Category: News
Clifford Chance’s Aysh Chaudhry saga — a sad and salutary tale
Global mega firm caught between a rock and a hard place as fall-out from YouTube rant lingers
Morning round up: Friday 23 January
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Legal pic of the day
No beer today
Do you even lit bro?
This lawyer has torn up the law firm profile rule book -- presumably with his bare hands.
Dentons merges with China’s Dacheng to become the biggest law firm ever to grace the planet
London firm quiet on prospects for trainees in wake of China merger
‘My day on a plate’: law student edition
Coffee, Red Bull, crisps, lager ...
Morning round up: Thursday 22 January
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Legal pic of the day
Wig fail
University offers module in marijuana law
Legalisation of marijuana in Colorado set to spawn generation of weed lawyers
Bar Standards Board makes grovelling apology after being savaged by top judge
Professional body found to have withheld key evidence by Court of Appeal
The first City law firm trainee retention rate of 2015 has been released
Trowers & Hamlins' 82% figure bodes well, but it's early days yet
Morning round-up: Wednesday 21 January
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
London office of US firm launches unpaid vac scheme-lite for first year students
Weil Gotshal & Manges cites an “increasingly competitive environment” in move to target ever-younger students, who will be working for free
Legal pic of the day
Keys to the Inn
£1,750-a-head Magna Carta ‘summit’ hijacked by legal aid event that costs a tenner
With delegate fees at more than £1,700, don’t expect to see too many young lawyers brushing shoulders with the PM and BoJo at next month’s official Magna Carta celebrations. But there is an alternative…
Someone has done a poo on the floor of Westminster Magistrates Court
Solicitor’s tweet about excrement on floor of Westminster Magistrates Court leads to Vice interview
Inner Temple claims to have the best male talent
Debating society has rehashed Beach Boys track ‘California Girls’ to promote male hotties at the Inn
King’s College ditches plan to rebrand as ‘King’s London’
Was it wannabe solicitor's class action threat wot won it?
Legal pic of the day
The craziest small claim ever?
City law firm finally realises that trainees don’t know what ‘commercial awareness’ is
Hogan Lovells in bid to explain mythical concept to new recruits
Full 21 minute video: Clifford Chance trainee’s Charlie Hebdo rant has re-appeared on YouTube
Exclusive: Magic circle rookie issues apology as his controversial musings on Paris attacks re-emerge online