Trio of magic circle training contract offers for LSE student who grew up on council estate
Panashe Jinga has turned down Linklaters and Allen & Overy to train at Freshfields
Bond Dickinson unveils 81% retention score as firm prepares for US mega merger
Tie-up with North Carolina’s Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice will go live next month
Tribunal tells SRA to review its guidance on solicitors having sex with clients
Plea comes as SDT fines lawyer £8,500 for failing to disclose relationship
Farewell Lord Neuberger! Supreme Court judge hangs up robes as his right-hand woman takes over
Lady Hale will be first female president
Secret trainees are revealing what City law life is really like
Elitist partners, recruitment event fibs and shafted PAs
Pinsent Masons launches ‘earn while you learn’ paralegal programme as it reveals solicitor apprenticeship hopes
Firm follows in footsteps of Freshfields and DWF
Travers Smith keeps 18 of its 20 NQs following summer salary boost
City outfit chalks up impressive 90% autumn rate
Cambridge law student who burned £20 note in front of homeless man KEEPS university place
Ronald Coyne reveals he’s been threatened with chemical attacks in apology letter to peers
Subway 11-inch sandwiches settlement only benefited lawyers, judge rules
Case reached court thanks to ‘minor social media sensation’
Anglo-Aussie break up: Stock market-listed Slater and Gordon confirms split from UK arm
Decision follows a string of disappointing financial results
Two robot lawyers have ‘hooked up’ in legal software ‘relationship’ first
Tech bubble alert as ‘LISA’ gets together with ‘Billy Bot’
The demise of family law? Courts now ‘largely inaccessible’ and ‘unintelligible’, says court president
As solicitor is lambasted for ‘extremely serious professional errors’ in complex child abuse case
Suited and booted lawyer with 150k followers sets pulses racing across the globe
‘What type of lawyer are you so I can know what type of crime to commit’
London via the back door: Do I accept my Midlands training contract offer?
Sights set on the City
Edinburgh law student in massive row with his uni over ‘mocking ISIS’ claim
University of Edinburgh says it’s investigating ‘complaints alleging misconduct’
Trainee solicitor who charged clients for legal advice handed 18-month suspended jail term
Training contract disaster
Parking company sues top QC, loses
Doughty Street barrister achieves what fish and chip shop owner Barry Beavis couldn’t
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‘Karate lawyer’ promises to take out corrupt judges using martial arts expertise in hilarious spoof advert
‘What I lack in formal legal qualifications, I make up for in karate moves’
Welsh wannabe lawyers unable to obtain vital student funding just weeks before law school starts
And their government is being blamed
Eight tech start-ups set to join Allen & Overy’s hipster-esque ‘Fuse’ innovation hub
Well-known AI system and asylum advice app among successful applicants
Anger as City law’s only Michelin-starred chef ‘forced out’ of Watson Farley & Williams
The famous Philippe Roth exits after 14 years at firm
Magic circle top payer opts against raising NQ pay above £85k, dashing ‘100 Club’ dreams
Freshfields to stick rather than twist
Regulator issues ‘what not to do’ social media guide for solicitors amid rise in complaints
Just days after a law firm partner was sanctioned following anti-Semitic Facebook rant
Will studying at the Open University limit my training contract chances?
Its status among solicitors is a worry
Fake barrister listed on genuine chambers website is jailed for defrauding terminally ill woman out of £92,000
He falsely claimed to have a law degree from the University of London
End ‘direct jurisdiction’ of EU courts post Brexit, says government
But Justice Minister says UK will need to keep “half an eye” on its rulings in the future
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Jones Day junior lawyer runs marathon in a three-piece suit
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Chemsex junior barrister opens up about boyfriend’s death and his suspension from legal profession
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9am lectures should be scrapped
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The big 5-0: Two Bristol firms reach unprecedented NQ pay milestone
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Cardiff in law school first as it unveils live lion mascot
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