Category: News
Junior barrister who admitted supplying drugs that killed teenage boyfriend sentenced to 140 hours unpaid work
Strand Chambers’ Henry Hendron avoids jail but uncertainty surrounds his future legal career
DWF launches apprenticeship that stops at paralegal level
Unlike some other law firm school-leaver schemes, course will not extend to qualification as a solicitor
Gove’s Bill of Rights is basically the same as the Human Rights Act, groans House of Lords
Government should shelve grand but pointless nationalist gesture
Top barrister slams ‘delicate Oxford flowers’ as uni’s law faculty gives ‘trigger warnings’ before lectures about violent cases
Students can leave if content is too distressing
Freshfields boosts newly qualified pay by over A QUARTER to £85,000
Firm goes to the top of the magic circle pay league
Student backlash as top Doughty Street barrister offers UNPAID three-month internship
Exclusive: Celeb barrister who works alongside Amal Clooney accused of “staggering hypocrisy” -- and his ad may be in breach of the rules
Oxford University REJECTS petition with 40,000 signatures calling for law student’s scholarship to be revoked
The university said his right to “free speech” would be compromised
The in-house option: Statistics reveal more jobs for lawyers in business
Law Society figures show growth potential for in-house careers
Research: A third of BPTC graduates secure pupillage
A hazy glimmer of hope for those chasing a career at the bar
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
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
Killer clause: How canny piece of wishful thinking netted Claudio Ranieri £6.7 million bonus
When drafting contracts: Always expect the unexpected
Silver circle law firm Ashurst boosts 12 to partner level
Four women among those promoted as global law firm chases 40% female partnership target
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
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
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
11KBW barrister returns to Oxford Graduate Students’ Dinner where she was groped by academic
Harini Iyengar speaks out 20 years later
Women partners: Eversheds smashes 25% gender diversity target as CMS and Norton Rose Fulbright eye 30%
The demographics of megafirms are changing
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
‘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
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