy McConnell for assaulting Hollyoaks actress Stephanie Davis

This is the ‘behaviour contract’ Love Island contestants have to sign
Strict rules regarding alcohol, drugs, sex, smoking and contact with the outside world

Pride 2019: Lawyers take to London’s streets to celebrate LGBT+ rights
Pride Jubilee marked half-century since Stonewall uprising

Lincoln, Glasgow and Aberystwyth Unis home to nation’s happiest law students
Trio top National Student Survey for LLB satisfaction; ULaw performs strongly across the board; Russell Group struggle

Edge Hill Uni law grad left tetraplegic after horror car smash set to realise barrister dream
Simon Arnold defies odds to secure pupillage

Aspiring barrister jailed for grooming over 140 children online
Aberystwyth Uni law grad handed 10 year sentence

Nearly a third of magic circle trainees went to Oxbridge
This despite making up less than 1% of each year’s graduating class

Stephenson Harwood ups junior lawyer pay to £75,000
Trainees also handed extra cash

British 22-year-old lawtech entrepreneur raises £3.7 million from Facebook and Airbnb backers to help fund ‘robot lawyer’ app
Joshua Browder secures big financial boost

International human rights lawyer jailed for spitting at air crew found dead
Body of Simone Burns discovered at Beachy Head cliffs in East Sussex

BPTC grads more likely to get pupillage if they’re white
Ethnic minorities with same marks as white peers find it harder to get a place at chambers, figures show

Supreme Court chiefs celebrate 10th anniversary with official portrait launch
Team Supreme snaps unveiled by Hale

British barrister faces extradition to Turkey over ‘propaganda’ charges
Ozcan Keles accused of spreading propaganda online