Category: News
Female barristers granted access to top London court’s male-only robing room
Gender should play no part in the role or status of an advocate, says Southwark judge
Hogan Lovells and Eversheds Sutherland reveal 80% autumn retention results
Solid scores from international duo
Kirkland & Ellis ups trainee pay to £50-55k as Macfarlanes boosts to £44-49k
A lot of money for 22 and 23-year-olds
Lady Hale: Solicitor-barrister divide to blame for male dominance of the bench
Calls for more to be done on gender diversity in Belfast speech
White & Case keeps 15 of its 18 London NQs following 17% salary hike
English-qualified lawyers wanted despite Brexit, says US megafirm
Gowling WLG posts 84% autumn retention result
As national outfit Browne Jacobson scores 67%
‘Drunk’ law tutor thrown off Heathrow flight is ordered to pay £4,500
Humanitarian law expert, who the SRA says “is not a member of the profession”, reportedly set to take up teaching role at Durham University
Watch what you tweet: CPS promises to crack down on social media hate crime
But lawyers have concerns
Grateful grad: Bangor student collects first class law degree following successful fundraising appeal
Tuition fee debt had prevented the wannabe lawyer from graduating
Freshfields sends Manchester paralegals on mini-secondments to London, Dubai and Germany
Magic circler extends trainee perk to northern rookies
Solicitor who made anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist Facebook comments handed 12-month suspension
He dared a member of the public to report him, so they did
Linklaters keeps 47 of its 56 trainees upon qualification
Magic circle retains 84% of rookies as newly qualified solicitors
Piers Morgan tells US lawyer that Harvard Law School is ‘somewhere south of Dumb & Dumber’
But gets case law wrong
Ince & Co keeps nine out of ten NQs
As London litigation specialist Stewarts Law retains just one
City solicitor turned East End teacher set to send 95% of pupils to Russell Group unis
Two students even went to White & Case’s Abu Dhabi office for work experience
Strictly Come Dancing: Glasgow law graduate and ex-corporate lawyer Susan Calman announced as contestant
Will she dance with a gavel like Judge Rinder?
Tieless at Travers: City law firm ditches corporate dress code in favour of new casual approach
Unless within eyeshot of a client
Paralegal who worked for two firms at the same time barred from legal profession
A big price to pay for some extra cash
Mass exodus at Mansfield 1 Gray’s Inn Square as 20 barristers join Goldsmith Chambers
Exclusive: Just eight months after merger deal
Lawyers ‘glad’ they didn’t have to cross examine Taylor Swift as pop star’s sassy testimony hits headlines
‘He had a handful of my ass’