Category: News
Solicitors Regulation Authority says sorry to Lord Harley for ‘causing distress’
"Harry Potter" lawyer receives written apology over lost file fiasco, but independent complaints body clears regulator of discrimination
Campaigners bid to block development plans that would ‘devastate’ Inner Temple library
Online petition launched, but so far signatures are sparse
BLP retains 71% of its trainees while Clifford Chance keeps 96%
Contrasting retention fortunes between mid-tier and aristocrats
Meek surrender or clever tactic? No one quite knows as lawyers suspend 52 day legal aid strike
Court boycott called off as "gesture of goodwill"
The Judge Rules: Accelerated courses — students need to beware
How much sympathy should we feel for the seven students whose firms dropped training contract offers after they failed BPP’s speedy-LPC?
Solicitor struck off after fiddling train fares to pay LPC debts
Tribunal accepted young lawyer was under huge post-education financial pressure -- but fraud is fraud
City firms fall over themselves to trumpet benefits of working one day-a-week from home
'Agile working' is the latest corporate law trend
Personal injury solicitor storms off football pitch to head-butt supporter
Regulator to investigate lawyer’s park footie behaviour after he pleaded guilty to GBH
Pictures emerge of proposed Lincoln’s Inn ‘education bunker’
But no official comment on price tag or suggestions that inns are getting back into vocational training game
Solicitors’ profession keeps growing like Topsy — up 18% over five years
But with training contracts gradually evaporating and government reforms of legal aid system kicking in, could the party be over?
Mayer Brown reveals 55% autumn newly qualified lawyer retention rate
Global giant will keep six of its 11 September qualifying cohort, with a further lawyer remaining on temporary contract
Aspiring barrister and ex-Herbert Smith Freehills paralegal killed in family home
The 31-year-old woman was found dead at a property in northwest London at the end of last week
University of Law extends money back guarantee to out-of-work GDL students
Fee rebate scheme could see ULaw paying out more to students who fail to bag jobs after graduating
Law student was Briton killed in Bangkok terror attack
Vivian Chan was doing a law degree at BPP University in London
BPP big wigs silent as failed students are reported sacked from training contracts
Accelerated course disaster for seven wannabes -- but law school won’t comment
Bar students are getting even worse at ethics, official report shows
If four-year trend continues, more than half of those on the BPTC are likely to fail ethics module at first go next year
Tribunal slaps young solicitor, 30, for faking orthopaedic expert reports
Junior is hit with an indefinite suspension and a £10,000 costs order into the bargain
Oxford University law student jailed for punching woman in nightclub
A 20 year-old Oxford law student gets nine-months' porridge after conviction for “sustained assault” on a young woman that left her with a broken nose
Freshfields posts 83% newly qualified lawyer retention rate
Anglo-German magic circle giant makes 43 offers -- and is snubbed by three new lawyers
Sullivan & Cromwell shoots to top of UK pay league with record £101,500 newly-qualified solicitor salary
Exclusive: London office of New York firm is now highest paying in City
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