Category: News

DWF’s Milton Keynes office to close next month
Exclusive: News of the closure comes just weeks after firm's flotation on London Stock Exchange

EY’s foray into law continues with legal outsourcing acquisition
Big four titan snaps up Thomson Reuters' Pangea3

Lawyer who spat at flight attendant during drunken racist rant jailed for six months
Human rights specialist pleaded guilty last month to assault and being drunk on an aircraft

Sexism from judges exaggerated, says Lord Chief Justice
Small number of examples give 'false impression'

Allen & Overy lawyer to face tribunal over Weinstein NDA fiasco
Regulator confident lawyers' attitudes to non-disclosure agreements have changed

Six bar big hitters to speak at Future of Legal Education and Training Conference 2019
Dedicated barrister session to feature practitioners from Hardwicke and Cornerstone, alongside BPTC heads, academics and Inns' director

Government sets up contempt of court hotline to social media companies
As report reveals that Google search tool is naming sex crime victims

It’s ‘foolish’ to blame the solicitor, says Afghan-born barrister stripped of case after client requested ‘white male’
Rehana Popal hit headlines last year after tweeting about incident

Irish law school apologises for ‘ill-judged’ Twitter response to mental health concerns
Maynooth Uni law student questioned decision to schedule land and equity exams the day after each other

Macfarlanes boosts LPC grant to £10,000 as it confirms 100% spring retention score
All six associates kept on

Email fraudsters impersonate Clifford Chance UK managing partner
Spell name wrong in dodgy emails

King’s College history student beats Oxbridge wannabe lawyers to ‘Advocate of the Year’ prize
Bar hopeful Tristan Greene victorious in BPP-backed comp

Struggling to understand how the SQE will affect you? This handy new calculator is here to help
Online tool determines students' best route to solicitor qualification

Ministry of Justice signs historic online betting deal (April Fool!)
Package includes court naming rights and judges’ robe sponsorship

Lawyers among worst for phone etiquette
Irritating habits include eating and drinking or interrupting those speaking, research finds

2 Bedford Row invites aspiring barristers to pupillage interview in error
Exclusive: Promptly disinvites them

Trinity College Dublin law profs split over whether student newspaper bugging halls to expose secret society’s ‘hazing’ was legal
Law school bigwigs wade into covert recording dispute