Category: News
Pinsent Masons retains 79% of qualifying trainees
Latest City firm to put qualifying young bloods out of their misery is keeping 15 of its spring 2015 round
Revealed: How law schools’ websites looked at the dawn of the millennium
Throwback Thursday: A journey back in time through the World Wide Web -- law school edition
Strathclyde, Huddersfield, Greenwich and BPP are best unis for pro bono
Attorney General Student Pro Bono Awards 2015 winners announced
Striking again — court defeat over legal aid cuts could see barristers back on picket line
Court backs government plans for massive cuts in number of legal aid law firms, reigniting fears that law students wanting a career in crime will have to rob banks
Exeter Uni students boss this year’s Clifford Chance ‘CV Blind’ competition
Students from Russell Group institution net 20% of vac scheme places awarded through scheme, but overall winner is from LSE
Wig for sale on the cheap: one witchdoctor former owner
Freshly-called lawyers could save a few quid by picking up second hand horsehair that a bogus witchdoctor is flogging after £1 million swindling spree
Disgraced Gibson Dunn partner teaches lawyers a valuable lesson — play straight with the court
The story of the high-flying Dubai-based English solicitor, a Djibouti millionaire, a terror attack and some phone calls provides a salutary tale for law students
A lawyer is backing a terrifying law to enforce public execution of gay people
Quirks in California’s referendum system have allowed the promotion of a dangerously homophobic bill, as local politicians call for lawyer proponent to be struck off
Leveson’s advice to wannabe advocates: stop bleating on about the blindingly obvious
On the eve of judging the Bar’s annual mock trial competition the President of the Queen’s Bench Division speaks exclusively to Legal Cheek
Phone hacking lawyer could ban Southampton student trainees if ‘anti-Semitic’ conference goes ahead
Mark Lewis brings wannabe lawyers into a row that has nothing to do with them
Queens University Belfast students take law soc election campaign to next level with Beyonce-inspired ad
All for the price of a bottle of vodka
Social media prankster tries to start rave in law library
Students at Sydney University law library are so busy they hardly notice the jape
Research: Two thirds of lawyers say the job has failed to live up to expectations
After the battle to secure training contracts and pupillages, anti-climax often awaits
Celestial gods snub legal London – City lawyers miss out on eclipse fun
Eclipse? What eclipse? That was the disappointed chorus from the heart of the legal profession planet; but Faroese lawyers were laughing
Lawyer fleeced for best part of €250,000 from client account in a scam as old as (Nigerian) hills
Irish high court stops short of striking off Dublin solicitor because he was depressed -- and paid the cash back
The Judge Rules: Law firm websites – bring back the good old simpler days
Modern cyber marketing is flashing, but it lacks the individualistic charm of the earlier generation
Queen Mary students are the most commercially aware wannabe lawyers in Britain
London uni wins corporate law version of University Challenge
Clifford Chance’s website and the tale of the mysterious asterisk
There’s a little secret about the magic circle firm’s law firm of the year boast. Read on …
Lawyer becomes good news internet sensation after leaving $25k tip for tooth decay waiter
US personal injury lawyer strikes marketing gold
New breed press body throws out Lord Harley complaints
Newspaper watchdog rules that two Fleet Street tabloids and a regional publication did not breach code of practice in reporting on the elaborate claims of one of the country's most renowned advocates
Revealed: How big law firms’ websites looked in the 90s
Throwback Thursday: A journey back in time through the World Wide Web