Category: News
Research: Over 70% of top judges and barristers are privately educated or Oxbridge
Little progress on social mobility at Bar for quarter of a century
Renegade lawyers at Slaughters and CMS lead campaign to get UK out of EU
Lawyers for Britain rallies support for Brexit crusade
Cash-strapped Oxford Brookes law student infected with Typhoid for £2,900
Wannabe barrister turns to medical trials for much needed financial boost
Students may have to fork out as much as £127k to chase barrister dream
Bar Council chair warns of escalating cost to enter profession
Criminal law firm Kaim Todner to close next month
And highly rated outfit seeks placement for its current trainee
Family lawyers feel the strain as number of care cases skyrocket
More and more care applications are being made, meaning more and more work for family lawyers
Will EU law even be a module on law degrees next year?
Heightened Brexit fears spark student uncertainty
Silk day: Boris takes Brexit break to celebrate wife’s QC appointment
Social media awash with full bottomed wigs and silver buckled shoes
Neuberger beats Hale in most-mentioned Supreme Court judge rankings
And Sumption comes third in analysis of newspaper articles citing top justices
Does The Sun’s links to ‘kufr’ lawyer’s firm make it ‘extremist’?
Being tainted by association has its limits
The tabloid newspaper reporting of the Supreme Court joint enterprise ruling is really, really bad
Misguided media riles lawyers
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
Oxbridge students shun regional law firms
Oxford and Cambridge graduates make up less than 5% of trainees outside London
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
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
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
Appeal judge who was cleared of flashing on packed commuter train retires at 65
Lord Justice Richards hangs up his robes
Macfarlanes continues bumper retention season posting perfect 100% spring score
All six Macfarlanes qualifiers have committed their future to the "silver circle" outfit
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
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