Category: News

Trump’s Muslim ban: Lawyers descend on airports across the US to help free detainees

The legal profession fights back, as petition set up by Leeds solicitor gains one million signatures

Jan 30 2017 11:34am

Exclusive: Richard Susskind tells law schools to future-proof students with tech modules

Tom Connelly and Katie King interview the legal profession's foremost technology expert

Jan 30 2017 9:59am

It will be 2067 before half of QCs are women, BSB says

Disappointing new diversity stats reveal that gender equality at the bar 'remains an issue'

Jan 30 2017 9:13am

Number of male lawyers reaching out to advice helpline increases

Calls to LawCare on the up overall

Jan 27 2017 1:29pm

Student makes headlines after revealing he’s suffered racist abuse at Bristol law school

Russell Group university has launched an investigation

Jan 27 2017 12:27pm

Posh solicitors pocket almost £7,000 more than ‘working class’ colleagues

Profession dominated by those from "advantaged backgrounds", says government-backed report

Jan 27 2017 9:45am

Stint on the sex offenders register for City lawyer who racially and sexually assaulted woman at Christmas party

He also poured beer over his victim's head and called her an "Australian slut"

Jan 26 2017 1:48pm

The best use of social media that we’ve seen this year

Which solicitors, barristers and students have been wowing their peers?

Jan 26 2017 12:17pm

Bar Council calls for BTPC cost reduction as it slams BSB’s training reform proposals

Representative and regulator clash over barristers' education

Jan 26 2017 11:18am

There are nearly 4,000 more solicitors on the roll now than there were just after the Brexit referendum

But the number of lawyers with practising certificates has actually gone down

Jan 26 2017 10:48am

Morning round-up: Thursday 26 January

The morning’s top legal affairs news stories

Jan 26 2017 7:48am

Brexit legal challenge barrister to launch pro bono project to keep government in check

"I feel uncomfortable with the direction our country is going in", says Jolyon Maugham QC

Jan 25 2017 3:33pm

Supreme Court rules Theresa May CANNOT trigger Article 50 without parliamentary approval

Most important constitutional law case of a generation concludes with an unexpected split decision

Jan 24 2017 11:01am

Updated ‘Our History’ page on KWM’s website glosses over administration woes

It says the firm has "reduced its lawyer numbers in Europe"

Jan 24 2017 9:02am

Junior barrister Amal Clooney more influential in law than Supreme Court justices

Posh bible Debrett’s reveals its top 20 lawyers

Jan 23 2017 1:00pm

Olympian and Bristol law grad appears on TV talent competition ‘The Voice’

Scooped up by will.i.am, but a career in law is "still an option" for Jazmin Sawyers

Jan 23 2017 11:43am

Bar Council backs Liz Truss on Brexit

It’s been a good week for the Ministry of Justice ?

Jan 20 2017 1:00pm