Author: Aishah Hussain
Fund legal aid training contracts and pupillages, MPs and peers urge government
Cross-party group call on SRA to include social welfare modules in new SQE
Lawyers pound the pavements for charity
Over 8,000 walkers went the distance at yesterday's London Legal Walk
NQ solicitor pay hits £140k at Cleary Gottlieb
Trainees handed substantial rises of £7,500
Viral TikTok of law student who continued moot comp despite passing out prompts debate over profession’s focus on resilience
Commenters warn of the dangers of 'glamourising' work ethic at the cost of health
‘Here’s to the return of in-person legal events’
Face-to-face gatherings are slowly returning — and this can only be a good thing, writes Legal Cheek’s features editor Aishah Hussain
Paul Hastings launches year-long legal innovation internship
Tie-up with Queen Mary University
Law Society calls on government to fund SQE loans as over 1,000 students enrol for first exam
New route likely to cost more than £20k, professional body warns
Eversheds launches legal tech grad scheme
Six spots up for grabs
Latham trainee looks to challenge LexisNexis and Westlaw with free case law hub
Will Chen's new site aims to make legal judgments more accessible to students whose studies may have been disrupted by lockdowns and library closures
Aspiring barrister who sought refuge alone in the UK at 17 launches campaign to help other young asylum seekers
Musa Nela received £3k ULaw grant to get initiative going
Apprentice star starts law degree at Bristol Uni
Former librarian and now fresher Lottie Lion says it's 'bizarre to even comprehend'
‘Pls fix, thx’: Is this the latest junior lawyer social media trend?
Rookies share pics correcting docs from weird and wonderful places
Goodwin boosts London trainee pay by 14% to £57,000
First years receive £52,000 -- up 13%
Legal aid: Are City lawyers best placed to plug the gap?
Shadow Justice Sec David Lammy's suggestion BigLaw should up pro bono efforts prompts split on Twitter
Over two-thirds of lawyers have suffered mental ill-health
Lawyer wellbeing charity LawCare calls for profession-wide change in new report
Big law firms love LinkedIn and YouTube, research finds
Twitter not so much
£6 million up for grabs as Inns open bar scholarship applications
You've got to be in it to win it 🤑
Ashurst targets 35% ethnic minority and 13% Black trainees
New targets to be met by 2026
Magistrate rebuked for calling junior barrister ‘huffy’ after she was mistaken for defendant three times in one day
Jacqueline Mitchell handed formal warning for 'ill judged' tweet