Category: News

Labour conference round-up: Party says it will open law centres and raises concerns over digitisation of justice
Legal aid is a 'pillar of the welfare state', says shadow justice minister

Obscenity trial: Judge’s copy of Lady Chatterley’s Lover expected to fetch £15,000
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Bar Council ups Pupillage Gateway application limit from 12 to 20
Centralised system reopens on 28 November

The Apprentice: ULaw grad and solicitor among this year’s contestants
Aspiring City lawyer Kurran Pooni and civil specialist Sarah Ann Magson to battle it out before Lord Sugar in this year’s series

Lincoln’s Inn reveals first images of new advocacy mega-bunker
Multi-million pound redevelopment nears completion

PwC strikes ‘strategic alliance’ with US law firm
Big Four's assault on the legal market continues

Bar Council slams plan to allow solicitors to qualify as barristers without pupillage
Regulator's proposal could also include law lecturers

Ropes & Gray combines contextual recruitment and CV blind in revamped trainee hiring process
US player will now recruit rookies exclusively from its vac scheme

Barrister disbarred after claiming Nazi spies were plotting to nuke the Queen during London Olympics
Michael Shrimpton was jailed in 2015 for communicating false information

Defending The Guilty: Lawyers split over new BBC barrister comedy
Series follows the exploits of four tenancy-hungry pupils

London law firm advertises ‘voluntary’ three-month internship
It's unclear whether the role is paid or not

Research: Over 80% of lawyers ‘dislike’ lawyers
Half believe their co-workers are lazy

AI-brewed Paisley Snail Pale Ale is now a thing
Donoghue v Stevenson for the tech age

Tycoon worth £34 million paid ‘prestigious’ law firm £95,000 to help prove he couldn’t pay ex-wife £200,000
High Court described it as an 'affront to justice'

DLA Piper boosts junior lawyer pay to £77,000 as City rises continue
Global giant's trainees also handed extra cash

A third of solicitors attacked or threatened, new research suggests
Vast majority of incidents took place within offices or a court

Meet the law grad Instagram star who looks just like Ryan Gosling
Who needs a training contract when you have a face like a Hollywood superstar

Hogan Lovells partner ordered to pay £18,000 after sacking pregnant nanny
Employment tribunal judge finds City lawyer's nanny was unfairly dismissed

Eversheds Sutherland bumps London NQ lawyer pay to £72,000
Trainees also handed pay boosts

Supreme Court gets first ever female majority
Two male and three female justices will hear a case next month in gender equality milestone