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What the global economy of the 2020s has in store for lawyers

Three experts from Osborne Clarke reflect on the latest trends and how the legal landscape will look in the next decade

Nov 21 2019 2:12pm

BSB boosts minimum pay for pupil barristers following annual review

£18,866 in London and £16,322 elsewhere -- from 1 January 2020

Nov 21 2019 8:48am

Lawtech is here to help lawyers — not replace them

Ahead of Legal Cheek’s latest careers event, ‘How tech is changing law and business’, we sit down with Herbert Smith Freehills senior associate Kushal Bhimjiani

Nov 20 2019 12:06pm

Two months into her training contract and Eve Cornwell reveals what magic circle trainee life is like

Busy rush hour commutes, free breakfast, two mobile phones and getting to grips with time recording

Nov 19 2019 10:51am

Why the SQE could be ‘the best thing to happen to university legal education in decades’

The head of Leicester De Montfort Law School, Professor Kevin Bampton, welcomes the scrapping of the LPC

Nov 19 2019 9:13am

Some pieces of wisdom for future lawyers to take with them as they apply for TCs

Advice from BARBRI, Hill Dickinson, Irwin Mitchell, Linklaters and Pinsent Masons

Nov 18 2019 2:04pm

City lawyers are just like people selling fruit on a market stall

Phil Sanderson, co-chair of the global private equity transactions group at Ropes & Gray, gives his own take on commercial awareness

Nov 15 2019 1:00pm

STEM Future Lawyers and BPP launch 2020 GDL scholarship

Applications now open for science students interested in law

Nov 15 2019 11:00am

The climate crisis and the role of lawyers

A trio of Burges Salmon lawyers explain how the push towards a greener economy is affecting their clients

Nov 14 2019 2:51pm

Will my BTEC stop me getting a training contract with a top firm?

'Any help would be appreciated'

Nov 14 2019 10:24am

BPP confirms new bar course will be over £5,000 cheaper than current BPTC

£13,870 in London and £12,620 elsewhere

Nov 14 2019 8:57am

‘Mobile phones were big black boxes and only four of us had a computer’

Michael Luckman, an intellectual property partner at Gowling WLG, reflects on trainee life in the eighties

Nov 13 2019 12:56pm

Legal Services Board: super-exam isn’t a done deal

Super-regulator flags concerns over quality and cost

Nov 13 2019 10:46am

Law students to be taught meditation to prepare for workplace stress

New initiatives will also include online 'mindfulness' module

Nov 13 2019 8:47am

The solicitor super-exam and the opportunities ahead for aspiring lawyers

Victoria Cromwell, head of SQE at BARBRI, discusses lawtech and legal education

Nov 12 2019 2:07pm

Privacy, celebrities and the media

It's a fine balance between the freedom of the press and the privacy of individuals, says newly qualified solicitor Aisha Hussain

Nov 12 2019 10:10am
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Why I joined a US law firm in London

Ahead of Wednesday’s event, ‘The rise of US law firms in London’, we speak to Shearman & Sterling lawyer Jonathan Swil

Nov 11 2019 3:03pm

Super-exam could damage ‘credibility’ of solicitor qualification, junior lawyers warn

JLD urges super-regulator to think carefully before giving new exam final sign-off

Nov 11 2019 10:57am