Category: News
Top silk leads call for renegade criminal bar strike over legal aid cuts
Michael Mansfield QC lashes out at Criminal Bar Association decision to drop direct action plans
Breaking news: Shearman & Sterling retains all 13 of its London trainees
New Yorkers are first off the blocks for the “autumn” newly-qualified retention figures
Ukip man calls himself ‘Barrister-at-Law’ despite not doing pupillage — BSB says it’s OK
Bar regulator relaxed -- and Bar Council silent -- about protecting professional title
Gove goes to war with judges over posh digs
In his first battle with legal profession, new Justice Secretary wants to flog mansions and penthouse lodgings for Crown Court judges on the road
City lawyers pour cold water over proposed apprenticeship qualifying route
Professional regulators’ plans described as potentially weakening entry standards by not even requiring GCSEs
Male solicitors are paid 38% more than women at commercial law firms
The sisters are taking a huge hammering worth thousands of pounds, according to research released yesterday
Exclusive: Reed Smith hands qualifying solicitors modest 1.5% pay rise
Trainees at Pittsburgh-headquartered practice do better, bagging 4% rise to take them to £38,500
Smartphones have made overtime culture ‘endemic’ in law, finds research
Study released today blames phones and tablets for allowing partners to deprive associates of almost all sleep
Sacked gun-wielding magistrate’s fury at ‘double standard’ over BSB investigator’s Dirty Harry-style photo
AK-47 posing magistrate frustrated over his fate as staffer at bar regulator goes unpunished for Facebook gun pose
Research: wannabe barristers are the biggest law student druggies
Legal Practice Course counterparts are the least keen, but when wannabe solicitors do take drugs they have penchant for cocaine
Tory councillor fake barrister avoids jail, but gets 200 hours of scrubbing graffiti
Monika Juneja forged university and bar school qualifications to bag legal sector jobs -- and a top slot with local Conservatives
Social Mobility Commission slams law firms for rich kids bias
Unofficial "poshness test" which champions "talent" keeps riff-raff out of legal profession
Exclusive Legal Cheek survey: 27% of lawyers take recreational drugs
And it’s not just a spliff round the barbecue — nearly 80% of users are keen on class-A gear
Exclusive: Top chambers reveals pupillage candidates in accidental data breach
Red faces at London criminal and housing set, as Garden Court cocks up email and widely discloses names of wannabe barristers set for interviews
Canary Wharf law firm asks students to pay to do work experience
"You will be charged for us providing you this opportunity"
Media luvvie barristers in cat fight over alleged assault on London bus
Telly talking-head Sophia Cannon squares up against Doughty Street's Tunde Okewale -- with a phone hacking lawyer thrown into mix
Yesterday the government made it pointless to qualify into a legal aid law firm
Ministry of Justice announced a second round of cuts to crime specialist law firms, taking total to more than 17% in last year
Top HSBC in-house lawyer tells students to ditch gap years and work at JD Sports instead
Show us that you're not reliant on mummy and daddy, says bar graduate-turned-banking lawyer Sandie Okoro
Post-sale Uni of Law takes hit as Baker & McKenzie deserts to BPP
Global firm is latest big name to pull training deal from University of Law, following in footsteps of Allen & Overy and Clifford Chance
City University law student ‘hired hit man to stab to death boyfriend’
Nargis Riaz in Old Bailey dock denies involvement in vicious killing of a London mini-cab worker
White & Case ups London NQ pay by 20% to a whopping £90k
But flash New Yorkers still £10k off lead pace set by US rivals in Square Mile