Category: News
City lawyers can’t agree if they should fill the legal aid gap
National Pro Bono week kicks off with a disagreement about Justice Secretary Michael Gove's grand plan
Inner Temple votes to cut library space by nearly 60% so it can build a lecture theatre
Move comes as rumours of not-for-profit BPTC continue to swirl
Why is nobody talking about this Friday’s Inns of Court scholarship deadline?
£5 million in cash and rent-free flats in central London up for grabs, but publicity is minimal
Ethnic minority City lawyers still under-represented at the top
Only a handful of internationalist firms reflect diversity of the general UK population
A practising barrister who failed to declare his old criminal convictions has been disbarred
Omissions come back to haunt forgery barrister 16 years later
Police investigate after sex attack on paralegal’s miniature Shetland pony
Tiny horse was found badly injured, with two separate internal injuries
Not accepting students with 2:2s is ‘discriminatory’, argues top legal academic
Dr Steven Vaughan says degree class doesn’t tell the whole story
City law firm trainee pukes on senior colleagues at awards ceremony
Stephenson Harwood rookie "extremely embarrassed" after vomiting on three associates
Top Blackstone Chambers QC rejects Oxford prof’s claim that technology will destroy legal profession
Lawyers survived email and Twitter -- and they'll survive everything else, predicts David Pannick QC
Blogging ex-judge gives exclusive insight into one of most influential cases of past 150 years
Former Court of Appeal man reveals what it was like to decide Re A (conjoined twins)
Humans star Gemma Chan reveals that she nearly joined Slaughter and May
Oxford law graduate did vac scheme at magic circle firm
Halloween is coming: Witch takes ‘world’s best-known warlock’ to court over harassment claims
Witches versus warlocks -- but who will triumph in court?
Mysterious barrister lifts lid on cocaine-fuelled life at the bar
Courts are apparently full of coke-head lawyers ogling jury members
New Legally Blonde film could feature Elle Woods as a Supreme Court judge
Reese Witherspoon has serious ambitions for her character
Supreme Court hears joint enterprise case that could shake up criminal law syllabuses
Key legal principle could be overhauled -- and the whole process is being charted live via video and social media
Smart-dressing Royal Holloway law student slams ‘tracksuit slob’ classmates for judging her
Fresher goes public with pain at "passive-aggressive" remarks from casually-dressed peers
Author of criminal law bible profiled in Mail Online as relationship guru
Jonathan Herring -- of ‘Criminal Law: Texts, Cases and Materials’ fame -- has diversified
Junior corporate solicitor quits law to become boxing promoter
Former CMS Cameron McKenna legacy firm man, 29, to use legal skills to emulate Don King
Bristol corporate law firms club together to pay for a legal aid trainee
Michael Gove is going to love this
Most Lists 2016: There are lots of junior women solicitors, but everywhere else in legal profession is dominated by men
Being a partner, a QC or even a rookie barrister is largely a man's game
Charlotte Proudman blames uni drinking societies for lack of women lawyers
High profile junior barrister says boozey bonding blocks female influence -- but figures suggest other causes may be to blame