Category: News
2015 retention rates highest since financial crisis, with 1,922 out of 2,376 trainees kept on
US firms' London offices did the best
People are freaking out about plans to replace law degrees and the LPC with a solicitor super-exam open to non-graduates
Epic centralised test that would change everything planned for 2018
The legal profession has just set a trainee solicitor minimum wage that is higher than the one it scrapped — but it’s unenforceable
New recommended minimum wage for trainee solicitors is £20,276 in London and £18,183 elsewhere
Bristol Uni law faculty could be next in global student campaign to erase links with slavery
Movement to change Harvard Law School logo expected to highlight Bristol Law School slave labour ties
Top human rights chambers launches paid mini-pupillage with ‘good enough for the bar’ test for disadvantaged students
Exclusive: One Crown Office Row's new scheme seeks to widens pupillage interview pool
LPC student goes public to reveal anger after ULaw lose her exam paper
Unmarked exam sat in tutor’s pigeon hole for three weeks before part of it was accidentally thrown out
Legal market expert predicts that Big Four accountancy giants will challenge top law firms
The legal teams being assembled by bean-counter megafirms could shake-up the law
The ‘scouse scum’ YouTube rant lawyer has been fired — also via YouTube
Chelsea FC-mad Clive O’Connell ejected from global law firm partnership
Charlotte Proudman launches new assault on judiciary while revealing very personal glimpses into her life in the media spotlight
Barrister interlaces shocking new allegations with fascinating insights into the woman behind the headlines
Illustrator turns iTunes’ terms & conditions into comic book art
Legalease has never looked so good
Award law scholarships on need rather than merit, urges Lady Justice Hallett
Otherwise legal profession will contain only children of the rich
Katie Hopkins is trying to set up ‘The Society for White Lawyers’
Move comes after CPS drop case against her following Society of Black Lawyers referral
Solicitors Regulation Authority publishes its allegations against Lord Harley of Counsel
Colourful solicitor-advocate's titles questioned by the regulator
‘If you can, stick at it’: Jeremy Corbyn tells students to reject commercial law and pursue legal aid dreams
Labour leader pledges to restore justice funding if elected
Liverpool Uni law student pledges to use £44,000 lottery win to fund barrister dream
First year has her law school fund sorted
The 8 best moments from the Lord Harley hearing liveblog
What purports to be a blow-by-blow account of solicitor-advocate's first day before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal appears online
Fish & chip shop owner who refused to accept parking fine changes contract law
Barry Beavis' honourable Supreme Court defeat today will impact university syllabuses
Big Four accountancy giant EY launches law training contract — and you don’t need a 2:1 or top A-levels to apply
Applicants to be selected via online tests
The great Mansfield Chambers exodus: 50% of barristers quit the set
Exclusive: Half of the members of Michael Mansfield QC's set have just left
Two already huge London megalaw firms are set to get even bigger
Dentons and Eversheds seek to reach Coca-Cola and Pepsi levels of ubiquity
Supreme Court judge predicts that a flurry of women will follow Lady Hale into top court over next five years
With nine places on highest bench shortly up for grabs, expect a shake-up