Category: News
Homeless student bags straight A*s and secures place at Cambridge to study law
Jacob Lewis was left sofa-surfing after a family fall-out -- now he's bagged a place at Cambridge University to study law
17 barristers at one chambers probed over claims of poor behaviour towards pupils
Bar Standards Board refuses to provide details, but says single case has distorted internal conduct figures
Pupillage Gateway might not move to January after all
Bar Council in possible U-turn over centralised application switch
Former refugee with first class law degree bids to crowdfund BPTC
Plucky east Londoner needs £12,000 to do bar course
RPC unveils autumn retention figure of 79%
City of London firm will keep 15 of 19 UK trainees
Wannabe solicitor loses £800k claim for missing out on training contract because of car crash
Judge doesn’t buy line that law firm's alleged negligence caused loss of professional opportunity -- but praises litigant-in-person’s legal skills
Diva of Divorce up against most-followed lawyer on Instagram in battle for ‘Legal Personality of the Year’ crown
It’s solicitor v barrister in fight for coveted Law Society gong
Ince & Co posts lowest autumn retention figure so far – keeping just 60% of its new lawyers
City firm Ince & Co drop to bottom of retention table, with six NQs heading for the exit
Modern lawyers are far too specialised, says Supreme Court judge
First Jonathan Sumption QC laid into law degrees, now he’s criticising qualified lawyers for being narrow minded
Court document in full: Lawyer demands Game of Thrones-style ‘trial by combat’
New York sole practitioner attempts to resurrect ancient common law tradition
City firm monitors lawyers’ calls in bid to combat stress
Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co implements app-based tech that checks for stress in lawyer telephone voices
Uni of Law ditches Birmingham part-time BPTC just six weeks before start date
Exclusive: Students with part-time places told to head to London instead
Killjoy bar leaders aim to phase out dining requirement for qualification as a barrister
Age-old tradition of drunken bread roll fights looks set to be pensioned off as it's not sufficiently educational
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
Fact check: Oxbridge-obsessed chambers claims to be a ‘varied and diverse place’
20 Essex Street Chambers gets carried away on Twitter
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
Trendy London law firm does its bit to tackle erectile dysfunction
Diversity recruitment agency announcement suggests Olswang has got into the good wood game
Ministry of Justice slaps penniless tramps with whopping court charges to bolster coffers
The desperate monetisation of Britain’s criminal justice system
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
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
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"