Category: News

A third of lawyers earn more than £100k
Fat cat figures beat insurance, consulting and tech professions

Tens of thousands of magic circle email addresses and passwords discovered on Dark Web
Phishing scams and data theft loom as more than 80,000 lawyer credentials found online

Revealed: The best barristers’ chambers for training
The results of the Legal Cheek Pupil and Junior Barrister Survey are in

LSE law graduate pulls punches with fitness business staffed by ex-prisoners
Tough workouts with social justice at their heart

Final year becomes third Bristol law student in 14 months to die in suspected suicide
University encourages students and staff affected by news to contact support services

Twitter explodes with inspirational #mypathtolaw stories
And some that aren't so inspirational

Ex-Supreme Court president Lord Neuberger is touring non-Russell Group universities and state schools with a future CMS trainee
Exclusive: Pair seek to do good with their unlikely friendship

Clifford Chance keeps 44 of its 48 spring NQs
As Trowers & Hamlins confirms six of its seven rookies are staying put

Dentons partner suspended following allegations of sexual misconduct
Claims date back to solicitor's time at Scottish outfit Maclay Murray & Spens

QC launches scathing attack on Judge Rinder for ‘denigrating the law’
But many silks disagree

London barristers more than twice as likely to secure silk than Northern peers
Top QC concerned there may be a pattern of under-representation

Taylor Wessing lawyer who rowed Atlantic in memory of his mother breaks world record
The emotional story behind senior associate George Biggar’s transatlantic feat

Over a third of trainee solicitors are being paid LESS than Law Society minimum wage
Law Society tells Legal Cheek salary recommendation is under review

Lady Hale among judicial celebs to watch new Lord Chancellor sworn in
We learnt he once spent a night in a prison cell

Solicitor super-exam proposals submitted for formal approval
Regulator’s plan to scrap GDL and LPC moves one step closer to reality

London law student handed suspended sentence over part in £750,000 fraud
‘Severe question mark’ over her legal career

Number of new law students up by one fifth since tuition fee hike
Exclusive: Law bucks the trend as overall student numbers fall

Clifford Chance and Freshfields boost LPC grants by 43%
Exclusive: £3,000 more than Allen & Overy, Linklaters and Slaughter and May

House of Lords peer reports Hogan Lovells to regulator over claims it ‘walked into a web of corruption for a fat fee’
International firm hits back at ‘unfounded’ accusations

A matter of life and death: Supreme Court justices hear capital punishment case
Top barristers at Matrix Chambers defend man sentenced to hang