Tag: Solicitors

Legal profession doesn’t rate Tory manifesto pledge to scrap Human Rights Act

Anger as Conservatives promise Bill of Rights and to reduce power of European Court of Human Rights -- oh, and hint at more legal aid cuts

Apr 14 2015 7:27pm

Yet another copyright infringement has surfaced on Twitter

Is Tesos Express the best example yet of cheeky local retailers tweaking the tails of national and multinational behemoths -- and will they get away with it?

Apr 14 2015 3:16pm

16 reasons why Doughty Street’s Tunde Okewale is the most followed barrister on Instagram

Amal Clooney's chambers colleague is rocking the Insta-verse

Apr 14 2015 9:32am

Labour politicians don’t want to talk about their vague legal aid manifesto pledge on Twitter

Key opposition figures fail to respond to leading legal tweeter David Allen Green

Apr 13 2015 7:19pm

Legal aid lawyers depicted as menage a trois loving superheroes in lobbying film

City law firms back star-studded cast in its pre-general election bid to alert public to dangers of cuts to system

Apr 13 2015 12:21pm

Law firm trainee diversity on the up, according to regulator’s figures

Smaller practices are outpacing larger firms, but across the board the profession is more diverse than the wider population

Apr 10 2015 4:53pm

The Judge Rules: Why the Law Society won’t stick up for solicitor-advocates

A Bar Council report flayed solicitor-advocates for being rubbish and Chancery Lane sat on its hands -- all because it needs to keep barristers on side in the war to save criminal legal aid

Apr 10 2015 12:18pm

Is there an unexploded Nazi bomb under your law firm?

Release of online bombing map of the London Blitz shows some of the world’s biggest names in corporate law could be at risk of being blown to kingdom come

Apr 10 2015 9:19am

Legal profession fused through back door – and it’s the bar that left it open

In a landmark move, barristers’ regulator gears up to authorise 15 new “entities” that look and smell a lot like solicitors’ firms -- and will compete with them

Apr 9 2015 2:49pm

City law firm associates and partners set to coin it in looming salary war

Survey of top 100 practices shows major threat to profits in battle for top talent against backdrop of continuing client pressure on fees

Apr 9 2015 12:33pm

Revealed: how law school fees have spiralled far beyond rate of inflation since the millennium

Some institutions are charging 150% more than the rate of inflation for the two courses required to qualify as solicitors and barristers

Apr 9 2015 9:34am

Bar blasts solicitors for ‘dumbing down’ Crown Court advocacy — and calls for legal execs to be barred

Knife fight looms between three branches of the profession following release of inflammatory Bar Council report

Apr 8 2015 1:42pm

Lawyer uses lego to reveal the artist inside

"There was nothing wrong with me being a lawyer, but I always knew there was another me, an Artist Me, lurking inside"

Apr 8 2015 12:55pm

Could festival toilets law be the hot new practice area of 2015?

From Glasto to the Isle of Wight, banks of portaloos hide a potential minefield of accidents and personal injury litigation, says England’s newest lavatory law specialist

Apr 8 2015 11:10am

Only 66% of qualifying lawyers to remain at King & Wood Mallesons

King & Wood Mallesons will keep just 12 out of 18 qualifying trainees

Apr 7 2015 3:48pm

Research shows in-house lawyers pushed to the brink of illegality

Young lawyers might fancy the nine-to-five routine of corporate legal departments, but an ethical swamp awaits

Apr 7 2015 1:54pm

These aren’t drafting tips … Prof sends students anal beads porn link in email fail‏

Philadelphia law school of many expensive names investigates how a link to Porn Hub was included in helpful guide to students

Apr 7 2015 12:46pm

8 top English uni law faculties dropped from Singapore bar approved institution list

Cries of protectionism ring out as Russell Group stars are axed

Apr 7 2015 9:41am

The Judge rules: thank-you, Weil, for exposing work-life balance charade

Big law firms should be honest with their junior lawyers about what life is like at a top-tier practice: the money is great but it's hard work

Apr 3 2015 11:54am

Lawyer to take part in arctic rugby world record attempt

Eversheds associate will strap on his snow shoes and trek 100 miles to play rugby at the north pole in charity world record attempt

Apr 2 2015 3:12pm

Global law firm apologises for April Fool promising better work-life balance

Associates at Weil Gotshal’s offices around the world are fuming at ham-fisted bid by the senior partnership to take the piss out of work-life balance issues

Apr 2 2015 11:41am