‘Don’t give up on a career in legal aid’ lawyers urge students, as government reveals firms doing publicly funded work has fallen by 20%
Cautious optimism the tide will turn
Legal aid
You can now do a training contract funded by Children in Need
Social welfare solicitor scheme offers more places than ever
London law firm denies knowledge of advert for trainee solicitor job that pays just £10k
You’d earn double that in Aldi, and five times at other outfits
‘It should shame us all’: Why Charlie Gard’s parents were not entitled to legal aid
Government’s destruction of public funding budget takes spotlight
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
‘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
‘Ambulance chasing’ lawyer Phil Shiner declared bankrupt, weeks after he sold house to Middlesex University law lecturer daughter
Bethany Shiner and sister Leisha both used to work for their dad’s now defunct law firm
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The life of a serious crime QC
From representing footballer John Terry to acting in the Hillsborough Inquests and the Child Sex Abuse Inquiry, there are few dull moments for Serjeants’ Inn’s Chris Daw QC
First batch of ‘incredibly lucky’ sponsored legal aid trainees become solicitors
Three-quarters stay on
Solicitor of the Year turned ‘army ambulance chaser’ is struck off
The ultimate fall from grace
Legal aid pay row: Doughty Street QC rounds on claims lawyers’ earnings have ‘rocketed’
Publicly funded barristers still broke, says publicly funded barrister
Legal profession’s defence of Phil Shiner dries up as ‘ambulance chasing’ lawyer admits misconduct
Human rights solicitor accepts tribunal “must strike him off”
Lawyers disappointed with Liz Truss’ radical ‘Transforming Our Justice System’ paper, which doesn’t mention legal aid once
£1 billion cash injection for modernisation of courts, zilch for legal aid
Lawyers urge new PM and Justice Secretary to review legal aid ‘at the earliest opportunity’
Sincere plea from some of the country’s leading legal aid lawyers
Lawyers champion ‘recyclable’ fund to finance civil cases where legal aid can’t
If you win your case, some of your damages go back into the fund
Lawyers vs Grayling: Supreme Court case concluded halfway through hearing in shocking legal first
Was the government’s policy so bad the court didn’t even wait until the end of the hearing to strike it down?
Gove ditches plan to have City lawyers subsidise courts
City tax was floated to replace cash generated from the controversial court charge ditched last year
Tax City lawyers to help the legal aid crisis, says founder of top legal aid firm
Human rights solicitor defends Michael Gove’s legal levy idea
Number of criminal solicitors set to rise as Michael Gove has a major change of heart
Weren’t the government meant to be cutting the number of criminal law firms a few weeks ago?
Stop chasing the pot of gold: there’s no future for wannabe criminal lawyers
You’ll earn more money working down the pub
Legal aid is a ‘basic human right’ not an ‘economic benefit’, says Jeremy Corbyn
Lawyers lap up Jezza
Crime doesn’t pay: Students who opt for bar glamour careers will always earn way less than kids who choose safe corporate route
Thinking of a career at the criminal bar? You could be over £40,000 better off working in Aldi
Law students giving legal advice is becoming ever more a thing as BPP clinic gets official quality mark
Are law students the new legal aid lawyers?
Ministry of Justice has a fight on its hands as judicial review challenge by legal aid firms gets green light
Lawyers triumph in preliminary hearing
Legal aid lawyers are running rings around plodding civil servants in latest cuts battle
By hiring people with no legal expertise to put its new post-cuts framework in place, the Ministry of Justice has left itself exposed
‘If you can, stick at it’: Jeremy Corbyn tells students to reject commercial law and pursue legal aid dreams
Labour leader pledges to restore justice funding if elected
Mysterious barrister lifts lid on cocaine-fuelled life at the bar
Courts are apparently full of coke-head lawyers ogling jury members
Bristol corporate law firms club together to pay for a legal aid trainee
Michael Gove is going to love this
Michael Gove wants to tax City lawyers and use money for legal aid
Speculation that 1% levy on turnover of top 100 firms could be introduced
Temps on £9.30 an hour decide which legal aid firms survive, claims whistleblower
Full statement of ex-bid assessor emerges online
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