Category: News
Bye bye Chancery Division
High Court shake-up sees creation of new Business and Property Division
Milbank pushes NQ lawyer pay to $235k
New pay war?
Weil reportedly pays up to $20 million after hackers steal client data
Prevent publication
BCLP confirms it boosted NQ lawyer pay to £125k earlier this year
Rises for trainees too
SRA appeals sanction given to law firm boss who bullied junior female staff
'Insufficiently severe'
Transatlantic tie-up creating Winston Taylor goes live
New BigLaw giant
Clyde & Co opens redundancy talks with support staff
Centralise operations
Spell-check tool to be trialled in SQE2
Follows independent reviewer's recommendation
Kirkland & Ellis sets aside $500 million to build its own AI tools
Serious investment
US firms are hoovering up London’s biggest legal battles, new data suggests
Targeting high value litigation
Gowling WLG launches real estate training contract
Exclusive: New sector focused pathway to run alongside firm's standard TC
Lord Stephens to retire from Supreme Court
Further shake-up for top bench
Pinsent Masons slammed by judge over junior lawyer’s AI blunder
Cited law that didn't exist
Solicitor avoids strike off over antisemitic social media posts
Suspended suspension and restrictions on social media activity
Latest SQE2 pass rate rises to 80%
Up from 78%
Not even Lord Pannick could save Southampton from ‘Spygate’
Blackstone super-silk drafted in for last-ditch appeal bid
Misconduct reports against solicitors soar nearly 60% in two years
SRA under pressure