Category: News
York Uni law grad lands training contract through Twitter direct message
Why bother with application forms when you can DM the boss?
The Lawyers’ Revolt is spreading
Solicitors and barristers in London, Leeds and Manchester latest to join insurgency
Cambridge law student seeks to track down Pride barrister so he can make work experience plea
Bar hopeful is offering cake in return for information
Pride 2015: Profession pays tribute to ‘Legal Heroes’ who’ve championed LGBT rights
Lawyers contribute to carnival atmosphere at London Pride march buoyed by US Supreme Court backing of gay marriage
Law grad loses breach of contract case alleging Glasgow Caledonian Uni tuition not up to scratch
Former LLB student -- who refused to pay fees after claiming law lecturer was a "joker" -- sees overly ambitious case thrown out
Not Guilty: City University law student cleared of hit man murder of ex-boyfriend
Second year law student walks free from the Old Bailey after jury finds she was not complicit in murdering an ex that had threatened her with revenge porn
German bar association puts hands up to online hoax that went viral
Lawyers in The Fatherland confound stereotypes by producing a vaguely funny video about the perils of not seeking legal advice when divorcing
Leveson slams technophobe judges – and calls for credit card justice
Queen’s Bench Division guvnor calls on colleagues to give up on paper -- especially in complex fraud trials
Liverpool lawyers defy bar chiefs to launch criminal courts strike
Local barristers are refusing to take new instructions from beginning of July in fight against legal aid cuts
Criminal law juniors take another knock as Supreme Court green-lights QASA
Controversial advocacy assessment regime loses final judicial review hurdle today
Top white-collar crime QC entangled in online intern swap embarrassment
Lawyers are flocking to recently launched site in a bid to bag little Hugo and Henrietta pre-gap yah work experience. But is this just hi-tech nepotism?
Weil keeps pace with US rivals, offering jobs to all nine qualifying lawyers
Weil Gotshal & Manges announced today it will keep 100% of its spring and autumn 2015 NQs
Smooth-talking Gove charms lawyers over legal aid reforms and rule of law
Social media commentators almost fall in love with new Justice Secretary, primarily because he’s not Chris Grayling
Mini-pupil raises the bar with chocolatey chambers thank-you
Aspiring barrister delivers a chocolate and fruit-covered note in top culinary arse-licking gesture
Nabarro’s revenue rockets by 21%, but junior lawyer pay rises struggle at 3%
And trainees get a big fat zilch as London firm takes restrained view to remuneration at bottom of the pile
Ex-City solicitor in crosshairs over alleged VE Day demonstration vandalism
From the Square Mile to anti-capitalist campaigner in just three years
Latham & Watkins is latest US firm in London to trumpet high newly-qualified retention rate
Californians will keep 95% of current UK trainees
Twitter dismay over new justice committee chair’s defence of legal aid cuts
Former barrister Bob Neill unveiled as parliamentary justice committee chairman
Now work-experience-charging firm exposed for alleged plagiarism
London niche practice forced to pull training contract blurb from website after striking similarities with wording of City and national firms were uncovered
Top silk leads call for renegade criminal bar strike over legal aid cuts
Michael Mansfield QC lashes out at Criminal Bar Association decision to drop direct action plans
Breaking news: Shearman & Sterling retains all 13 of its London trainees
New Yorkers are first off the blocks for the “autumn” newly-qualified retention figures