Category: News

Number of bad-boy barristers drops as disbarments tumbled last year

Regulator’s annual figures show complaints rise, but 31% fewer lawyers were given red cards

Aug 6 2015 4:06pm

Fact check: Oxbridge-obsessed chambers claims to be a ‘varied and diverse place’

20 Essex Street Chambers gets carried away on Twitter

Aug 6 2015 1:53pm

Blogger is first Open University student to bag Harvard Law School scholarship

From the heights of Legal Cheek to slumming it in the Ivy League

Aug 6 2015 11:28am

Trendy London law firm does its bit to tackle erectile dysfunction

Diversity recruitment agency announcement suggests Olswang has got into the good wood game

Aug 6 2015 9:32am

Ministry of Justice slaps penniless tramps with whopping court charges to bolster coffers

The desperate monetisation of Britain’s criminal justice system

Aug 5 2015 5:20pm

Shearman & Sterling’s London office switches Kaplan for Uni of Law in LPC deal

Contract kicks off this September in a post-sale boost for university

Aug 5 2015 2:23pm

Crime legal aid firms are forced to offer cheap ‘McJustice’ to clients, says strike leader

Head of London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association also has a pop at legal education establishment

Aug 5 2015 9:27am

University of Law launches money back guarantee for out-of-work LPC students

ULaw offering 50% rebate of fees for those unable to secure job in "legal or commerce"

Aug 4 2015 11:03am

Andy Burnham bids to battle Corbyn by being friend to legal aid lawyers

Leadership election manifesto of former health secretary calls for a review of recent cuts

Aug 4 2015 9:33am

Two universities bin law conversion course as market tightens

Keele and Hertfordshire law schools announced today that it’s all over for their Graduate Diploma in Law courses

Aug 3 2015 4:25pm

UCL legal academic discovers corporate lawyers are missing the ethics gene

UCL law school boffin produces an image of what good legal values should look like

Aug 3 2015 11:48am

University of Law boss stands down in post-sale top-tier shake-up

Exclusive: Chief executive goes and top finance man is also thought to be heading for door

Aug 3 2015 9:36am

Baker & McKenzie insists paralegal applicants must be two-year qualified solicitors

Now you have to be a qualified lawyer to get a non-qualified job

Jul 31 2015 2:02pm

Latest research: three-quarters of young lawyers say they fear professional ‘burnout’

More money would help rectify work-life unbalance … along with fewer irritating clients

Jul 31 2015 11:29am

Herbert Smith Freehills keeps 34 out of 37 trainees

Elite City outfit posts 92% retention rate

Jul 31 2015 11:08am

Legal charity offers seven social welfare training contracts for second year running

Application process kicks off next week for positions across the UK

Jul 31 2015 9:33am

Judicial girl power a long way off, but women make gains on bench

Official figures show more than half of young judges are female

Jul 30 2015 2:06pm

Last-minute training contract applications are a waste of time

Thinking of burning the midnight oil to make a bid for City glory? Don’t, advise top law firm specialists

Jul 30 2015 12:27pm

Two silks and a regional law firm have best High Court ‘win rates’, says survey

Boffins invoke artificial intelligence to determine which are the best litigation horses to back

Jul 30 2015 9:28am

Revised trainee solicitor hiring code is here; market braces for chaos

Law firm pressure forces junior lawyers group to drop application deadline guidance

Jul 29 2015 2:44pm

‘My Family’ actor with drugs record bids to be human rights barrister

Gabriel Thomson was busted for coke seven years ago, but that's not stopping him from going for philosophy first and then the GDL

Jul 29 2015 12:54pm