Category: News
Scrap BPTC in favour of two year pupillage, urges bar chief
Top crime QC says bar course only benefits law schools and London's landlords
Nottingham Trent law student jailed for naked photos Snapchat blackmail
First year's legal career hopes hanging by a thread
Lord Neuberger: Top judges should visit non-traditional unis and encourage students to apply for training contracts
Exclusive: Head of Supreme Court wants to see judiciary out on campus but is against imposing diversity quotas
Pro-Human Rights Act posters appear all over the Tube after barristers raise £50k to ‘Act for the Act’
Lawyers are getting the hang of crowdfunding
Wannabe barrister wins £20k damages from his uni over false ‘criminal behaviour’ claim
Damages obtained by Geoffrey Robertson QC working pro bono should cover the cost of the BPTC nicely
DLA Piper silent on rumours that partner who described women as ‘gash’ is under investigation by the SRA
Firm's refusal to comment on matter gives credence to gossip
Key litigant in person charity sees incredible 900% rise in clients helped
Personal Support Unit assisted 5,000 clients in 2008 -- now number is a terrifying 50,000
18% of lawyers would quit their job to go on The Apprentice
Figure is down from 25% in 2011
The best advocates are ‘simply born that way’, claims ex-Court of Appeal judge on his new blog
Third rate barristers can become second rate -- but not great, says Sir Henry Brooke
Hogan Lovells denies joining movement to allocate work blindly to junior lawyers
But the firm has made contact with the guru attempting to revolutionise working patterns at rivals
Suing your 12 year-old nephew theoretically possible in England — but no lawyer would take case on
US aunt v nephew birthday hug case would require a litigant-in-person on these shores … or an English Saul Goodman
A major law firm has been dramatically shut down by the Solicitors Regulation Authority
Move comes after Legal Aid Agency referred Blavo & Co to the police
No more 85ft Helter Skelter rides: Law firm with coolest office in Britain moves on
Sheffield IP solicitors bid farewell to office with three storey high spiral slide
The Charlotte Proudman generation backs quotas, but Lord Justice Leveson says they are ‘demeaning’
Top judge wades into gender diversity row
TV barrister Judge Rinder urges ‘serious’ law students to lighten up in order to succeed
Celeb lawyer claims aspiring solicitors and barristers are better off watching his show than attending boring law lectures
The law from 1835 that bans ‘hoverboards’
Police tweet reminder of section 72 of the Highway Act 1835 amid rise of new craze
Over 340 lawyers and former judges blast UK refugee policy in full-page newspaper ad
Top lawyers use The Times to lambast government over "deeply inadequate" Syrian refugee policy
Computer glitch tells London BPP students they’ll have to go to Manchester to graduate
But law school's boss pledges there'll be space at ceremonies in the capital
Full transcript: Incredible Peter Andre High Court judgment lifts lid on mad world of reality TV
Mr Justice Flaux's ruling is a must-read for fans of celeb gossip
Goldsmith Chambers barrister accused of perverting the course of justice in cricket Twitter libel case
Andrew Fitch-Holland, who is alleged to have asked a witness to give false evidence, denies charge
Nottingham Law School has turned into a ‘teaching law firm’ that will be staffed by students
Don't worry, they'll be supervised