Category: News

Mr Justice Peter Smith will face disciplinary hearing later this month

Judge of lost luggage fame has been suspended on a full £181,566 salary since May 2016

Oct 6 2017 1:19pm

Mayer Brown and Dechert boost NQ pay to £75k and £95k

Exclusive: London legal salaries keep rising

Oct 6 2017 9:07am

The Apprentice: Lawyers round on ‘law firm’ owner who described himself as a ‘qualified barrister’

Use of professional title called into question during TV show

Oct 5 2017 2:18pm

Henderson Chambers boosts pupillage award by 40% as it unveils new Caribbean secondment

Exclusive: As a plethora of London sets bump rookie barrister pay

Oct 5 2017 9:59am

Warwick University careers adviser at centre of racism row after law student claims she was singled out for being black

Exclusive: Adviser allegedly quoted research and suggested BME candidates submit applications later than their white peers

Oct 4 2017 5:35pm

BSB unveils radical training proposals that could spell end of 12-month pupillages

Compulsory Inns dinners may be thing of the past too, says new consultation paper

Oct 4 2017 12:40pm

Released: The 2018 Firms, Chambers and Law Schools Most Lists

How did your favourite legal institutions do?

Oct 4 2017 11:51am

Tax specialist sues Clifford Chance over excessive workload allegations

But magic circle firm disagrees with former employee's version of events

Oct 3 2017 8:56am

‘Fake law’: Professor debunks claims EU legally bound to punish Spain for Catalan violence

Nearly 40,000 retweets for #SpainOutOfEU call, but lawyer says Europe constrained to stay out of these disputes

Oct 2 2017 1:17pm

It’s official: We now have our first ever female Supreme Court president

Lady Hale hopes to see more female justices in the coming years

Oct 2 2017 11:31am

Allen & Overy NQ pay hits £81,000 as trainees handed £2,000 increases

Exclusive: Yet more magic circle salary boosts

Oct 2 2017 11:01am

US law firm Fried Frank launches London pupillage programme

Rookie barristers will undertake a six-month secondment at a Holborn-based chambers

Sep 29 2017 11:54am

Clifford Chance boosts NQ pay to £87,300

Exclusive: As trainees top magic circle pay table

Sep 29 2017 10:09am

Freshfields forced to send lawyers home early after huge power surge took IT system offline

Exclusive: A workman put a pneumatic drill through a cable

Sep 28 2017 9:58am

Save the date: 4 October will see first ever Supreme Court case heard by more than one woman

Lady Hale and Lady Black to rule on case about ethnic minority barrister’s discrimination claim

Sep 28 2017 9:07am