Category: News

Addleshaw Goddard in talks to takeover HBJ Gateley

Combined firm could offer 40 training contracts

Nov 14 2016 8:40am

Revealed: which law firms have the best canteens

Who will come out on top in the ultimate food face-off?

Nov 14 2016 8:01am

‘Farter-F*ck’: Carter-Ruck gains crude copycat website after IT firm fallout

Sites creators claim they were “wrongfully persecuted” by media law giant

Nov 11 2016 10:37am

‘It’s a scratchy response’: Committee chair shares his views on MoJ’s court fees feedback

Bob Neill MP, justice committee chair, tells Legal Cheek that MPs will continue to push for full review

Nov 11 2016 8:57am

Bar Council backs Truss’s calls for ‘wider pool of talent’ for judicial selection

Even though this means more non-barristers becoming judges

Nov 10 2016 4:20pm

Fancy a three-course lunch with City firm partners? Fundraising challenge has some awesome prizes

Rallying call to wannabe lawyers as National Pro Bono Week draws to a close

Nov 10 2016 12:14pm

Berwin Leighton Paisner lifts post-Brexit referendum pay freeze

But it won’t backdate lawyer pay packets

Nov 9 2016 2:52pm

Supreme Court success for families involved in bedroom tax battle

Seven-judge bench upholds the claims of Jacqueline Carmichael and Paul and Susan Rutherford

Nov 9 2016 11:37am

High Court judges take legal action against Liz Truss over pension discrimination

Lord Chancellor’s week goes from bad to worse

Nov 9 2016 10:22am

Pinsent Masons creates Brexit-focused artificial intelligent software to help identify ‘risks’ to clients

Futuristic software has already been put to work on "a number of multi-billion dollar transactions"

Nov 9 2016 9:04am

DWF hangs on to just 62% of its newly qualifying lawyers

“This is certainly a lower number of trainees than we’d hoped to retain”, says firm

Nov 8 2016 11:56am

The law firms with the most approachable partners in Britain

They won't quite drop everything just to see you smile, but they're certainly very nice

Nov 8 2016 8:58am

Government confirms it WILL appeal to Supreme Court over Brexit ruling

Case to be heard in "early December"

Nov 7 2016 4:15pm

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