Lawyers

Donald McGahn is a partner at the US giant’s Washington office

British music legend sadly passed away yesterday after 18-month battle with cancer

Dean Strang and Jerry Buting are the legal profession’s new poster boys (contains spoilers)

Lawyer overcomes cartoon characters in battle for kid’s affection

As London’s Underground strike takes hold, Legal Cheek asks junior lawyers: fancy shouting mind the gap?

Both firms adopt diversity tool after informally assessing recruits against it for last year

Freshfields and Allen & Overy are the remaining magic circle firms keeping trainees and newly-qualified solicitors on tenterhooks

Mid-tier international firm gives University of Law a boost in wake of sale to Netherlands-based conglomerate

If only general election manifestoes were this simple

Criminal and occupational health law specialists couldn’t outperform a mutt called Matisse

Kenyan-based young lawyer reckons 16-year-old Malia will fancy rediscovering her African roots — and he’s prepared to pay the going rate

Pensioner frustrated by crumbling US public defender service turns to a piece taxidermy for legal advice; lessons for UK legal aid?

Regulator releases details today of finding against 29-year-old former London South Bank University student

Anglo-US firm waves two fingers at UK deflation as it pumps up newly-qualified salaries by 7.5%

This solicitors’ outfit clearly wanted to get into the media with an easy PR stunt — so here’s the story

Is grabbing fish from a river with your bare hands a good way to build a legal practice? Possibly …

Wallabies call-up must be next for a man who practises in one of the most exotic and remote parts of the world

Women law students and young female lawyers doubtless have to battle leery male counterparts — but there are gradations of perviness

King of the establishment firm hits psychologically important £70k mark, but still trails well behind Yanks in City

When will the bubble burst? There are 190% more practising today than 30 years ago

Law firms can’t resist competing with each other — even over charity events, as a league table currently being updated on social media graphically illustrates

This expletive-fuelled — but strangely nearly cogent — notice to a US federal court judge may be the rudest official legal document ever

Exclusive: The very expensive fortnight may leave students in more debt and still jobless

Office block lobby in building that houses three leading law firms has been turned into dreamland for the film’s addicts

Further proof that Mail readers really, really hate lawyers

One Tory newbie barrister in standing in Hampshire, and our old friend the former telly producer turned Justice Secretary come in for flack

Tough conditions for wannabe solicitors continues — as stats show London tightens grip on training contract market

Will the intellectual property law teams at two supermarket giants leap into their panda cars to clamp down on these cheeky independents?

Tory safe seat man in bid to refute allegations that his claim to have headed a magic circle department is a big fat exaggeration

Slaughter and May pop star associate puts her firm in social media shadows with her latest catchy release

A recent rash of online efforts from the legal profession should be praised for effort, but they won’t reach their supposed target audiences

University of Adelaide today takes its specialist module to the launch pad warning of fears that it’s not that lonely in space after all

Light blues outstrip ancient rivals Oxford by £7,000, while LSE comes second and even the Scots get a look in

Lawyer and historian go hammer and tongs, while Twittersphere lambasts Law Society for dropping definite article clanger regarding the 800-year-old document

Anonymous London solicitor Corporate Drone goes where the graduate recruitment brochures definitely do not

Controversial plea from the ex-chairwoman of Bar Standards Board is bound agitate current barrister and solicitor leaders

Latest UK death research shows the legal profession beats bankers and generals by being keenest to splurge its way into the afterlife

Katie Hopkins and newspaper editor in line of fire as Society of Black Lawyers makes incitement to racial hatred complaint to police

There’s good news and bad in the figures — retention is rising, but overall training contracts numbers are still shrinking