Category: News
Outrageous: Higher Education Stats Agency finds ‘social studies’ students paid more than law graduates
You know when you’ve been quango’d
Chilcot: UK’s toughest ever précis challenge — tweet by tweet
Lawyers among the leading contenders as tweeters attempted to condense 2.6 million words into 140 characters
Trowers & Hamlins reveals autumn retention rate of 79%
Seasonal fluctuations continue to affect national firm
High Court slaps litigant-in-person who bombarded Pinsent Masons lawyer with ‘more than 100 text messages’ with restraint order
Google litigant described as “obsessional and vexatious”
Top firms release their full year financial results and profits per equity partner continue to rise across the board
Gravy train continues on merry way but will Brexit prove to be a buffer?
London solicitors look to dual qualify as New York attorneys amid Brexit chaos
Leaving Europe could be bad news for status of English law
City lawyer at centre of Legal Cheek investigation quits profession over CV fabrications
Ex-McCarthy Tétrault "consultant" claimed, among other things, to have obtained an LLM from King’s College and a PHD from the University of Zurich
‘The day of the constitutional lawyer has come’ says Prof Dougan
Liverpool Uni law lecturer gives evidence to House of Commons Treasury Committee on all things Brexit
Magic circle embraces artificial intelligence
Clifford Chance latest outfit to embrace futuristic robot-style tech to improve speed, efficiency and quality
Lily Allen tweets about Farage & Co at a mysterious garden party
But did she over-step the mark in terms of privacy law?
Wannabe barrister creates ‘Brexiles’ website to help young people flee Britain
Oxford grad creates online resource tool in wake of historic referendum vote
Westminster prof named ‘Law Teacher of the Year 2016’
Lisa Webley scoops coveted prize, seeing off competition from the likes of Oxford, Leicester and Nottingham Trent
Legal dream team fights to make Brexit conditional on parliamentary backing
Big guns from Mishcon de Reya, Blackstone, Matrix and Monckton take aim at referendum decision
The next legal boom? India to open legal market to international law firms
Some welcome news amid Brexit chaos for London's megafirms
What Brexit? Herbert Smith Freehills boosts pay for newly qualified solicitors to £90,000
Trainee salaries also rise at London office of global giant
Shearman & Sterling retains all 13 of its qualifying trainees
Gold stars and pats on the back all round at big-paying US firm's London office
Fieldfisher kicks off Autumn retention season with perfect 100% result
Meanwhile City outfit CMS Cameron McKenna finally reveals disappointing spring figure of just 62%
Criminal barrister handed suspended sentence for stalking ex-lover
Conviction follows on from his lawyer wife being given a 12-month restraining order and curfew for her own campaign against husband’s ex-mistress
Crowd justice to the rescue
Top QC calls on the crowd in their wisdom to clear up constitutional chaos
Law lecturers reassure disheartened students that their EU law studies not in vain
Factortame is going nowhere
University of Law offers half price course fees for out-of-work LPC students
Wannabe lawyers will still receive a 50% rebate on LPC fees if they have failed to secure employment within nine months of graduating