Category: News

Top social media barrister says screenshotting Snapchats is unlikely to be illegal

Christina Michalos pours scorn on “extremely misleading” tabloid analysis

Mar 29 2016 1:42pm

Jobless wannabe lawyer loses legal battle against her law school

Anna Alaburda has been unable to find a legal job after ten years of trying

Mar 29 2016 12:45pm

Research: One fifth of the world’s top law schools are in the UK

But Oxford and Cambridge miss out on the top spot

Mar 24 2016 9:05am

Junior barrister admits supplying drugs that killed teenage boyfriend at Temple party

Strand Chambers’ Henry Hendron will be sentenced on 3 May

Mar 23 2016 12:12pm

Hogan versus Gawker: Free speech can be costly

Gawker has been ordered to pay an astonishing $140 million in cumulative damages to the former US wrestling icon

Mar 23 2016 11:11am

Top EU law chambers ups pupillage award to £65,000 as Brexit vote looms

Monckton Chambers chucks an extra £5,000 at its junior legal talent

Mar 23 2016 9:19am

Aberdeen University law student found dead in her halls

The police are not treating her death as suspicious

Mar 22 2016 9:22am

Simmons & Simmons keeps seven out of nine new qualifiers

Firm declines to comment on how many trainees started this round's qualification process

Mar 21 2016 2:44pm

Sheffield bids to wrestle corporate law northshoring crown from Manchester

Council big wigs offer cash incentives to get a piece of the outsourcing action

Mar 21 2016 1:36pm

Supreme Court shatters law geeks’ wedding dreams

Highest court in the land opens its doors to private hire events -- but has no licence for couples to tie the knot

Mar 21 2016 1:01pm

Junior criminal lawyer pleads GUILTY to conspiracy to supply cocaine

Barrister turned solicitor Omar Khan was charged in December 2015 and spent Christmas behind bars

Mar 21 2016 10:04am

Coders create new portal for law centre in pro bono hackathon

System could boost efficiency in delivery of free advice

Mar 21 2016 9:32am

Judges’ Crown Court sentencing remarks to be filmed for first time

Pilot could see parts of high profile trials shown live on TV

Mar 21 2016 7:59am

‘Law student’ who claimed to be at BPP pleads guilty to Christmas Eve murder

Carl Langdell said he was doing GDL at BPP, but law school denies all knowledge of him

Mar 18 2016 11:09am

Freshfields posts 82% trainee retention rate rounding off mixed bag for magic circle

Elsewhere in the City, Reed Smith posts disappointing 58% result while Weil Gotshal & Manges scores perfect 100%

Mar 18 2016 10:51am

First ever City law firm business school trains up 250 junior lawyers to advise start-ups

Programme is part of wider corporate law drive to up-skill trainees

Mar 18 2016 10:00am