Category: News

Solicitor who describes himself as ‘probably the best drink drive lawyer’ in the country slammed for trying to reach out to Ant McPartlin on LinkedIn
Altaf Hussain called a 'scumbag' and 'unprofessional', but defends post

Freshfields’ gender pay gap smallest of the magic circle so far
Four out of five have now released their stats

York law student shares commercial awareness wisdom in daily quick-fire YouTube videos
Tells Legal Cheek short clips help busy students digest news without trawling pages of the FT

Lady Hale ‘confident’ Supreme Court will go to Wales next year, but ‘logistical issues’ make trip up North less likely
Top judge also shares her difficulty making sense of EU court judgments

Baker McKenzie and Simmons & Simmons reveal 80% plus retention scores
Spring season gathers pace

Latham & Watkins managing partner RESIGNS after admitting ‘exchange of communications of a sexual nature’
Legal profession rocked by new misconduct scandal

Number of ‘super law schools’ taking over 500 law students a year more than doubles
Exclusive: Huge increase in law student numbers, though some unis experience major falls

Ex-Clifford Chance trainee who failed in bid to sue Oxford University over ‘inadequate’ teaching faces £75,000 legal bill
Permission to appeal original decision also refused

Exeter law students embroiled in racism scandal suspended over vile WhatsApp messages
University and police investigating -- as one student has training contract offer revoked

Law Society recommends 3% boost to minimum trainee salary
£21,561 in London and £19,122 elsewhere -- but figures only guidance and not enforceable

Morning round-up: Tuesday 20 March
The morning's top legal affairs news stories

Linklaters completes magic circle retention season with 84% result
Global giant keep 43 out of 51 spring NQs

Supreme Court’s innovation judge to join solicitors and law academics at expanded Future of Legal Education and Training Conference
Lord Briggs, PJ Kirby QC, and BSB chief Dr Vanessa Davies among latest batch of speakers
Gender pay gap stats are in for Ashurst, BLP, Charles Russell Speechlys, Stephenson Harwood and Walker Morris
Differences of one quarter to a third commonplace, though bonus gaps far higher

Hold off on super-exam decision for six more months, MPs urge
Another day, another delay?

And the winners of the Legal Cheek Awards 2018 are…
Who won what: revealed

Exclusive: Start-up chaired by corporate law legend, Sir Nigel Knowles, sued by ex-director
DWF's head honcho under fire over unpaid shares claim

‘Irreversible damage’: Panama Papers law firm Mossack Fonseca to close
Outfit was victim of mass data breach in 2016