Category: News

Law firm with Netflix-inspired unlimited holiday allowance sees productivity increase

Most certainly not a way to guilt solicitors into taking less time off

Dec 7 2015 9:54am

Legal aid firm in London’s hipster hub puts City giants in shade to bag pro bono prize

Dalston pro bono clinic advised nearly 500 clients this year

Dec 4 2015 2:43pm

Weil Gotshal joins ‘100 Club’ with Christmas pay boost for junior lawyers

Exclusive: Newly qualified salaries at US giant hit the £100,000 mark

Dec 4 2015 11:32am

Two more City firms adopt Lord Neuberger-backed contextual graduate recruitment method

Withers and RPC the latest City firms to take into account economic background and personal circumstances of wannabe lawyers

Dec 4 2015 11:01am

Research: 74% of lawyers will push workplace boundaries at Christmas party

Snogging, sex and heavy boozing -- it's festive season for law firms

Dec 4 2015 9:22am

Law student charged with hacking into uni computer system to boost his marks

Aussie wannabe lawyer's alleged desperation for top grades could scupper career

Dec 3 2015 3:30pm

Gove scraps Grayling’s Criminal Courts Charge

Lord Chancellor's move gets thumbs-up from lawyers

Dec 3 2015 12:33pm

Judge Rinder speaks out against swingeing legal aid cuts

A lawyer that doesn’t like Grayling? Who'd have thought it?

Dec 3 2015 11:31am

Top Linklaters’ lawyer takes home £3.2 million a year — 76 times as much as trainee

Top earner at magic circle outfit sees 33% pay boost

Dec 3 2015 9:33am

Barrister fined £60 for using dead mother’s disabled blue badge to park outside court

Fraud specialist described it as a “moment of aberration”

Dec 2 2015 4:33pm

Supreme Court takes down Marks & Spencer in a momentous case set to impact LLB-ers

Sorry law students -- even more land law to learn

Dec 2 2015 2:39pm

Clyde & Co plans radical overhaul of diversity programme

City firm wants to shake off 'old boys club' reputation but Charlotte Proudman isn't convinced

Dec 2 2015 12:42pm

Judge allows pet cat to ’emotionally’ support defendant at court

Defendant's feline friend observed court proceedings from a shopping trolley

Dec 2 2015 11:29am

Much-maligned Bar Course Aptitude Test put on hold while regulator conducts review

The 2016 BCAT won't open til March at the earliest

Dec 2 2015 9:11am

REVEALED: The BPTC providers with the highest chance of pupillage

Northumbria is the worst; BPP London is the best -- but overall rate is poor

Dec 1 2015 1:55pm

Goldsmith Chambers barrister in tears after being found NOT GUILTY of perverting course of justice in cricket Twitter libel case

Andrew Fitch-Holland was accused of asking a witness to give false evidence

Dec 1 2015 11:41am

Yorkshire solicitor struck off after charging magic circle rates

£750-an-hour for executing a will

Dec 1 2015 10:58am

Exeter law graduate launches public appeal for job at busy London train station

Wannabe lawyer relies on street performer past in bid to kick-start law career

Dec 1 2015 9:30am

Science is harder than law, says Lord Neuberger

Head of Supreme Court reveals that he became a barrister after failing to cut it as a chemist

Nov 30 2015 1:51pm

‘UK’s top barrister’ forced to defend accusations of being ‘wholly incompetent’

Convicted murderer unhappy with Michael Wolkind QC, whose incredible website seems to have raised expectations

Nov 30 2015 12:05pm

HHJ Dodds has been dubbed ‘Britain’s rudest judge’

Former head of 15 Winckley Square seems to have been heavily influenced by Kevin the Teenager and Alan Partridge

Nov 30 2015 10:01am