Category: News

KWM 2.0 touts paralegal roles to trainees who had training contract offers cancelled

International giant's new incarnation is on a recruitment drive

Mar 24 2017 11:28am

Non-white, female lawyer at 11KBW says she’s ‘fed up’ with people doubting that she’s a barrister

Harini Iyengar asked 'Wow, are you actually a barrister?' in Temple today

Mar 23 2017 1:32pm

Daily Express forced to make huge correction to human rights story, again

Yet the tabloid newspaper has just released a slideshow explainer about the ECHR...

Mar 23 2017 12:28pm

Westminster law student launches ‘rent a final year’ website for struggling litigants-in-person

Students will act as McKenzie friends, for up to £100 a day

Mar 23 2017 11:39am

Soon-to-retire Lord Chief Justice absolutely slammed Liz Truss in parliament this morning

Lawyers question whether his outburst was unprecedented

Mar 22 2017 12:52pm

There are a lot of barristers running in this Thursday’s City of London elections

Over half of the 22 candidates vying for Farringdon Without ward are lawyers

Mar 22 2017 9:17am

Colombian law firm ‘falsely’ claims to be Linklaters’ agent in arbitration letters

Regulator issues warning over magic circle mimic

Mar 21 2017 1:55pm

Cambridge-educated law lecturer uses contract HE DRAFTED to force Tesco security brother out of £750,000 Hampstead flat

Filip Saranovic is a maritime law specialist at the University of Southampton

Mar 21 2017 8:58am

It will cost you over £500 more to do the LPC this year than it would have done last year

2017/2018 price list shows fees up by as much as 11% at some universities

Mar 20 2017 1:38pm

Click here for ‘Guilty’ plea: Automated convictions legislation in Commons today

MPs to debate proposed online procedures, virtual hearings and much, much more

Mar 20 2017 12:37pm

House of Lords fears Brexit uncertainty is already having a detrimental impact on UK legal services

Baroness Helena Kennedy QC tells Tories to ‘urgently’ adopt interim measures to help stop this

Mar 20 2017 9:14am

Double trouble: Cocaine conspiracy lawyer who was disbarred last month has now been struck off by SDT

Omar Khan slapped with a three-year prison term last spring

Mar 17 2017 2:47pm

Average BPTC fee drops by just £72 as law schools release 2017/18 prices

ULaw cuts course cost by 8% but Northumbria and Cardiff increase theirs by 6%

Mar 17 2017 1:51pm

And the winners of the Legal Cheek Awards are…

Osborne Clarke and Baker McKenzie each bag brace as Burges Salmon scoops overall award and Slaughter and May wins ‘Most Admired’

Mar 17 2017 12:54pm

‘Ambulance chasing’ lawyer Phil Shiner declared bankrupt, weeks after he sold house to Middlesex University law lecturer daughter

Bethany Shiner and sister Leisha both used to work for their dad’s now defunct law firm

Mar 17 2017 11:29am