Category: News

Misguided media riles lawyers

QCs of the future could come from under privileged families outside London, and the Bar Council wants to boost odds of finding them

Oxford and Cambridge graduates make up less than 5% of trainees outside London

Chris Grayling's changes to rules on domestic abuse sufferers getting legal aid don't stand up to scrutiny

Felicity Gerry QC and Adam Wagner victorious as court changes the law

Single-office City firm chucks an extra £5,000 at its newly qualified lawyers

Lord Justice Richards hangs up his robes

All six Macfarlanes qualifiers have committed their future to the "silver circle" outfit

Merger mania: Olswang eyeing up Bird & Bird and Simmons & Simmons, meanwhile Berwin Leighton Paisner and Greenberg Traurig in talks

#Lawkward

Legal establishment comes out against plan to scrap LPC and open firms to non-graduates

Seven out of seven March qualifiers have committed their future to the international firm

Human rights solicitor defends Michael Gove's legal levy idea

Peers say scrap tradition in favour of £80,000 a year savings

Law students mourn loss of eccentric Supreme Court judge

Footage from 1997 shows London lawyer speaking at extremist group rally in Trafalgar Square

Aspiring lawyer lashed out at friend in Welsh hospital

Two-thirds of PRIME students had no further contact with their allocated firm

South West is best -- avoid the rest, apart from the City

But they admit that corporate law is a different beast to when they were growing up

Lawyer was fired late last year after foul-mouthed football rant that swept YouTube