Category: News

Linklaters completes magic circle’s spring retention season with solid 86% result

The outfit's new associates will be based in London, Hong Kong and Dubai

Mar 16 2017 1:13pm

You have to read this Hawaii judge’s Donald Trump smack-down

President’s latest immigration ban has been temporarily blocked

Mar 16 2017 11:02am

Norton Rose Fulbright unveils spring retention rate of 83%

Twenty trainees have accepted full-time associate roles at the global giant

Mar 16 2017 10:06am

EU citizens should be given ‘unrestricted access’ to UK jobs after Brexit, the Bar Council says

Bar chiefs urge negotiators to protect the free movement of people

Mar 16 2017 9:10am

Osborne Clarke posts perfect 100% spring retention score

All six March qualifiers have committed their future to the international firm

Mar 15 2017 3:48pm

‘F*CK LAWYERS!’: Hill Dickinson’s office daubed with rude graffiti

International outfit's HQ targeted by vandals

Mar 15 2017 2:38pm

Supreme Court backs three animal charities over struggling daughter on benefits in a row about her dead mum’s will

We spoke to a Cambridge law academic about the controversial decision

Mar 15 2017 11:19am

Revealed: The shortlist for the Trainee and Junior Lawyer Firm of the Year 2017

Ahead of the Legal Cheek Awards tomorrow evening in London, the final shortlist is unveiled

Mar 15 2017 9:03am

Scanning a defendant’s brain can establish mens rea, claim neuroscientists

Will the results be used in the courtroom?

Mar 14 2017 12:31pm

Morning round-up: Tuesday 14 March

The morning's top legal affairs news stories

Mar 14 2017 7:36am

‘There is no incentive for junior lawyers to qualify into criminal law’, says Junior Lawyers Division

And there will be even less incentive after MoJ pay reforms

Mar 13 2017 2:23pm

Bragging barristers: Bar Council issues fresh guidance for online etiquette

Just weeks after Michael Wolkind QC was fined over website claims

Mar 13 2017 12:49pm

Law firm partner’s career hangs in the balance after High Court headbutt attack on EastEnders star’s father

Property law specialist Philip Saunders handed an 18-month suspended sentence

Mar 13 2017 11:10am

LGBT moot: BPP Law School snatches victory from 2016 winners Oxford University

The competition was judged by some of the country's leading human rights specialists

Mar 13 2017 9:11am

‘How Twitter works’ appendix to Katie Hopkins libel judgment was penned by rookie barrister, reveals phone hacking lawyer

But 5RB’s Greg Callus insists viral guide was a team effort as Jack Monroe describes him as “lovely”

Mar 11 2017 4:00pm

Freshfields unveils 84% spring retention score

Magic circle outfit keeps 31 of its 37 NQs

Mar 10 2017 3:43pm

Pants on fire: Lawyer’s trousers burst into flames while defending client accused of arson

Stephen Gutierrez blamed the crotch combustion on a faulty e-cigarette battery

Mar 10 2017 10:18am