Keir Starmer QC turns down Mishcon de Reya job
Labour MP and Shadow Brexit Sec declines City advisory role owing to ‘other commitments’
Barristers
Freshfields partner who joined the firm in 1984 reveals he’s quitting to pursue pupillage dream
Competition litigation expert Jon Lawrence is Brick Court bound
Barrister who was disbarred after forging Lady Hale letter sued for £200,000 by ex-client
Alexander Mercouris has reinvented himself as a Russian commentator, his former client isn’t happy about this
Attorney General to throw Hawaiian ‘Summer Beach Party’ at government law offices
Grass skirts at the ready
Put a cork in it! Mail Online expresses shock at ‘barristers earning £300,000 a year’ recommending budget supermarket wine
Tabloid picked up on comments made by two lawyers in Counsel Magazine
Another Doughty Street barrister gets the tabloid treatment
Jennifer Robinson caught in crossfire as newspapers target key Labour figure
BSB balls-up: 26 bar students see marks changed following ethics exam ‘clerical errors’ chaos
Regulator has now told providers to release results
Asylum seeker turned solicitor who only qualified in 2016 wins immigration lawyer of the year
Baroness Doreen Lawrence handed out gongs at yesterday’s legal aid awards
Judge Rinder declares he loves fan selfies, so here are some of our favourites of his
Features photos with Take That, fellow lawyers, and the Legal Cheek team
Inner Temple to build ‘education and training centre’ for wannabe barristers
Radical redevelopment includes 120-seat lecture theatre and break out spaces
I want to be a barrister but now I’ve been offered a training contract — what do I do?
This is a life-changing decision for me
Child abuse inquiry acted ‘appropriately and proportionately’ when its lead lawyer was accused of sexual assault
Ben Emmerson QC denies the allegations
‘This should alarm everyone’: Social media rages as ex-Court of Appeal judge appointed to lead Grenfell Tower inquiry
But legal Twitterati describes the hate as ‘absolutely senseless’
There’s less office politics in law than any other industry, new research finds
Nearly a third of survey respondents thought engaging in water cooler tittle-tattle will help further their careers
Hendron v Hendron: ‘Drug addict’ barrister evicted from lawyer twin’s Covent Garden flat after High Court injunction battle
Richard also ‘sacked’ Henry from his law firm after finding ‘quantity of drugs in the office’
Over 60% of BPTC grads don’t have pupillage, new stats show
As enrolments on the vocational course drop by 7%
Top criminal chambers forced to rebrand as old premises become luxury apartments
9-12 Bell Yard now Foundry Chambers
I got in trouble for arguing with a pro-life campaigner at school, now I’m a barrister in the Northern Irish abortion law case
Supreme Court ruled in Jeremy Hunt’s favour this week, now all eyes are on Strasbourg
‘They tried to get lawyers’: Devastating cuts to legal aid prevented Grenfell Tower residents accessing advice over safety concerns
Legal profession offers pro bono support to blaze victims
Open thread: What’s it like to be a barrister?
Share your experiences with the next generation of bar wannabes below the line
Doughty Street silk Keir Starmer is the ‘right person’ to get us a Brexit deal, says The Independent
Newspaper backs Labour MP over Tory David Davis
Exclusive: The Inns of Court are preparing to launch a new BPTC
Inns ‘seriously considering’ new course, but will they go it alone or get a university involved?
A poem: ‘Oh, I wish I’d looked after me brief!’
Legal Cheek’s resident funny man Wigapedia returns with an ode to barristers’ briefs
Freshfields, Clifford Chance, BLP, Ashurst and DWF lawyers among 300 to offer support following Manchester bombing pro bono appeal
Twenty-two people were killed and dozens injured after suicide bomber targeted Ariana Grande gig
High Court judge ‘kissed on the cheek’ during Middle Temple Lane robbery, court hears
Sir Robin Knowles QC was allegedly mugged by man clutching champagne bottle stolen from chambers
BSB approves shared parental leave scheme for self-employed barristers
Regulator hopes the move will encourage more gender diversity within the profession
Brexit: Jolyon Maugham’s Irish High Court challenge has been discontinued
QC crowdfunded £70,000
Snap election series: The bar is ‘excellent groundwork’ for life as an MP, says lawyer turned Conservative candidate
Suella Fernandes shares her thoughts from the campaign trail
Barristers and football agents team up to kick off new ‘innovative’ legal business
VII Law becomes the bar’s first licensed ABS
Revealed: 60% of lawyers think visible tattoos are not acceptable in their firms and chambers
Could we see a discrimination case in the near future?
Exclusive: There are 16,000 barristers currently practising, just 110 have criminal convictions
A third of these were for drink driving
Pro bono appeal: Manchester Law Society calls on lawyers to help victims of arena terrorist attack
Twenty-two people killed after suicide bomber targeted Ariana Grande concert
London Legal Walk: Lawyers descend on sun-soaked capital for annual 10km charity event
Here are some of the best bits
The Trial: Lawyers react to new docudrama starring real QCs and an ex-Old Bailey judge
‘First major inaccuracy, it started on time’
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15 great reactions to today’s Supreme Court tribunal fees ruling 
The sobering reality of being charged with a crime 
‘It should shame us all’: Why Charlie Gard’s parents were not entitled to legal aid 
Revealed: the law firms that trainees and junior lawyers most admire 
A law student shares his last-minute TC application pain
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