Category: News

Tax specialist sues Clifford Chance over excessive workload allegations

But magic circle firm disagrees with former employee's version of events

Oct 3 2017 8:56am

‘Fake law’: Professor debunks claims EU legally bound to punish Spain for Catalan violence

Nearly 40,000 retweets for #SpainOutOfEU call, but lawyer says Europe constrained to stay out of these disputes

Oct 2 2017 1:17pm

It’s official: We now have our first ever female Supreme Court president

Lady Hale hopes to see more female justices in the coming years

Oct 2 2017 11:31am

Allen & Overy NQ pay hits £81,000 as trainees handed £2,000 increases

Exclusive: Yet more magic circle salary boosts

Oct 2 2017 11:01am

US law firm Fried Frank launches London pupillage programme

Rookie barristers will undertake a six-month secondment at a Holborn-based chambers

Sep 29 2017 11:54am

Clifford Chance boosts NQ pay to £87,300

Exclusive: As trainees top magic circle pay table

Sep 29 2017 10:09am

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

Sep 28 2017 9:58am

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

Sep 28 2017 9:07am

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

Sep 27 2017 3:05pm

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

Sep 27 2017 10:36am

Legal Cheek signs with Reviewed & Cleared

Your favourite website joins forces with top media law firm whose clients include The Tab, Dazed and NME

Sep 26 2017 12:36pm

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

Sep 26 2017 11:33am

Mishcon de Reya boosts NQ salaries by 6% to £67,000

Exclusive: As Bristows bumps junior lawyer pay by 5%

Sep 26 2017 10:25am

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

Sep 26 2017 9:28am

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’

Sep 25 2017 11:35am