Category: News

Road legal! Bradford Uni law student bags car following mock trial success
Beats an Amazon voucher

Competition for pupillage fiercer than ever, Bar Council report finds
Number of applicants chasing each pupillage spot 'steadily increasing' every year

Mishcon launches in Hong Kong ahead of stock market flotation
New overseas outpost follows 'combination' with UK outfit Taylor Vinters

BPP unveils SQE course details
Exclusive: Starting from £9.5k for law grads, excluding exam fees

Over two-thirds of lawyers have suffered mental ill-health
Lawyer wellbeing charity LawCare calls for profession-wide change in new report

Big law firms love LinkedIn and YouTube, research finds
Twitter not so much

Slaughter and May appoints first female leader
Deborah Finkler takes up newly-created managing partner role next spring

Netflix drama to follow hot-shot lawyer’s journey on becoming her firm’s first ethnic minority female partner
Could Partner Track rival Suits?

£6 million up for grabs as Inns open bar scholarship applications
You've got to be in it to win it 🤑

Ashurst targets 35% ethnic minority and 13% Black trainees
New targets to be met by 2026

Ban for trainee solicitor who altered emails in attempt to ‘keep up with work’
Actions undermine public trust in profession, says regulator

White & Case records 78% trainee retention rate
New recruits start on £130k

Burges boosts Bristol NQ lawyer pay to £60k
Matches Osborne Clarke with extra 15% 💷

Magistrate rebuked for calling junior barrister ‘huffy’ after she was mistaken for defendant three times in one day
Jacqueline Mitchell handed formal warning for 'ill judged' tweet

Junior solicitor fined over ‘threatening’ tweets to MPs
Ex-Shoosmiths associate admits inciting abuse against politicians after SRA investigation

Should future lawyers avoid wearing brown shoes?
Unwritten rule touches a nerve

Slaughters joins magic circle rivals in upping trainee pay
Second boost this year

SQE provider BARBRI launches diversity project with law firms, universities and charity
£75k pledged so far to help broaden entry into legal profession