Author: Alex Aldridge
MoneyLaw could be the new Magic Circle
£124,000 newly qualified rate may prove a London game-changer
Latham & Watkins London office latest to up NQ pay to £124k as US salary war rocks UK
Megafirm follows UK arms of Kirkland and Millbank into 'MoneyLaw'
BPP University student wins BARBRI Global Financial Crime Blogging Prize
Recent graduates from Trinity College Dublin and Essex University highly acclaimed
Bad news for paralegals: High Court says predictive coding can be used for document review
Artificial intelligence-based technique given green light
City law firm brings in emotional intelligence training to ward off threat from robots
EQ to trump IQ in age of AI
‘I will no longer support your Chambers’: Top judge’s incredible letter to elite set Blackstone emerges in bias row
The full letter by Mr Justice Peter Smith revealed, as he is barred from hearing Blackstone barristers' cases
BPTC satisfaction survey results: student happiness surprisingly unrelated to chances of pupillage success
Bar course experience better in the regions -- even if life afterwards often isn't
LPC satisfaction survey results: Students happiest at the smaller providers
Mood brighter outside the big two
GDL satisfaction survey results: Nottingham and City beat ULaw and BPP
Graduate Diploma in Law students are actually reasonably happy
DWF launches apprenticeship that stops at paralegal level
Unlike some other law firm school-leaver schemes, course will not extend to qualification as a solicitor
Top barrister slams ‘delicate Oxford flowers’ as uni’s law faculty gives ‘trigger warnings’ before lectures about violent cases
Students can leave if content is too distressing
Women partners: Eversheds smashes 25% gender diversity target as CMS and Norton Rose Fulbright eye 30%
The demographics of megafirms are changing
Social mobility work experience scheme pledges to stay closer to students as chair passes from Allen & Overy to Hogan Lovells
PRIME seeks to move to next level after giving 4,000 kids City law placements in five years
Law school satisfaction survey — rate your GDL/LPC/BPTC
How good is your postgraduate legal training?
*Scrapping Human Rights Act facepalm*
Patrick Stewart appears in comedy pro-ECHR video, but not all lawyers are impressed
DWF’s bid to clawback LPC fees from ex-trainee could be unenforceable restraint of trade
Questions arise over legal status of firm's lock-in clause
Rich parents blocked from buying kids legal work experience as magic circle firms withdraw from charity auction
Allen & Overy and Freshfields in significant U-turn
Is a 2:1 the new 2:2 for law students?
Miss out on Oxbridge and it's increasingly a first class degree or bust if you want to make it to the bar or the magic circle
Disbarred: Constance Briscoe’s legal career is officially over
She had quite a ride
Revealed: the universities which give you the best chance of making it to the top of the magic and silver circle
Oxbridge dominates, but there are some surprises
Official Solicitor to the Senior Courts appears as litigant-in-person in private dispute
Exclusive: Alastair Pitblado and his fiancée in High Court today -- acting for themselves in £150k planning row