Category: News

Bar Council insists London will remain a global litigation centre as City law firms go into overdrive advising shaken clients

UK legal sector displays a stiff upper lip in wake of historic EU referendum result

Jun 24 2016 1:04pm

Exclusive: Law Society to launch review of ‘official photographer’ amid retouched grad photos storm

Success Photography will digitally enhance graduands’ photos so they look slimmer, their skin clearer and their teeth whiter

Jun 24 2016 10:23am

Lawyers assure upset Bremainers that Vote Leave victory is NOT legally binding

That doesn’t mean they’re happy about the result

Jun 24 2016 9:46am

Hill Dickinson reserves training contracts for paralegals

Two out of 12 TCs will go to graduates already employed by national giant

Jun 23 2016 3:14pm

Vote Leave paralegal targeted by Remain campaigners

Law grad on £16,500 a year who feels he’s “at the back of the queue” for jobs sparks social media storm

Jun 23 2016 1:01pm

Karaoke Court is actually a thing

The brains behind the legally binding sing-offs found his inspiration in an undergrad jurisprudence lecture

Jun 22 2016 4:29pm

Simmons & Simmons ditches MBA for future trainees

Bespoke legal masters introduced in 2009 to be replaced by new "Trainee Skills Academy"

Jun 22 2016 11:31am

BSB mulls new ‘super bar exam’ that could allow non-graduates to become barristers

Bar regulator to host debate next month discussing three new proposed routes to qualification

Jun 21 2016 2:15pm

Average senior in-house lawyer now takes home over £165,000

5% pay-packet increase for City law firm shunners

Jun 21 2016 1:25pm

Judge fired for watching porn in chambers LOSES unfair dismissal claim

Warren Grant had argued his behaviour stemmed from a mental illness he was suffering due to marriage problems

Jun 21 2016 11:13am

Visually-impaired Essex Uni law student stunned after taxi driver demanded guide dog travel in the boot

Aspiring lawyer is now a backing a charity-led campaign to bolster discrimination laws

Jun 21 2016 8:57am

Chelsy Davy speaks for the first time about quitting Allen & Overy

The lure of starting her own business was too strong

Jun 20 2016 2:19pm

Allen & Overy ups London-based US NQ lawyer pay packets to £124,000

MoneyLaw reaches the City's magic circle

Jun 20 2016 12:33pm

Would Brexit even be legal?

Top lawyers round on Gove and co’s “illegal” vote leave strategy

Jun 20 2016 10:22am

Lord Neuberger’s ‘plea’ for a university law syllabus shake up

“Greater prominence for ethics” proposals get the thumbs up from professors

Jun 17 2016 2:01pm

Magic circle lawyers register in Ireland ahead of EU referendum

With the EU referendum less than a week away, City outfits quietly ready themselves for possible exit

Jun 17 2016 11:53am

Aspiring barristers anger as Pupillage Gateway glitch means applications are missing GDL and BPTC grades

Exclusive: Gateway's copy-and-paste feature reproduces everything BUT vital grades on pupillage applications

Jun 17 2016 9:01am

Court of Appeal brands Judge Peter Smith’s incredible Blackstone Chambers letter ‘disgraceful’

CoA orders retrial in Harb v HRH Prince Abdul Aziz Bin Fahd, but clears controversial judge of bias

Jun 16 2016 1:17pm

The Met rejects calls to investigate ‘Waterloo sex QC’ — for now

As Graeme Stening accepts a caution for outraging public decency, talk turns to his anonymous female companion and whether she should be investigated for perverting the course of justice

Jun 16 2016 12:55pm

US outfit Cadwalader ups London NQ pay to coveted £124,000 level

New York stalwart is the latest firm to jump aboard the "MoneyLaw" bandwagon

Jun 16 2016 10:45am