Category: News

Exclusive: Solicitor suing Oxford Uni over 2:1 trained at Clifford Chance

Faiz Siddiqui bagged a magic circle training contract, but still wants £1 million for lost legal dream

Dec 8 2016 5:03pm

What is going on with Lord Sumption’s ties?

World goes crazy over justice's fashion choices, but it's Lord Pannick QC who really steals the Brexit Supreme Court show

Dec 8 2016 2:56pm

RPC launches new Singapore secondment for London trainees

Opportunity is part of firm's continued expansion into Asia

Dec 8 2016 11:10am

University of Exeter law grad and Trowers & Hamlins trainee storms to victory in BBC choir competition

Eddie Henley and friends crowned Gareth Malone’s 'Best in Britain'

Dec 8 2016 10:26am

Police, priests and hairdressers more ‘trusted’ than lawyers, according to research

But judges fared better in new 'Veracity Index'

Dec 7 2016 3:27pm

Law firm teams up with Liverpool Uni in bid to create clinical negligence robot lawyer

Litigation giant bringing in PhD students to realise AI dream

Dec 7 2016 12:57pm

CMS breaks silence on training contract deferrals… two weeks after Legal Cheek broke the story

Firm denies it has upped compensation payments in wake of online backlash

Dec 7 2016 9:02am

Master of the Rolls wants jobless law grads to represent litigants in person

Let aspiring lawyers gain vital experience in the courts, says Sir Terence Etherton

Dec 6 2016 2:21pm

Gary Slapper: The much-loved legal professor and columnist’s best tweets

As the profession comes to terms with his death, Legal Cheek looks back at Gary Slapper’s life and career

Dec 6 2016 11:56am

Brexit: Freshfields tops Ireland’s lawyer transfer list

A record-breaking 1,347 new solicitors will be added to the Irish roll by the end of the year

Dec 6 2016 11:00am

University of Law unveils BPTC LLM as it slashes cost of standard barrister course

Those taking masters can apply for £10,000 of postgraduate funding

Dec 5 2016 4:06pm

My 2:1 stopped me from becoming a top barrister, argues solicitor as he sues Oxford University

Faiz Siddiqui wants £1 million in damages for lost bar dream

Dec 5 2016 10:25am

Cambridge University law student wins ‘best bum’ competition

Exposure is already improving grades, apparently

Dec 2 2016 10:43am

Bar Council wants to split the BPTC in two and make law school attendance OPTIONAL

The Council of the Inns of Court has also thrown its weight behind the radical new plan

Dec 1 2016 1:48pm

Moving in: Olswang and Nabarro reveal relocation plan to CMS HQ

Firms announced three-way merger deal back in October

Dec 1 2016 11:28am

Top judge says legal profession will ‘struggle’ to retain global status in post-Leave vote era

Lord Chief Justice to lawyers: hard work is on the way

Dec 1 2016 10:51am