Category: News

Anonymous criminal barrister posts breakdown of entire year’s earnings on Twitter — less than £20,000
£19.5k BEFORE chambers rent, insurance and practising certificate

Criminal bar strike in pics 📸
Barristers join picket lines across the country

RPC and Taylor Wessing employees win award for alien invasion music video
Meet the duo repping City law in music

A&O and Travers Smith launch LGBTQI Legal Aid Fund
City duo to support organisations in countries where same-sex relations and trans identities are criminalised

Mock trial winner ‘lost for words’ after scooping Smart car
Another competition, another car 🚗

Partners less happy than trainees, research suggests
It would appear money doesn't buy happiness

High Court rejects barrister’s appeal against fine for calling opponent a ‘hysterical woman’
Judge dismisses argument that the sanction infringed on freedom of expression

Mayer Brown posts autumn retention score with one of the City’s first solicitor apprentices accepting NQ role
6 out of 9 rookies to stay put

RPC increases trainee pay in London and Bristol
City rookies to earn £48k

SQE prep provider creates ‘humanitarian scholarship’ for aspiring lawyers fleeing war
Half price SQE1 course with BARBRI

ULaw launches bar course in Newcastle
First budding barristers start this September

Criminal solicitor to share comical tales of the justice system at Edinburgh Fringe
Shit Lawyer is 'a manifesto for change', says Abigail Rolling

Mishcon launches Asia secondments for London trainees
Singapore seat underway and plans for Hong Kong in 2023

Criminal barristers to strike as row over legal aid escalates
Walkouts from next Monday

Travers tackles food waste with its free canteen
Office café to provide three meals a day from September

Pawsitive vibes: Slaughter and May trials ‘Bring your Dog to Work Day’
Uber-traditional law firm says pet pooches can help boost mental health and morale 🐶

White & Case boosts maintenance grant by over 60% in response to ‘increased cost of living’
Future trainees to receive £17k a year during LPC and GDL

Why law students shouldn’t be discouraged by anti-lawyer rhetoric
Top solicitors and barristers provide words of encouragement for aspiring lawyers