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

Squire Patton Boggs bumps NQ rates to £100k from January 2023
£65k in the regions

Ince launches investigation into allegation top lawyers ‘disrespected’ waitress
Claim made in viral Twitter post

HSF junior lawyer makes Forbes power list for ‘alternative Old Boys network’
Sophie Pender recognised for social mobility efforts

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

Midlands barristers launch £15k bar course scholarship for students with ‘strong’ regional links
Understood to be first of its kind

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

Skadden lawyer to lead City social mobility charity
Elizabeth Robertson succeeds Hogan Lovells' Nicholas Cheffings as executive chair of PRIME

KPMG reveals plans to double UK lawyer headcount
Targets extra 220 solicitors by 2024

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

Huddersfield law grad through to MasterChef final
Radha Kaushal-Bolland among final five

Ex-Irwin Mitchell lawyer jailed for researching defendant in trial she was serving as a juror
Told fellow jurors what she discovered

TikTok tours of some of the City’s fanciest law firm offices
Go beyond the plush lobbies

Reed Smith to relocate London office
2024 move date

Bar Council and northern law firm Ward Hadaway hit by cyber attacks
Criminals continue to target profession

BPP students given ‘human and business skills’ boost with O Shaped Lawyer collab
Embedded into SQE prep

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

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

Top City firms fund 22 aspiring social welfare lawyers through the SQE
Begin prep with BARBRI this month

Alex Salmond trial QC guilty of professional misconduct over train gossip
Faculty of Advocates confirms finding against Gordon Jackson QC