Category: News
Co-op training contract freeze continues despite expansion
Hype of "100 training contracts a year by 2017" a distant memory
Top criminal chambers boosts pupillage award from £16k to £40k
London set bucks downward pay trend
Daily Mail hate against lawyers reaches unprecedented levels
National newspaper enraged by solicitors “hounding” of British troops
Labour’s top lawyer quits citing ‘increasingly negative path’ under Jeremy Corbyn
Shadow attorney general Catherine McKinnell has resigned -- Karl Turner replaces her
Just 23% of new QCs are women — but Boris’ wife is one of them
Ethnic minorities also under-represented as -- surprise, surprise -- white men dominate silk appointments
BPP law student charged with murder appears in court — but does not enter plea
GDL student's next hearing scheduled for March
Number of students studying undergraduate law degrees has risen by 28% since 2007
LLBs are booming -- and increasingly dominated by women
Social mobility charity’s ‘Model Law Commission’ gets students thinking about what being a lawyer actually means
Big Voice London aims to bring people who see the world differently into the profession
Junior barrister appears in court over supplying drugs in heart of legal London
Strand Chambers’ Henry Hendron was arrested earlier this year after boyfriend died of drug overdose at his Temple flat
Robots aren’t such a big threat to lawyers, say top academics
Predictions of solicitors and barristers' imminent demise are premature
Junior barrister, 33, made a Crown Court judge
Anna Midgley is the youngest recorder in recent history
Nabarro improves on disappointing autumn retention result to reveal 89% spring figure
London firm confirms eight out of nine qualifying trainees will stay
Freshfields graduate recruitment website goes offline for ‘scheduled maintenance’ on firm’s TC application deadline day
Magic circle firm extends yesterday's deadline to 3pm today
Legal aid is a ‘basic human right’ not an ‘economic benefit’, says Jeremy Corbyn
Lawyers lap up Jezza
Male criminal hacks make way for female commercial barristers as Bar Council unveils new chiefs
All change in bar top doggery for 2016
Iraq abuse inquiry firm comes out swinging against Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal referral
Leigh Day says challenges against MoD are an important check and balance
Law student launches his own ‘law practice’ — and charges himself out at £25 an hour
Entrepreneurial rookie bids to fill legal aid gap and earn cash
People actually watch the UK Supreme Court TV channel
Neuberger, Hale, Sumption and the rest of the gang pull in the views
Slaughter and May keeps 38 out of 40 qualifying trainees in first retention announcement of 2016
Magic circler hangs on to 95% of its rookies
Floods force closure of three Magistrates Courts
Nature disrupts justice