Category: News

Don’t become ‘hired guns’ for clients, regulator warns solicitors
SRA reminds lawyers to adhere to professional obligations, particularly when drafting NDAs

Phone-hacking lawyer Mark Lewis fined £2,500 for posting offensive tweets
A crowdfunding page has been set up to help cover his financial penalty and costs

80% of law internships are unpaid
Substantial confusion on the law concerning work placements, social mobility report finds

First speakers announced for Future of Legal Education and Training Conference 2019
Big names from law and academia to appear at Kings Place London

Junior lawyer MP to face retrial in speeding ticket case after jury fail to reach verdict
Property law specialist Fiona Onasanya was accused of allegedly lying to avoid prosecution

Norton Rose Fulbright to double size of Newcastle legal hub
Global law firm looks to tap into the region's top universities and skilled talent

Labour would stop BPTC ‘racket’ run by ‘profiteers’
Let Inns offer the vocational course, says shadow attorney-general Baroness Chakrabarti

Lord Sumption tells barristers they’ve been getting it wrong on legal aid
Maverick Supreme Court judge says state funding is essential for crime but 'discretionary' for civil work — and bar needs to accept the public think they’re 'rich toffs', however unfair that may be

State educated? You’ve more chance of getting into a City law firm if you attended one these ‘elite’ schools
Did yours make the list? ?

Big Four giant KPMG to DOUBLE lawyer headcount to over 3,000 within ‘next few years’
It would make it one of the largest law firms in the world

Drunken criminal barrister who asked pupil if he’d ‘ever taken a woman from behind’ is fined £1,000
The tribunal's decision is open to appeal

Revealed: Law firms’ average arrive and leave the office times 2018-19
Who works the most, and the least?

The Apprentice: High street solicitor still in the running after art dealing challenge
Contains spoilers: Sarah Ann Magson one step closer to £250,000 investment

Five barristers to share secrets of securing pupillage and forging successful careers at the bar
Practitioners from 5 Essex Court, Hardwicke, 4 New Square and Landmark, and ULaw BPTC grad future pupil, to share experiences at free Legal Cheek student event on evening of Tuesday 4 December in London

Cost of super-exam is a ‘major concern’, says Junior Lawyers’ Division
SQE fees could hit £4,500, but prep course prices remain unknown

ULaw to launch Hong Kong campus
Legal education giant's first overseas outpost to open September 2019

New CPS chief turns up at Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court to spend morning prosecuting
Max Hill QC rolls up his sleeves and joins the front line

Supreme Court rejects government’s appeal bid in Brexit reversal case
European Court of Justice will now look at whether the UK can unilaterally revoke its Article 50 request

Solicitor who told SRA to shove costs bill up its ‘arse’ is struck off
Luke Venton also sent expletive-filled emails to former colleagues and a recruitment agency