Category: News
UWE law grad is the fourth ‘coolest’ person in FinTech right now
Budding entrepreneur secured £200,000 in funding to produce student finance app
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
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
Legal professor LOSES judicial review challenging cancellation of controversial Southampton Law School conference
High Court judge rules that academic freedom was not at stake
Research: UK’s WORST law schools for ’employability’
How did your law school fare?
Amal Clooney takes aim at Donald Trump in revealing BBC interview
And also gives four top tips for legal success
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
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
Nearly half of Irwin Mitchell’s new partners are women
Includes two who did their training contracts at the national firm
Employment judge calls for new legislation to tackle ‘fattism’ in the workplace
But lawyers aren't convinced
Top barrister says NUS’s no-platform policies could be unlawful
Student petitions to ban university campus talks not compatible with free speech law
Emotional triumph for Northern Irish state school in Bar National Mock Trial at the Old Bailey
Citizenship Foundation competition now in its 25th year, and is still fierce in its combat against the bar’s social mobility problem
Number of training contracts registered jumps by nearly 500 in a year
Law students welcome first major increase since financial crash
Kim is here. Are you?
As virtual paralegals start work, how long before others stop?
‘Divisive’ 3% pay boost for senior judges rejected by government watchdog
But how do our top judges' pay packets measure up against those of City lawyers?
DWF’s bid to clawback LPC fees from ex-trainee could be unenforceable restraint of trade
Questions arise over legal status of firm's lock-in clause
‘You can be a right glamour puss’: Solicitor fined £5,000 for ‘inappropriate’ texts to vulnerable client
He claimed he was just trying to be supportive
Rich parents blocked from buying kids legal work experience as magic circle firms withdraw from charity auction
Allen & Overy and Freshfields in significant U-turn
A pupil barrister did a PhD about social mobility at the bar — and it makes for uncomfortable reading
Elite reputation puts off potential future stars -- especially those who live outside the South East
Clifford Chance and Slaughter and May will NOT offer legal apprenticeships
Government-led Trailblazer scheme is not so magic, say elite City duo
Herbert Smith Freehills pips Clifford Chance to the post in its latest partner promotions as firms strive for 30% female partners
Latest partnership promotions represent some improvement on gender diversity