Category: News
Ropes & Gray launches social mobility work experience programme
Two lucky participants will go on to receive £20k scholarship, vac scheme place and long-term mentoring courtesy of US law firm
Latest speakers announced as profession gears up for LegalEdCon 2022
Leading figures to descend on Kings Cross as Legal Cheek’s future of legal education and training conference returns this Thursday
On this day, 100 years ago, the first woman was called to the bar
Dr Ivy Williams made history on 10 May 1922
‘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