Author: Aishah Hussain

BPP sold to private equity giant
TDR Capital snaps up education provider

Nottingham Law School unveils SQE prep course prices
£8k combined cost for law grads

DLA Piper targets 30% global female partnership by 2025
Linklaters ups gender diversity target after missing previous aim

Holiday counts towards billable hours, Orrick tells London lawyers
US firm to credit 40 hours of bonus-eligible time to encourage lawyers to truly 'unplug' for a week

Top lockdown concern among pupil barristers? A lack of networking opportunities
'Zoom events just don't cut it'

SRA reveals further SQE exam dates
Confirmation of sittings beyond transitional years for 2023/4

A&O anticipates 40% home-working after lockdown
Office will remain ‘incredibly important’ for culture and personal development, says magic circle firm

Linklaters in-house tech start-up takes on firm trainees
Six-month seat option forms part of magic circle outfit’s training contract programme

Freshfields latest to let lawyers work from home up to half the time
Interim measure includes trainees

Trainees slam remote-working
"All the old farts who bang on about WFH being 'the future' need to read this"

Clifford Chance latest law firm to dish out COVID bonuses to all lawyers and staff
Follows similar moves made by HSF, Simmons and Bevan Brittan

Linklaters adopts code to protect employees with afro hair
‘Hair discrimination remains a source of racial injustice for black people in the UK’, says magic circle firm

Junior lawyer mental health hit hardest by lockdown, research reveals
When compared with WFH experience of senior solicitors

Linklaters sets sights on becoming first magic circle law firm in Dublin
Discussions at very early stage

Ex-magic circle lawyer who brought £1 million claim against Oxford Uni over ‘inadequate’ teaching now sues wealthy parents for life-long maintenance grant
Faiz Siddiqui, 41, claims he's dependent on parents due to health issues

HSF appoints first female senior partner
M&A specialist Rebecca Maslen-Stannage takes up new role from 1 May

Hogan Lovells opens Dublin office
Doesn't rule out training contract and secondment opportunities in Ireland

World law school rankings: Harvard beats Oxbridge again
Ivy League player outperforms UK counterparts for fourth consecutive year

Supreme Court gets a new female judge
Lady Justice Rose joins UK's top bench next month

SDT rejects allegations of misconduct against former Hong Kong Law Society president
Junius Kwan-yiu Ho found not to have incited violence during public meeting

Attorney General makes history as first cabinet minister to take maternity leave
Overhaul of 'outdated' rules made move possible