Category: News

Liverpool law student petitions university to reimburse tuition fees over four-week strike action
First year's calls for £1,000 compensation backed by thousands

Revealed: 2,089 wannabe barristers submit 14,516 applications for just 224 pupillage spots
'May the odds be ever in your favour'

Decision to approve or reject solicitor super-exam delayed
Legal Services Board gives itself more time to consider LPC and GDL's demise

Dentons partner leaves firm following allegations of sexual misconduct
But global outfit says it found no evidence of harassment

Top QC expresses fear over waning influence of British lawyers in development of EU law
Media doesn't help by ignoring contribution by UK advocates, says Baroness Helena Kennedy

SRA appeals tribunal’s decision to show mercy on junior lawyer whose hair fell out as she struggled to meet billing targets
Received a suspended ban for faking documents

Tort textbooks set for update as new Supreme Court judgment changes law of negligence
Donoghue v Stevenson, Caparo v Dickman and Hill v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police all get a mention

High Court showdown on the cards as SRA confirms Leigh Day tribunal appeal
Two partners and junior solicitor previously cleared in Iraqi torture case

Ex-Clifford Chance trainee LOSES bid to sue Oxford University over ‘inadequate’ teaching
Faiz Siddiqui was seeking £1 million for lost legal dream

Average junior lawyer pay at Bird & Bird and Taylor Wessing HIGHER for women than men
As Pinsent Masons also releases gender pay stats

Linklaters becomes first magic circle firm to reveal gender pay gap stats
Structure of workforce behind 39% figure

‘Zombie’ corporate lawyer avoids being struck off for dishonesty after being left ‘physically and emotionally drained’ by workload
He sent misleading emails to buy himself time

BPP student who fell victim to theft reunited with highlighted and tabbed company law textbook after public plea
Her laptop is still missing, though

Embrace your inner Branson and Zuckerberg, barristers told
Middle Temple wants members to come across less pompous

RPC launches new training contracts with 2018 start date
No two-year wait for firm's Bristol trainees

Baker McKenzie partner at centre of sexual assault scandal will be leaving the firm
As firm admits 'we should have handled it better'

BPP launches legal tech module for LPC students
Law school giant in digital skills push

Lawyers share their biggest humiliations, from dozing in court to falling off chairs in interviews
It's all to show failure is normal

Old Square Chambers ups pupil pay by a quarter in London and Bristol
Exclusive: Rookies will now earn £50,000

Baker McKenzie reaches ‘confidential settlement’ with female associate who was allegedly sexually assaulted by partner
Incident occurred several years ago

Slaughter and May’s 2018 spring retention rate is 95%
Firm 'very pleased' as 35 rookies qualify into magic circle outfit