Category: News

Does The Sun’s links to ‘kufr’ lawyer’s firm make it ‘extremist’?

Being tainted by association has its limits

Feb 19 2016 2:29pm

Social mobility initiative goes north as Bar Placement Week makes Liverpool debut

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

Feb 19 2016 10:02am

Oxbridge students shun regional law firms

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

Feb 19 2016 9:12am

Regulation that plagued family lawyers declared ‘invalid’ by Court of Appeal

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

Feb 18 2016 2:48pm

Criminal law syllabuses to get makeover as Supreme Court gives landmark joint enterprise judgment

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

Feb 18 2016 12:02pm

Silver circle takes on the magic circle as Macfarlanes boosts junior lawyer pay to £70,000

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

Feb 18 2016 8:51am

Macfarlanes continues bumper retention season posting perfect 100% spring score

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

Feb 17 2016 12:23pm

Addleshaw Goddard and Maclay Murray & Spens cease merger talks

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

Feb 17 2016 10:46am

Solicitor super-exam could ‘devalue’ and ‘dumb down’ the law

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

Feb 16 2016 3:49pm

Impressive spring retention season continues as Osborne Clarke keeps on all its trainees

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

Feb 16 2016 1:04pm

Tax City lawyers to help the legal aid crisis, says founder of top legal aid firm

Human rights solicitor defends Michael Gove's legal levy idea

Feb 16 2016 11:53am

1,000-year-old tradition of recording laws on goat and calf skin hangs in balance

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

Feb 16 2016 9:21am

American Lord Denning found dead at luxury resort in Texas

Law students mourn loss of eccentric Supreme Court judge

Feb 15 2016 3:26pm

Simons, Muirhead & Burton partner embarrassed as ‘kufr’ video surfaces on YouTube

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

Feb 15 2016 1:00pm

UWE law student solicitor dream in balance after attacking pal in baby photo row

Aspiring lawyer lashed out at friend in Welsh hospital

Feb 15 2016 10:27am

Top City law firms criticised for failing to stay in touch with social mobility work experience students

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

Feb 12 2016 3:56pm

Revealed: the areas of the country where trainee solicitors are paid the least

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

Feb 12 2016 12:10pm

Senior lawyers slam ‘entitled’ millennial training contract hopefuls

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

Feb 12 2016 9:04am