Category: News
Is the bar’s appeal to the best graduates destroying the magic circle?
In America the top legal talent joins law firms -- but not always in Britain
Warwick and Edinburgh leapfrogged by London South Bank in shock new Guardian law degree rankings
Dark days for regional Russell Group-ers
Baker McKenzie partner attacked at train station, law student jumps in to help
Now John Rowley wants to find the have-a-go hero so he can say thank you
Six legal tech start-ups selected for Mishcon de Reya’s innovation incubator
They will spend ten weeks at the City outfit’s new ‘MDR LAB’
Exclusive: Freshfields trainees bemoan lack of PA support as firm braces for low retention rate
Claims of longer hours and greater uncertainty hit magic circle giant
Junior lawyer who led march against £9k tuition fees when he was at Cambridge says it’s time to forgive the Lib Dems
Former SU president will be voting in line with majority of rookie lawyers surveyed in Legal Cheek General Election poll
Simpson Millar paralegal with endometriosis asks public to help fund her Oxford BCL course so she can become a barrister
‘There are not many people who make it to the bar as a disabled person’
The number of applications made to study law this year has increased more than any other course
Exclusive: Most university subjects reporting a drop
Legal aid in, tuition fees out: Labour’s leaked manifesto
Jeremy Corbyn promises the world
White & Case boosts London NQ pay packets by 17% to £105,000
Trainees will trouser an extra £2,000
More people want to date lawyers than any other profession
Two have been named most-wanted singles in London
Hogan Lovells trials new ‘continuous feedback’ system to assess lawyer performance
Global giant presses pause on lengthy annual reviews
Lord Sumption slams TWO of his fellow judges in strongly-worded contract law speech
And then goes on to confess his love for dictionaries
Law lecturers accuse SRA of ‘disingenuous reporting’ over super-exam consultation responses
But regulator says it's published everything it can
New court drama hoping to show viewers the ‘inner workings of the justice system’ will star real QCs and an ex-Old Bailey judge
The Trial: A Murder in the Family will air on Channel 4 later this month
History made: The number of law school applications from women is now over DOUBLE the number of applications from men
Exclusive: Female first years likely to outnumber men two to one
LSE tort exam includes question about ‘Nigel’ and ‘Donald’ drinking beer and crashing a plane into the River Thames
Exclusive: 'Boris' also gets knocked off his bike
CMS implements new ‘dress code guidance’ to help its suit-favouring lawyers blend in with more casual Olswang colleagues
The two firms merged with Nabarro last week
Law students are more likely to be psychopaths than their psychology-studying peers — but economics and business students are the ‘darkest’
The study looked at Machiavellianism and narcissism too