Category: News
Freshfields, Clifford Chance, BLP, Ashurst and DWF lawyers among 300 to offer support following Manchester bombing pro bono appeal
Twenty-two people were killed and dozens injured after suicide bomber targeted Ariana Grande gig
Liz Truss may not get as much stick if she were a man, suggests QC
Constitutional law debate also includes discussion about Supreme Court justice’s bathing suit...
Twiddling thumbs: decreasing demand for legal services ‘endemic’ in the profession, survey finds
A quarter of US firms said their associates don't have full workloads, and this number shoots up when you look at partners
King’s College London law lecturer compares Lord Sumption to Lord Denning in new research about the Supreme Court judge’s ‘individuality’
The paper starts with a Monty Python quote
High Court judge ‘kissed on the cheek’ during Middle Temple Lane robbery, court hears
Sir Robin Knowles QC was allegedly mugged by man clutching champagne bottle stolen from chambers
BSB approves shared parental leave scheme for self-employed barristers
Regulator hopes the move will encourage more gender diversity within the profession
Brexit: Jolyon Maugham’s Irish High Court challenge has been discontinued
QC crowdfunded £70,000
‘It’s not appropriate’: Top judge expresses concern over McKenzie friends after hearing criminal appeals prepared by law students
Two of the applications received legal support from students at Northumbria University and BPP Law School
Hogan Lovells bumps junior lawyer pay packets by 5% to £75,000
Trainees will take home an extra £1,000
Mark Zuckerberg gets honorary law degree from Harvard, the university he dropped out of to start Facebook
He joins a long list of, sometimes unusual, celebs with honorary degrees
Research: Law degrees are more reliant on EU funding than languages degrees
University law faculties receive millions of pounds a year from Europe -- will Brexit change this?
Seven law firm partners named on 2017 ‘ethnic minority role model’ power list
Lawyers at Freshfields, Linklaters, Slaughter and May, Clifford Chance and BLP all make the cut
Barristers and football agents team up to kick off new ‘innovative’ legal business
VII Law becomes the bar’s first licensed ABS
Revealed: 60% of lawyers think visible tattoos are not acceptable in their firms and chambers
Could we see a discrimination case in the near future?
Nottingham Trent’s student-staffed ‘teaching law firm’ launches commercial advice arm
Legal centre was handed an ABS licence by the SRA in 2015
Exclusive: There are 16,000 barristers currently practising, just 110 have criminal convictions
A third of these were for drink driving
Pro bono appeal: Manchester Law Society calls on lawyers to help victims of arena terrorist attack
Twenty-two people killed after suicide bomber targeted Ariana Grande concert
Cambridge college names first female head in its 700-year history, and she’s an international and company law lecturer
She did her training contract at Clifford Chance
BPP criminal law exam delayed by over an hour due to shortage of question papers
Exclusive: GDL-ers were told to remain in their seats while the problem was resolved
Social media fumes as female QC caught having rush hour romp with male solicitor has criminal record wiped, but his caution stands
The SRA has confirmed it will not bring disciplinary action against him