News
UK-India agreement brings ‘huge opportunities’ for lawyers
Formally signed this week
SRA releases first review into SQE ethnicity attainment gap
Career barriers can have a 'knock-on' effect in candidates' performance
Clifford Chance ramps up US presence with Texas launch
Magic Circle outfit now has three offices in America 🇺🇸
Barrister, 34, becomes youngest ever minority ethnic Crown Court judge
Ayesha Smart hopes appointment will dispel myth that 'judges have to be more senior, come from a privileged background or gone to Oxbridge'
Future pupil barrister ‘overwhelmed’ by crowdfunding success
Lewis Dean raises over ten grand towards bar course
Top lawyer goes public with decision to walk away from ‘BigLaw partnership’ offers
'I am stepping off the hamster wheel,' writes Eli Albrecht in viral LinkedIn post
Osborne Clarke unveils 2040 net-zero target
Green goal backed by science
Trainee qualification season: what to think about when switching firms
City lawyer Sana Shafi shares advice with final seat trainees nearing the end of their training contracts
Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the weekend
Exclusive: Freshfields increases number of training contracts to 100
Magic Circle firm becomes joint-second largest provider following London office growth
‘Are my hopes of a career at the commercial bar just a pipe dream?’
I’ve been seduced by the CVs of incoming pupils and I know mine does not exactly shine in comparison, says a reader requiring advice
Best of the blogs
Weekly round-up of the top legal blogosphere posts
Fieldfisher launches in Austria
Opportunity for UK juniors to spend time in Vienna as part of their professional development
ITV calls on top Blackstone barrister to investigate Schofield affair
Jane Mulcahy KC will review the network's records and consider whether its current policies need to change
Student born in jail to study law at Harvard
Sky Castner's application reportedly began 'I was born in prison'
US lawyer apologises after using fake cases made by ChatGPT
AI limitations exposed
BCLP becomes latest City firm to boost support for new lawyer parents
Follows similar move by Clydes
The transformation of corporate law through the 90s and into the new millennium
Podcast: Ex-Magic Circle partner Alan Paul delves into his time as a top City dealmaker in the period that witnessed the rise of New Labour, the dot-com bubble and the Y2K bug 🎙️
Could robots replace junior lawyers?
Solicitor Baljinder Singh Atwal takes a look at five legal tasks that could be done by technology
Bristows to open Dublin office
Ensures access to new patent court opening next month