Category: News

Judge uses ‘International Teddy Act 1908’ to help child adopt his teddies
Young boy penned letter to the Family Court of Western Australia 🧸

Judge Rinder to release thriller based on pupil barrister
TV star tells Legal Cheek new book is 'loosely based on truth'

Commercial law firm embraces crypto payments
Gunnercooke gets onboard with Bitcoin

Hogan Lovells to move City HQ across the road
New digs from 2026

Law ties with investment banking in graduate salary rankings
Some new starters can expect to earn £50k

Dechert and Fried Frank raise junior lawyer salaries in London
£140k and £160k

BPP strikes SQE training deals with international and national law firms
Law school giant to prep Dentons, Cripps and Walker Morris trainees

Law firm invites training contract seekers ten-pin bowling
Recruitment with a twist 🎳

Matrix apologises for putting embargoed judgment on press release
Master of the Rolls calls for 'stricter measures' as elite set sticks ruling across social media in error

Online law school strikes SQE deal with Oxford Brookes
College of Legal Practice to offer prep courses at discounted rate

Revealed: The chambers with the most supportive barristers 2022
Which sets are like second families?

‘Wigs reek of privilege and exclusion… I cannot see the point of them’, says top QC
Has horsehair had its day?

Macfarlanes posts 100% spring trainee retention score
All six March qualifying rookies stay on at silver circle firm

NQ lawyer pay at Eversheds moves to £95k
Regional rates up nearly a quarter to £62k

Elite law firms unite to help victims of domestic abuse secure protective injunctions
'DARA' is staffed by pro bono lawyers from Travers Smith, Debevoise, Gibson Dunn, HogLovs, Latham, Reed Smith and Slaughters

Squires boosts London NQ lawyer pay to £95k
Rises in regions too

Swelling junior lawyer salaries ‘only a sticking plaster’, Sir Nigel Knowles warns
DWF chief calls on law firms to find better incentives to retain talent

Supreme Court starts hunt for two new justices
Follows retirement of Lord Lloyd-Jones and Lady Arden

Meet the TikTokin’ junior lawyer documenting the highs and lows of corporate life
Henry has attracted nearly 30k followers

Addleshaw Goddard merges with Irish law firm
Deal expected to close by 1 March

Hill Dickinson replaces TCs with apprenticeships in training shake-up
New graduate pathway sees aspiring lawyers juggle legal work with SQE studies at ULaw