Category: News

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

Barrister who posted anti-Semitic tweets booted out of profession

Social media posts referenced Jews, pro-Zionists, Muslims and chavs

Oct 28 2016 1:07pm

Twitter goes quiet as BBC reports ‘categorically denied’ allegation against top QC

Usually chatty legal Twitterati eerily silent

Oct 28 2016 11:43am

Baker & McKenzie gives Belfast-based training contracts the green light

International giant will take on its first trainees next September

Oct 27 2016 1:10pm

Lawyers react to ‘deeply concerning’ draft law that would keep alleged rapists in the dark about who accused them

One said this nonsense wasn’t doing his blood pressure any good

Oct 27 2016 11:10am