Category: News
US law firm Fried Frank launches London pupillage programme
Rookie barristers will undertake a six-month secondment at a Holborn-based chambers
Clifford Chance boosts NQ pay to £87,300
Exclusive: As trainees top magic circle pay table
Too many students aspire to be Harvey Specter ‘rainmakers’, says law school director
It’s not what firms want
‘Unprecedented’: Tribunal slams celebrated blind judge over handling of 13 immigration cases in brutal judgment
Lawyers have never seen anything like it
Freshfields forced to send lawyers home early after huge power surge took IT system offline
Exclusive: A workman put a pneumatic drill through a cable
Save the date: 4 October will see first ever Supreme Court case heard by more than one woman
Lady Hale and Lady Black to rule on case about ethnic minority barrister’s discrimination claim
Brexit news: City heavyweights moot judicial panel for UK/EU disputes as former judge questions May’s ‘national story’ speech
Panel would not directly impact on national laws
Baker McKenzie keeps 15 out of 16 NQs, including two ex-KWM trainees
The one rookie who left the firm has joined a finance company
Full Leigh Day judgment revealed: Firm’s solicitors not ‘people who put financial advantage above professional duty’
But partner Martyn Day not ‘a credible, honest or convincing witness’, one tribunal member says
Legal Cheek signs with Reviewed & Cleared
Your favourite website joins forces with top media law firm whose clients include The Tab, Dazed and NME
Judge Rinder ‘litigant’ claims to have faked legal row to secure £5,000 ITV payout
Sam Horner took pal to TV courtroom after discovering show coughs up damages, according to report
Mishcon de Reya boosts NQ salaries by 6% to £67,000
Exclusive: As Bristows bumps junior lawyer pay by 5%
Senior barrister told BPTC student ‘I don’t trust fags like you’, shocking new LGBT+ research reveals
Homophobia appears to be worse at the bar than it is across other workplaces
Lawyers round on license-stripped Uber’s ‘dishonourable history’ as stricken company calls on Hogan Lovells to fight appeal
One says defending Uber is as out of fashion as defending Brexit, others think TfL’s decision is ‘Stalinist’
Fake Squire Patton Boggs website given court approval in bizarre decision
A training contract at squirepattonboggs.net may differ somewhat to scheme at squirepattonboggs.com
Commissioner ‘confident’ Labour-backed legal aid report, launched 100 days after Grenfell fire, will make it to the statute books
£400 million plan could revolutionise justice system
Jones Day junior lawyer runs marathon in a three-piece suit
Tells Legal Cheek he woke up at 5am every day to fit in morning run
Chemsex junior barrister opens up about boyfriend’s death and his suspension from legal profession
Henry Hendron admits he turned to drugs to escape the pressure of his legal career
Cardiff in law school first as it unveils live lion mascot
It’s the pride of the Russell Group university