Category: News

Twitter’s top lawyer sees £10 million wiped off value of her shares

Tough times for one of world's richest general counsel

Oct 8 2015 1:48pm

Clyde & Co’s trainee retention rate plunges from 98% to 76%

Firm which has grown rapidly through mergers retains fewer trainees than in 2011

Oct 8 2015 12:02pm

Allen & Overy moves forward training contract deadline to New Year’s Eve in bid to bag top students

Taylor Wessing also has a new earlier deadline as old graduate recruitment code is ditched

Oct 7 2015 5:50pm

Students handed £2.5k for each year of their law degree by City firm in socio-economic diversity push

CMS Cameron McKenna scheme one of the first to assist undergrads

Oct 7 2015 3:44pm

Law student wins landmark privacy case against Facebook and is congratulated by Edward Snowden

Vienna University's Max Schrems has created a piece of EU law in his spare time

Oct 7 2015 10:53am

Chambers Most List 2016: More money flows to the expanding Oxbridge elite

79% of rookie barristers at the top 50 chambers went to Oxford or Cambridge

Oct 7 2015 10:01am

What, no lawyers on this year’s The Apprentice!?

Lawyer-loathing Lord Sugar snubs legal sector as new contestants are revealed

Oct 6 2015 1:55pm

Bar chief says young barristers ‘unable to fulfil potential’ as law reporters launch scholarship for skint pupils

Law reporting charity chips in with some cash for legal aid rookies

Oct 6 2015 11:24am

New plastic bag legislation is a triumph of pedantic drafting

The Single Use Carrier Bags Charges (England) Order 2015 deserves wider recognition

Oct 5 2015 5:26pm

Solicitor tricked into transferring £734k of client money to phone-scammers

Internet banking scam hits legal profession

Oct 5 2015 9:10am

Clifford Chance takes on Uber with drivers ‘defecating in gardens’ attack

Cabbies pool resources to hire magic circle giant

Oct 2 2015 4:02pm

Is Charlotte Proudman about to sue the tabloids?

Labelling me a 'Feminazi' is defamatory, claims barrister-turned-gender commentator

Oct 2 2015 9:15am

‘Are you sure I don’t look silly?’ Attorney General’s Twitter jitters over full-bottomed wig pic

Jeremy Wright QC deletes photo -- then, after seemingly recovering composure, re-posts it

Oct 1 2015 1:28pm

Friends of Freshfields lawyer shot dead in Berlin are crowdfunding to help his family

Legal and other costs facing popular ex-solicitor's parents could hit £20,000

Sep 30 2015 3:20pm

Top QC who didn’t pay tax for 12 years is struck off

Commercial silk Rohan Pershad QC was "extremely poor at paperwork"

Sep 30 2015 11:12am

‘Cambridge-educated Weil Gotshal trainee’ flogs training contract advice for £45 an hour

When you're on £97k a year, is this really necessary?

Sep 30 2015 9:58am

Lawyers back magistrate suspended for paying asylum seeker’s court charge

Axe this "laughably unfair" charge, urge members of legal profession

Sep 29 2015 12:28pm

Inner Temple awards top scholarship to bencher’s daughter

Exclusive: £22,000 BPTC prize goes to student with very close family connection to Inn

Sep 29 2015 9:55am