Category: News

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

Clifford Chance seeks Chinese megafirm merger in bid for global domination

Firm declines to comment about reports that it wants to ascend beyond the magic circle

May 3 2016 11:59am

Revenge porn clinic and dementia law Skype sessions among winners of Attorney General pro bono awards

Student-run law firm and Scotland-Miami exchange also scoop prizes

May 2 2016 9:03pm

Liberty mocks UK Snoopers’ Charter in candid camera campaign film

Human rights charity documents people's reactions to comedian demanding to look through their mobile phones

Apr 29 2016 9:26am

‘Lawyer of the week’ confesses missing the most extraordinary moment of her legal career because she skipped a court day

The Supreme Court made legal history last month -- shame the lawyer behind the case wasn’t in court to see it

Apr 28 2016 3:21pm

Legal commentator voices concerns over challenges facing university innocence projects in damning new article

The odds are stacked against law students investigating potential miscarriages of justice

Apr 28 2016 2:10pm

UWE law grad is the fourth ‘coolest’ person in FinTech right now

Budding entrepreneur secured £200,000 in funding to produce student finance app

Apr 28 2016 12:12pm

Social mobility work experience scheme pledges to stay closer to students as chair passes from Allen & Overy to Hogan Lovells

PRIME seeks to move to next level after giving 4,000 kids City law placements in five years

Apr 28 2016 10:31am

Lord Harley’s claim for ‘interim relief’ against Law Society struck out by High Court

"Harry Potter" lawyer was seeking to restrain the release of six closed files under a freedom of information request

Apr 27 2016 5:43pm

Research: UK’s WORST law schools for ’employability’

How did your law school fare?

Apr 27 2016 1:17pm

Amal Clooney takes aim at Donald Trump in revealing BBC interview

And also gives four top tips for legal success

Apr 27 2016 11:40am

Match of The Day host calls for divorce lawyers to be replaced by mathematical formula

Not so much taken out of the equation as taken out by the equation

Apr 26 2016 6:09pm

Ex-Squire Patton Boggs associate reveals ‘blatant’ gender discrimination and sexual harassment in explosive Reddit Q&A

Female lawyer at global giant’s Qatar office missed her own grandmother's funeral due to work demands

Apr 26 2016 5:07pm