Category: News

Transatlantic tie-up: Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner goes live
New outfit led by female duo

SRA will not relax its rules for students caught up in university strikes
As students fight for compensation over lost lectures

‘Her credentials speak for themselves’: CPS chief Alison Saunders to join Linklaters
Magic circle bound after controversial five-year tenure

‘The system is desperate, as are we’: Criminal barristers to REFUSE new work in protest to legal aid cuts
Decision taken with ‘heavy hearts’

Insta-ban? Don’t post photos of yourself in ‘casual settings’, judges told
Also warned not to reveal holiday plans

Oxford law student overcomes legal dispute with Facebook to launch contract law revision app
He came up with the idea while revising for exams

Awkward! Allen & Overy partner stumbles in face of grilling by MPs over non-disclosure agreements
As committee publishes Harvey Weinstein NDA

I haven’t heard back from my vac scheme interview for six weeks — what should I do?
I emailed a month ago but the firm ignored me

Solicitor super-exam one step closer to reality following watchdog approval
Goodbye LPC and GDL?
Pupillage places jump by 7%
New stats show 510 pupils started their training last year

Hogan Lovells posts 78% spring retention figure
Global outfit keeps 25 out of 32 NQs

Exclusive: BPP Liverpool is closing
Students to be compensated as law school shuts doors in June

Clifford Chance reveals 44% gender pay gap – but figure includes mega-earning partners
First firm to calculate its salary statistic in this way

Allen & Overy partner to give evidence before MPs on abuse of non-disclosure agreements in sex harassment cases
Magic circle titan hit headlines over historic role in Harvey Weinstein scandal

Judge asked mini-pupil what her ‘favourite sex position’ was
Shocking claims of sexual harassment surface in magazine article

There’s now a ‘Secret Solicitor’ on the Twitter scene
The Secret Barrister moniker inspires law firm counterpart, but tells Legal Cheek he doubts he'll be as successful

Allen & Overy launches ‘lawtech training contract’
STEM students preferred

Carry on dining: Inns of Court qualifying sessions here to stay, says bar regulator
But more should be held outside London

Junior solicitor ditches law to become a clown
But confesses comical career change isn’t ‘financially stable’

Aspiring barrister, 16, who won a coffee with Lady Hale shares dream of being the next Lord Pannick
He also had lunch with Lord Hodge as part of his student essay competition victory