Category: News
Future trainee shuns law’s Hunger Games vibe with helpful blog on how to get a training contract
Even includes an application cliché bingo
You’ll do better in morning exams than afternoon ones, new book reveals
Judges are more lenient then too
The Weinstein effect: ‘My once boring practice as an employment barrister has suddenly become glamorous’
#MeToo movement has diluted sexual harassment stigma but 11KBW tenant says bringing legal claims remains tricky
16 City firms make it to LGBT top 100 employer list
Legal profession most represented sector
Role reversal: Linklaters launches scheme which sees junior lawyers mentor senior partners
Diversity and inclusion push
Lady Hale celebrates first birthday since taking Supreme Court’s helm
She will spend it in court
Number of lawyers calling mental health helpline at record high
One half are trainees and junior lawyers
Tributes pour in for blogging and tweeting ex-Court of Appeal judge, who has sadly died
Henry Brooke worked with Lord Denning and sat on the famous conjoined twins case
KFC partners with Eversheds Sutherland to offer first-ever training contract
Fast-food chain joins likes of The Body Shop and Tesco
‘Struggling immigrants should go back to their country’: Nigerian-born ex-Shoosmiths employee awarded £1,000 for PA’s remark
Further claims of discrimination and victimisation dismissed
Serjeants’ Inn Chambers bumps pupillage award by 22% to £55,000
Exclusive: Clinical negligence specialist throws extra £10,000 at its baby barristers
Morning round-up: Tuesday 30 January
The morning's top legal affairs news stories
BLP partner ‘deeply regrets’ Presidents Club attendance as City law firm dismisses ‘main legal adviser’ claims
Outfit distances itself from scandal-hit charity
Over before it’s even began: Two trainee solicitors removed from profession
One was a fraudster, the other lied about storing firm documents
BLP remains tightlipped over claims it was the ‘main legal adviser’ to the scandal-hit Presidents Club
One partner even served on committee, event brochure suggests
Female partners in London earn £165,000 less than male counterparts
Gender bias and nepotism still present, partners think
UK sixth most human rights-friendly country in Europe
Nordic countries more ECHR-compliant, but UK beats Germany, Italy, Spain and 38 others
Privately-educated kids continue to dominate bar despite two thirds of barristers snubbing regulator’s request for schooling info
Overrepresented among pupils, barristers and QCs
Slaughter and May trainees and junior lawyers offered ‘recovery time’ following big deals
As elite magic circle outfit ditches performance-scoring system
Only a barrister could describe a man sneezing on the Tube like this
Ironically, it went viral