The Law Society Archives - Legal Cheek

Pride 2019: Lawyers take to London’s streets to celebrate LGBT+ rights

Pride Jubilee marked half-century since Stonewall uprising

Jul 8 2019 12:47pm
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Law Society likes tweet criticising SRA’s new digital badge

Then unlikes it

Dec 7 2018 3:20pm
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Law Society to rent out chunk of Chancery Lane HQ as major refurbishment plans are given go-ahead

Still no word on cost

Oct 11 2018 8:44am
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Criminal defence solicitors face extinction, warns Law Society

Lack of young lawyers entering the field has left justice system facing a ‘cliff edge scenario’

Apr 17 2018 11:47am
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Law Society fails to strike out negligence claim after bogus firm appeared on ‘Find a Solicitor’ database

Case can now go to trial

Aug 31 2017 1:14pm
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Training contract numbers soar to highest level since financial crash

Places up two years on the bounce for the first time since the financial crash

Jun 5 2017 3:10pm
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Research: Female solicitors are earning 20% less than their male colleagues

Latest Law Society stats suggest gender pay gap is still a problem within the profession

Sep 21 2016 10:57am
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Lord Harley’s claim for ‘interim relief’ against Law Society struck out by High Court

“Harry Potter” lawyer was seeking to restrain the release of six closed files under a freedom of information request

Apr 27 2016 5:43pm
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The Law Society has just wasted £7 million on a failed business venture — here is what they could have spent it on

Independent review reveals a catalogue of errors led to conveyance software flop

Apr 5 2016 12:11pm
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The legal sector boom: Lawyers responsible for 8,000 additional jobs

But what are they, exactly?

Mar 22 2016 3:00pm
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Video: ‘Oh bollocks!’ MP’s outburst over suggestion that Brexit will cost the legal services market £1.7 billion

Former justice minister Jonathan Djanogly’s suggestion didn’t go down well with one MP

Mar 8 2016 5:23pm
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Law Society says students should be paid at least national minimum wage for legal work experience

New best practice guidance states unpaid placements should last no longer than four weeks

Feb 24 2016 4:13pm
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Solicitor super-exam could ‘devalue’ and ‘dumb down’ the law

Legal establishment comes out against plan to scrap LPC and open firms to non-graduates

Feb 16 2016 3:49pm
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Revealed: the areas of the country where trainee solicitors are paid the least

South West is best — avoid the rest, apart from the City

Feb 12 2016 12:10pm
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Big Four accountancy giants are expanding their legal services arms globally — and solicitors are getting worried

EY now has lawyers in over 29 countries; while Deloitte Legal is cracking China

Jan 28 2016 1:14pm
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Law Society chief says solicitor super-exam could benefit ‘wealthier’ students

Claim made that central assessment could “promote nepotism”

Dec 11 2015 4:48pm
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Law Society bigwigs sample culinary delights in MasterChef challenge

Solicitor reps’ grand Chancery Lane HQ was the setting for latest round of hit BBC cookery show

Dec 10 2015 1:04pm
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The legal profession has just set a trainee solicitor minimum wage that is higher than the one it scrapped — but it’s unenforceable

New recommended minimum wage for trainee solicitors is £20,276 in London and £18,183 elsewhere

Nov 11 2015 1:30pm
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City solicitor keeps it brief in rhyming bid to woo voters for top young lawyer post

If only general election manifestoes were this simple

Jun 1 2015 4:15pm
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Law Society President: Women Lawyers Who Work Flexibly At City Firms Are ‘Put Onto The Slow Stream’

Law Society president Lucy Scott-Moncrieff raised eyebrows in the City last week when she suggested…

Jan 23 2013 4:28pm
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Black History Month At The Law Society, Featuring Convicted Expenses Cheat Baron Taylor of Warwick

As the Law Society’s Black History Month celebrations got underway on Monday, it was a…

Oct 17 2012 11:28am
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