Category: News
Legal aid in, tuition fees out: Labour’s leaked manifesto
Jeremy Corbyn promises the world
White & Case boosts London NQ pay packets by 17% to £105,000
Trainees will trouser an extra £2,000
More people want to date lawyers than any other profession
Two have been named most-wanted singles in London
Hogan Lovells trials new ‘continuous feedback’ system to assess lawyer performance
Global giant presses pause on lengthy annual reviews
Lord Sumption slams TWO of his fellow judges in strongly-worded contract law speech
And then goes on to confess his love for dictionaries
Law lecturers accuse SRA of ‘disingenuous reporting’ over super-exam consultation responses
But regulator says it's published everything it can
New court drama hoping to show viewers the ‘inner workings of the justice system’ will star real QCs and an ex-Old Bailey judge
The Trial: A Murder in the Family will air on Channel 4 later this month
History made: The number of law school applications from women is now over DOUBLE the number of applications from men
Exclusive: Female first years likely to outnumber men two to one
LSE tort exam includes question about ‘Nigel’ and ‘Donald’ drinking beer and crashing a plane into the River Thames
Exclusive: 'Boris' also gets knocked off his bike
CMS implements new ‘dress code guidance’ to help its suit-favouring lawyers blend in with more casual Olswang colleagues
The two firms merged with Nabarro last week
Law students are more likely to be psychopaths than their psychology-studying peers — but economics and business students are the ‘darkest’
The study looked at Machiavellianism and narcissism too
Top lawyers clash over whether we should have a written constitution
Is now the UK’s ‘constitutional moment’?
The SQE is a revolution which American law schools should learn from, says US legal education expert
'You need different roads to Rome'
Eversheds Sutherland, Pinsent Masons and DLA Piper surpass magic circle rivals in 2017 brand power list
Based on the opinions of almost 500 top businesses
BPP equity and trusts exam disturbed by ‘pumping music’ so loud ‘the desks were vibrating from the bass’
Exclusive: It was like being in a club
A Manchester Metropolitan law student is standing for UKIP in the general election
His campaign clashes with his final year exams
Oxford PPE student warns that Oxford law students risk being ‘left behind’ because their degree is too traditional
Law schools need to adapt, even the best ones
KWM kitty: Ex-partners encouraged to donate up to £2,500 each to help staff affected by firm’s collapse
The international outfit's European arm entered into administration earlier this year
Ashurst unveils spring retention rate of 85%
17 trainees from a cohort of 20 commit their future to the silver circle firm
Shearman & Sterling hikes London NQ pay by over 10% to £105,000
More experienced associates also cash in