Category: News
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
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
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
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
American Lord Denning found dead at luxury resort in Texas
Law students mourn loss of eccentric Supreme Court judge
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
UWE law student solicitor dream in balance after attacking pal in baby photo row
Aspiring lawyer lashed out at friend in Welsh hospital
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
Revealed: the areas of the country where trainee solicitors are paid the least
South West is best -- avoid the rest, apart from the City
Senior lawyers slam ‘entitled’ millennial training contract hopefuls
But they admit that corporate law is a different beast to when they were growing up
Sacked Chelsea FC-mad corporate solicitor who branded Liverpool fans ‘scouse scum’ lands new job at City law firm
Lawyer was fired late last year after foul-mouthed football rant that swept YouTube