Category: News

‘The overall culture in law is damaging many junior lawyers’, JLD chair warns

Mental Health Awareness Week prompts renewed calls for change as wellbeing charity LawCare extends online support

May 10 2022 8:40am
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HSF junior lawyer makes Forbes power list for ‘alternative Old Boys network’

Sophie Pender recognised for social mobility efforts

May 9 2022 9:29am
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Solicitor who injected food with blood found not guilty due to insanity

Leoaai Elghareeb suffered psychosis during supermarket rampage last summer, causing nearly £500,000 of damages

May 6 2022 12:18pm

Would you take a pay cut to WFH permanently? 88% of our readers say no

Findings follow Stephenson Harwood's announcement last week that it will reduce salaries by 20% if staff choose to work from home full-time

May 5 2022 9:59am
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Skadden lawyer to lead City social mobility charity

Elizabeth Robertson succeeds Hogan Lovells' Nicholas Cheffings as executive chair of PRIME

May 5 2022 8:58am

KPMG reveals plans to double UK lawyer headcount

Targets extra 220 solicitors by 2024

May 4 2022 11:32am
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Britain’s top legal education YouTuber to deliver keynote at LegalEdCon 2022

Ibz Mo to deliver fresh takes on legal education and training at 12 May in-person event

May 4 2022 10:14am

Huddersfield law grad through to MasterChef final

Radha Kaushal-Bolland among final five

May 3 2022 1:01pm
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Reed Smith to relocate London office

2024 move date

Apr 29 2022 10:47am
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Bar Council and northern law firm Ward Hadaway hit by cyber attacks

Criminals continue to target profession

Apr 28 2022 10:49am
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ULaw launches US bar course

Law school to prep non-US students and grads for New York or California bar exams

Apr 27 2022 11:41am
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Eight new speakers announced for LegalEdCon 2022

Latest speakers unveiled to bolster line-up for Legal Cheek’s annual future of legal education and training conference as countdown to 12 May draws closer

Apr 27 2022 10:43am
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Top City firms fund 22 aspiring social welfare lawyers through the SQE

Begin prep with BARBRI this month

Apr 27 2022 8:53am
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Alex Salmond trial QC guilty of professional misconduct over train gossip

Faculty of Advocates confirms finding against Gordon Jackson QC

Apr 26 2022 12:56pm