Tag: Solicitors

Fake lawyer who was jailed for tricking high-ranking judges BANNED from profession

Mohammed Kabba received a 16 month custodial sentence last summer for pretending to be a solicitor during an immigration case

May 24 2016 1:26pm

Supreme Court REFUSES to hear Belgium-based White & Case lawyer’s case on why she should be able to vote in EU referendum

EU competition partner at US giant has no right to vote because she has lived outside the UK for more than 15 years

May 24 2016 12:45pm

Bad news for paralegals: High Court says predictive coding can be used for document review

Artificial intelligence-based technique given green light

May 20 2016 3:09pm

Top Manchester QC questions Andy Burnham’s claim that it’s harder for northerners to become lawyers

It's grim up north for law students, indicates Manchester mayoral hopeful

May 20 2016 12:16pm

10 City lawyers named in ‘Power 100 Women’ list

List celebrates Square Mile's most influential women

May 19 2016 12:47pm

Mr Justice Peter Smith is BARRED from hearing Addleshaw Goddard cases

The battle continues as list of firms and lawyers over whom he can no longer adjudicate grows and grows

May 18 2016 1:54pm

The best pictures from the London Legal Walk

Policemen on stilts and lots and lots of dogs

May 17 2016 12:16pm

Advocacy charity launches Teach First for wannabe lawyers

Brand new grad scheme launched for barrister hopefuls

May 17 2016 9:22am

Event: Commercial Awareness Question Time: EU referendum special — with Shearman & Sterling

Top EU lawyers discuss vote implications; students ask the questions -- with 30 free places up for grabs

May 16 2016 3:08pm

Law groups unify to create mental health taskforce

The move comes as research earlier this year revealed more than a third of calls to charity helpline were from stressed-out junior lawyers

May 16 2016 11:08am

Capital’s lawyers limber up for London Legal Walk

All the legal celebs will be there

May 16 2016 8:57am

Liverpool anger as Hillsborough QC is nominated for ‘Barrister of the Year’

John Beggs QC targeted in local press and on social media

May 13 2016 4:05pm

Would you be sent home from a law firm for refusing to wear high heels?

Female lawyers’ need to look the part -- a pressure that won’t go away

May 12 2016 5:14pm

Vladimir Putin is poster boy for satirical anti-UK Snoopers’ Charter campaign

Russian President is joined by political leaders including Chinese President Xi Jinping appearing to endorse controversial bill

May 12 2016 12:38pm

Courtroom ‘selfie’ taker who uploaded group snap on Facebook slapped with £190 fine

The illegal photograph also captured the magistrates' legal adviser in the background

May 11 2016 1:55pm

Can you make it to the magic circle without a Russell Group degree?

And even if you do, will your partnership prospects be damaged?

May 11 2016 12:57pm

Flexi-working latest: Macfarlanes, Freshfields and White & Case join the ‘home-desking’ movement

But is the hot City trend of "agile working" simply a token gesture?

May 11 2016 11:35am

Mayoral Result: Lawyers 1; Old Etonians 0

Sadiq Khan nicks a goal back for the profession in centuries old battle with the privileged as to who should run country

May 10 2016 2:27pm