Category: News

Official Solicitor to the Senior Courts appears as litigant-in-person in private dispute

Exclusive: Alastair Pitblado and his fiancée in High Court today -- acting for themselves in £150k planning row

Apr 11 2016 9:07am

Half of Allen & Overy’s new London partners are women

Internationally the figure is 29%, as firm homes in on rather low gender diversity target

Apr 8 2016 12:53pm

Scammers clone Burges Salmon’s website to create fake law firm

Maybe avoid applying for a training contract with 'Owen & Harvey Solicitors'

Apr 8 2016 11:46am

Man behind criminal law syllabus shake up to face retrial for murder

An appeal by Ameen Jogee saw the law on joint enterprise drastically changed, but his fate still hangs in the balance

Apr 7 2016 4:07pm

Ashurst keeps 15 out of 19 qualifying trainees

79% of rookies stay with firm

Apr 7 2016 3:25pm

Med neg giant combines with ULaw to launch solicitor apprenticeship with law degree

New Fletchers programme modelled on law school's scheme with Mayer Brown

Apr 6 2016 1:52pm

Norton Rose Fulbright racks up strong newly-qualified solicitor retention rate of 96%

All bar one spring qualifier will remain at the global giant

Apr 6 2016 1:13pm

Leaked Mossack Fonseca document leaves London law firm exposed

Eminent private client outfit remains tightlipped over dealings with Azerbaijan president's daughters

Apr 6 2016 11:43am

Lancaster law student believed to have died fighting for ISIS

Khalif Shariff enrolled at the law school in 2014, but abandoned his LLB to flee to Syria

Apr 6 2016 10:48am

York law student claims antisemitism on the increase at UK universities

“I feel quite uncomfortable on campus, it’s quite intimidating”

Apr 6 2016 9:10am

The Law Society has just wasted £7 million on a failed business venture — here is what they could have spent it on

Independent review reveals a catalogue of errors led to conveyance software flop

Apr 5 2016 12:11pm

Missing Queen Mary law undergrad found dead in Slovenia

He had not been seen since February

Apr 5 2016 9:48am

65% of kids think lawyers are men

And they drew some delightful pictures to demonstrate this

Apr 5 2016 9:04am

Northern megafirm Hill Dickinson retains all six of its spring qualifiers

Liverpool-based outfit strikes perfect 100% trainee retention score

Apr 4 2016 2:44pm

Sidley Austin pays £100,000 each to seven Kirkland & Ellis associates as signing-on fee

City law juniors haul in Premier League footballer-level money

Apr 4 2016 9:31am