Category: News

Freshfields hit with nepotism claims after two trainees land New York secondments
Magic Circle giant gets itself in a pickle

New Zealand grants mountain same legal rights as a person
Mt Taranaki will own itself

Legally Blonde star Reese Witherspoon mistaken for real lawyer during jury duty
Fellow jurors wanted her as foreman

Founder Rosenblatt reclaims former firm from listed legal business
Follows war of words

AI must uphold the rule of law, campaigners urge
Developers should 'act responsibly'

Ban for ex-Magic Circle IT worker who sexually abused child
Possessed over 150 indecent images

SRA chair admits SQE ‘teething problems’
Regulator will keep responding to student feedback

Debevoise raises London NQ lawyer salaries to £173.1k
Rises up the ladder too

SRA gears up for Post Office prosecutions
Regulator 'hopeful' actions can begin over the summer

Solicitors’ sanctions to remain public for longer
Applies to both firms and lawyers

Trading temporarily suspended for listed legal business RBG
'Uncertainty' over future

Suits fans given glimpse of new spinoff series
Premiering 23 February

Host of US law firms launch Trump trackers
Follows frantic flurry of executive orders

Cambridge, Oxford, and UCL secure top 10 spots in global law school rankings
Stanford takes top spot 🥇

Reporting restrictions lifted in family courts in ‘watershed’ reform
Follows two-year ‘transparency pilot’

City law firm boss questions sustainability of huge lawyer salaries
‘There’s always a reckoning’

Sustainability low on law firms’ priority list, research finds
Trumped by cybersecurity, cost management and diversity

Drug dealing duo barred from legal profession
Worked for same law firm

105 make the grade in latest KC appointments
326 applied