Category: News

UK law firm becomes first to sell legal advice as NFT

Crypto art 🤝 billable hours

Oct 27 2021 1:13pm
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SQE prep provider launches £50k social mobility scholarship fund

Law Training Centre's 'Access to Law' scheme enables candidates to complete part one prep course for just £950

Oct 27 2021 10:28am
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City Consortium outlines SQE plan for future trainees

11-month programme includes super-exam prep and 'bespoke' top-up course

Oct 27 2021 9:22am

Macfarlanes launches ‘app scheme’

TC hopefuls can now get the 'trainee experience' via their phones

Oct 26 2021 10:54am

Disbarment for barrister who asked fellow lawyer to lie about sex assault

Handed suspended sentence earlier this year

Oct 25 2021 10:20am

Don’t scrap the bar aptitude test, urges Bar Council. Up the pass mark instead

BSB mulls ditching entry exam after report found fewer than 1% of wannabe barristers fail to pass it

Oct 25 2021 9:17am

Top law professors pen letter in support of academic freedom

Intervention follows student protests targeting philosophy prof Kathleen Stock

Oct 22 2021 12:55pm

BARBRI tests commercial awareness and creative thinking with new full SQE1 scholarship

What do you think the law firm of the future will look like?

Oct 22 2021 12:28pm

Abertay law grad sues uni over probe into ‘offensive’ gender comments

Lisa Keogh was cleared of wrongdoing but is now taking legal action for 'stress caused at the most crucial part of my university career'

Oct 22 2021 8:42am

First practising female barrister commemorated with London blue plaque

Lady Hale unveiled the historical marker

Oct 21 2021 10:16am

Dechert boosts trainee salaries to £50k and £55k

Rises of up to 11% 💷

Oct 21 2021 9:16am
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Fund legal aid training contracts and pupillages, MPs and peers urge government

Cross-party group call on SRA to include social welfare modules in new SQE

Oct 20 2021 12:49pm

Law firm partner workloads increase as remote working makes it more difficult to delegate to juniors and trainees, survey finds

Many outfits report rise in chargeable hours, especially at senior levels

Oct 20 2021 9:39am

Lawyers pound the pavements for charity

Over 8,000 walkers went the distance at yesterday's London Legal Walk

Oct 19 2021 11:13am

NQ solicitor pay hits £140k at Cleary Gottlieb

Trainees handed substantial rises of £7,500

Oct 19 2021 9:10am

Ex-Eversheds trainee who sexually assaulted two sleeping students at house party jailed for 8 years

Attacked law student before groping another woman while she slept

Oct 18 2021 12:41pm
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Osborne Clarke picks BPP to prepare future trainees for SQE

First cohort starts September 2024

Oct 18 2021 8:55am

Secure your place: The November UK Virtual Law Fair 2021

Meet 70 law firms, including all the Magic Circle and leading US firms’ London offices, international firms, and national firms across the UK

Oct 15 2021 4:32pm

Viral TikTok of law student who continued moot comp despite passing out prompts debate over profession’s focus on resilience

Commenters warn of the dangers of 'glamourising' work ethic at the cost of health

Oct 14 2021 1:34pm