News
Morning round-up: Monday 8 February
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
The SRA is to call 16 witnesses from institutions on Lord Harley’s CV to decide if it’s legit
Five-day hearing to put to bed 18 months of confusion
Lawyers stir up animal pic Twitter storm against UN’s polarising Assange ruling
#ArbitrarilyDetained
Kirkland & Ellis latest firm to join ‘100 club’ with junior lawyer pay boost
London office of Chicago outfit becomes the seventh firm to pay its NQs £100k
LSE law student files motion to ban student society set up to stop university banning things
Final year LLB-er thinks free speech society is “self-important and ill-informed”
Magic circle partners bill £110 for typing ‘yes’ or ‘no’ and hitting ‘send’ on an email, claims law firm costs expert
The knives are out for '£1,100 an hour' City law firms
Junior solicitor group campaigns against Brexit as City firm urges young people to vote
Corporate lawyers get into referendum spirit
Blackstone boosts pupillage award from £60k to £65k to keep pace with elite sets
Big-money commercial and public law set throws an extra £5,000 at its baby barristers
Morning round-up: Friday 5 February
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
China meltdown, Brexit fears and 100% trainee retention rates — what does it all mean for wannabe lawyers?
We tested two undergraduate law students on their commercial awareness
BPP law library standoff: Female GDL student confronts two male laptop thieves — grabbing one by the throat
Aspiring lawyers build human wall across Waterloo campus entrance to stop would-be thieves escaping
Berwin Leighton Paisner in merger talks with US giant Greenberg Traurig to create 2,500 lawyer super firm
BLPGT could become latest transatlantic giant
Law-themed cakes sweep the country as the Great Legal Bake proves a hit
Who said lawyers weren't creative?
Countdown to completion: My four weeks of hell as a London corporate finance lawyer
Three hours sleep and no social life -- what the glossy graduate recruitment brochures fail to divulge
Morning round-up: Thursday 4 February
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Lecturers from Oxford, Bangor, Leicester, Trent, Westminster and Sheffield Hallam shortlisted for ‘Law Teacher of the Year 2016’
Frontrunners for the coveted prize recognised for their "exceptional teaching"
A law firm that used to make trainees pay for law school is now covering the cost of GDL and LPC fees
Partners at Fladgate flip broke students some cash -- will other firms outside the City follow?
Morning round-up: Wednesday 3 February
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Michael Gove is lampooned as he gives evidence about impact of proposed British Bill of Rights
He looked like a nervous first year giving a presentation in a public law tutorial
Facebook lawyers object to Belgian court order — because it contains English words
Social media giant’s legal team are concerned Belgians won't understand terms such as “cookie” and “browser”