Category: News
January event dates for aspiring solicitors and barristers
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SQE students voice frustration over erroneous exam slot cancellation email
Kaplan stresses assessments will go ahead as planned, apologises for confusion
Win an SQE1 scholarship with your vision of what motivates young people to be solicitors
New BARBRI essay comp
SRA misses deadline for publishing SQE provider pass rates
Issues statement that leaves open possibility of it never happening
BCLP braces for low trainee retention rate
Exclusive: Firm stresses final figures still to be finalised
Super regulator probes events leading up to SRA’s closure of Axiom Ince
Important for public confidence, says LSB
Number of ‘privileged’ solicitors remains high
But significant progress in other areas, says regulator
Slaughters makes ‘reduced hours for reduced pay’ permanent option for lawyers
Follows succesful pilot
Ex-Linklaters associate sells CrowdJustice for undisclosed fee
Julia Salasky living the dream as she turns focus to her second business, a $25 million legal tech start-up
Solicitor who slapped paralegal on the buttocks suspended
Four separate allegations
Re-start of University of Hertfordshire Bar Course is delayed
Bar Standards Board says uni isn't ready to resume next month, as had been planned
Judges encouraged to embrace AI — carefully
What could possibly go wrong?
A&O Shearman to be led by Magic Circle partners
'Shearman & Sterling partners will hold very significant leadership positions globally and regionally' but the top jobs will go to Allen & Overy lawyers this time around
The best chambers to do your pupillage with — 2024 edition
Chambers Most List ranks sets on training, work quality, support and more
Covington junior lawyer and Kent Uni scoop wins at Pro Bono Awards
Recognises and celebrates pro bono excellence
Rookie error doesn’t have to cost barrister his career
Bar disciplinary shows mercy
Exclusive: Legal influencer’s law firm goes into liquidation owing over £1 million
Behind Alice Stephenson’s social media glitz and glamour, an uncomfortable reality check
It’s becoming even harder to get a pupillage
Number of aspiring barristers on the rise; the number of pupillages not so much
A cautionary email tale for trainees
Law firm’s dismissal of trainee solicitor who forwarded client comms to private email address upheld