Category: News

Mayer Brown to re-launch ‘articled route to qualification’ as solicitor apprenticeship

Global firm tweaks school-leaver programme to fit government scheme

Feb 2 2017 11:37am

When lawyers divorce: Court of Appeal sides with Cambridge law lecturer over her City solicitor ex-husband

She earns £53,000, so should he still have to pay maintenance?

Feb 1 2017 3:15pm

‘UK’s top barrister’ fined by Bar Standards Board over website boasts

But legendary topcriminalqc.co.uk site lives on

Feb 1 2017 11:43am

Over 500 barristers sign open letter to BSB chairman attacking training reform proposals

Regulator's consultation into future bar training closed yesterday

Feb 1 2017 8:50am

White & Case unveils 88% spring retention score

US titan’s London office confirms it has taken on a second KWM trainee

Jan 31 2017 3:21pm

Crowdfunding website set up by ex-Linklaters associate launches in US to help bring legal actions against Donald Trump

CrowdJustice part-funded the Brexit judicial review, now it’s heading across the pond

Jan 31 2017 1:58pm

Lord Harley to take strike-off decision to Court of Appeal

He's appealing on Equality Act grounds

Jan 31 2017 11:10am

Success: KWM confirms ALL current trainees have found new homes

Legal Cheek revealed rescue plan back in December

Jan 30 2017 5:18pm

Gina Miller warned she’ll be the ‘next Jo Cox’ as she admits she doesn’t use public transport and has panic buttons in her home

Reveals concerns about safety in same week parliament will debate Article 50 bill

Jan 30 2017 12:44pm

Trump’s Muslim ban: Lawyers descend on airports across the US to help free detainees

The legal profession fights back, as petition set up by Leeds solicitor gains one million signatures

Jan 30 2017 11:34am

Exclusive: Richard Susskind tells law schools to future-proof students with tech modules

Tom Connelly and Katie King interview the legal profession's foremost technology expert

Jan 30 2017 9:59am

It will be 2067 before half of QCs are women, BSB says

Disappointing new diversity stats reveal that gender equality at the bar 'remains an issue'

Jan 30 2017 9:13am

Number of male lawyers reaching out to advice helpline increases

Calls to LawCare on the up overall

Jan 27 2017 1:29pm

Student makes headlines after revealing he’s suffered racist abuse at Bristol law school

Russell Group university has launched an investigation

Jan 27 2017 12:27pm

Posh solicitors pocket almost £7,000 more than ‘working class’ colleagues

Profession dominated by those from "advantaged backgrounds", says government-backed report

Jan 27 2017 9:45am