Category: News

Flexi-working latest: Macfarlanes, Freshfields and White & Case join the ‘home-desking’ movement

But is the hot City trend of "agile working" simply a token gesture?

May 11 2016 11:35am

‘Delicate Oxford flower’ takes down top criminal barrister

Second year Oxford University law student details flaws in 30 years and counting barrister’s argument and signs off with a kiss

May 10 2016 12:38pm

All five magic circle law firms named in new ‘Panama Papers’ database

Top City firms named as a result of Mossack Fonseca leak and further investigations by press

May 10 2016 10:23am

GDL satisfaction survey results: Nottingham and City beat ULaw and BPP

Graduate Diploma in Law students are actually reasonably happy

May 10 2016 9:28am

We should dance ‘crotch to crotch’: UKIP barrister fined £1,800 for inappropriate behaviour towards THREE women at chambers summer party

Ex-Zenith Chambers barrister poked one female in the breast area of her chest and attempted to kiss another

May 9 2016 12:55pm

Junior barrister who admitted supplying drugs that killed teenage boyfriend sentenced to 140 hours unpaid work

Strand Chambers’ Henry Hendron avoids jail but uncertainty surrounds his future legal career

May 9 2016 11:30am

DWF launches apprenticeship that stops at paralegal level

Unlike some other law firm school-leaver schemes, course will not extend to qualification as a solicitor

May 9 2016 9:03am

Gove’s Bill of Rights is basically the same as the Human Rights Act, groans House of Lords

Government should shelve grand but pointless nationalist gesture

May 9 2016 7:55am

Freshfields boosts newly qualified pay by over A QUARTER to £85,000

Firm goes to the top of the magic circle pay league

May 6 2016 4:15pm

Student backlash as top Doughty Street barrister offers UNPAID three-month internship

Exclusive: Celeb barrister who works alongside Amal Clooney accused of “staggering hypocrisy” -- and his ad may be in breach of the rules

May 6 2016 9:15am

Oxford University REJECTS petition with 40,000 signatures calling for law student’s scholarship to be revoked

The university said his right to “free speech” would be compromised

May 5 2016 5:26pm

The in-house option: Statistics reveal more jobs for lawyers in business

Law Society figures show growth potential for in-house careers

May 5 2016 3:51pm

Research: A third of BPTC graduates secure pupillage

A hazy glimmer of hope for those chasing a career at the bar

May 5 2016 2:10pm

Global giant Dentons launches work from home option for its UK lawyers

From hot desking to home desking: 'Agile working' is officially the latest City trend

May 4 2016 2:59pm

Magic Circle outfit Slaughter and May raises junior lawyers pay packets by a slither over 2%

Trainee remuneration at elite law firm also upped by £1,500

May 4 2016 11:52am

Killer clause: How canny piece of wishful thinking netted Claudio Ranieri £6.7 million bonus

When drafting contracts: Always expect the unexpected

May 3 2016 5:19pm

Silver circle law firm Ashurst boosts 12 to partner level

Four women among those promoted as global law firm chases 40% female partnership target

May 3 2016 3:10pm

Petition to revoke Oxford law student’s scholarship racks up more than 20,000 signatures in 24 hours

Latest outburst from student behind the ‘Rhodes Must Fall in Oxford’ campaign saw young waitress reduced to tears

May 3 2016 12:48pm