Category: News
Doughty Street barrister a pawn in Clooney prank on Pitt
Hollywood mega-star seems to think his human rights missus is a criminal law specialist, who will spring him from jail when he snaps his fingers
Vast majority of crime barristers back picket lines to oppose legal aid reforms
First challenge for newbie Justice Secretary Gove could be to dodge his way through striking lawyers looking to block “dual provider scheme”
Was Osama bin Laden doing law revision when raided by special forces?
US spooks reveal the al-Qaeda supremo was leafing through LSE-educated solicitor’s book in the hours before he met his end
Edward Snowden journo’s latest scoop is about GCHQ’s misuse of a gavel
The moment the campaign against inappropriate gavels hit the big league
London trainee faces career ruin after faking law degree and LPC certificates
Regulator releases details today of finding against 29-year-old former London South Bank University student
Hogan Lovells boosts trainee and NQ wedge to join Slaughters at top of English pay table
Anglo-US firm waves two fingers at UK deflation as it pumps up newly-qualified salaries by 7.5%
Hollywood comes to a Nottinghamshire high street law firm
This solicitors’ outfit clearly wanted to get into the media with an easy PR stunt -- so here’s the story
Market recovery in question as three law firms wield redundancy axe
Could flurry of lay-offs at Hill Dickinson, Capsticks and Plexus Law be the beginning of something?
New Lord Chancellor Michael Gove quotes Lord Denning as he is sworn in at the RCJ
“Be you ever so high, the law is above you"
Chuka ‘no’ shocka, Sir Keir declines – only Lamb remains as lawyer party leader candidate
But is former East Anglia employment partner actually being led to electoral slaughter?
Top QC in househusband U-turn as she tells young women lawyers to share domestic chores
Dinah Rose backtracks on advice to young women lawyers to find "someone to have dinner on the table"
Exposed: mysterious lawyer charting conquests in sex autobiography is ex-Herbert Smith and Clyde & Co
Exclusive: Twitter slip-up sees solicitor's identity uncovered by Legal Cheek following anonymous Mail Online article
Sheffield barrister that fled justice given four years for assaulting girl
Crimewatch alert led to arrest at Birmingham Airport of former St John’s Buildings lawyer
University of Law and students in row over legality of obscene songs
Law school claims Town Police Clauses Act 1847 still applies -- students not so sure
City firms silent on whether they will follow PwC in ignoring A-level results
Big Four accountancy firm shocks recruitment market and stuns Square Mile law firms with its bid to boost diversity
Lawyer rugby tackles client in court to foil escape bid
Wallabies call-up must be next for a man who practises in one of the most exotic and remote parts of the world
‘Rappers may have it over judges,’ says Lord Neuberger after listening to Jay Z
Judicial bombshell -- Supreme Court supremo Lord Neuberger has been listening to Brooklyn's star hip-hop and gangsta geezer
Campaigners at war over Human Rights Act petition
Online bid to force a referendum has picked up nearly 200,000 signatures, but the experts reckon it’s counterproductive
Research: sleep-starved barristers are court zombies
The profession is stressed out and depressed, according to the Bar Council’s own survey, with a fifth saying they would never recommend it as a career
Students back code for TC offers timetable — law firms don’t
Signs that City graduate recruitment departments are already moving towards a training contract free for all as the regulator ditches existing guidelines