Category: News

City law firms bid to get in early with fintechs by offering them free legal advice

Could these start-ups be the banks of the future?

Nov 7 2016 3:05pm

BPTC and pupillage could be rolled into one under new proposals

New route to qualification "needs to be more flexible and affordable", BSB tells Legal Cheek

Nov 7 2016 12:40pm

Top Freshfields lawyer clocks up the miles using special treadmill desk

"I get good reports from my cardiologist"

Nov 7 2016 10:35am

The reaction to the Brexit legal challenge judgment has been crazy

Tension between lawyers and tabloids reaches fever pitch

Nov 4 2016 10:59am

Country’s most followed law student publicly slams the LPC

Saffron Sheriff thinks it “really isn't living up to its price tag”

Nov 4 2016 9:15am

K&L Gates bumps London-based junior lawyer salaries to £71,000

Trainees at the US headquartered outfit also handed fresh pay rises

Nov 3 2016 11:45am

Brexit legal challenge: Claimants victorious in most important constitutional law case for a generation

Leapfrog appeal hangs in the balance as judges put significant roadblock in Article 50's way

Nov 3 2016 10:33am

The law firms with the best social life

It's not all work and no play

Nov 3 2016 9:09am

BPP launches advocacy competition to give wannabe BPTC students a taste of life at the bar

Those who impress could receive a barrister training scholarship

Nov 2 2016 9:49am

Supreme Court to hear ‘landmark’ abortion case today

Legal dream team assembled to argue Northern Irish women’s right to travel to England for free terminations

Nov 2 2016 8:57am

Baker & McKenzie becomes latest City outfit to embrace flexi-working movement

But does the latest law firm trend really help stressed out lawyers?

Nov 1 2016 1:27pm

King & Wood Mallesons departures continue as rumours regarding firm’s financial status persist

A look at the turbulence shaking the international giant

Nov 1 2016 11:43am

Top law firm partner who handed associate lover £550,000 chunk of client’s estate struck off

Ex-Penningtons Manches lawyer accepted his independence had become compromised

Nov 1 2016 11:06am

Jogee: Court of Appeal refuses to grant leave to appeal in swathe of joint enterprise cases

Mixed reaction from lawyers as 13 convictees’ applications dismissed

Oct 31 2016 1:43pm

Bar Council switches pupillage offer day after date clash blunder

Bar hopeful D-day now 3 May 2017

Oct 31 2016 1:10pm

Richard Susskind’s ‘biggest worry’ is the way law schools teach their students

Graduates “ill-prepared” for everyday legal work, says top futurologist

Oct 31 2016 11:56am

Prince Harry rumoured to be dating actress who plays a paralegal in Suits

Royal's fascination with lawyers continues

Oct 31 2016 9:57am