Author: CJ McKinney

COVID-19: Meet the Queen Mary law student working on the frontline
Megan Evers puts healthcare experience to good use during pandemic

Call for pupillage candidates to get more emotional support
Junior barrister Malvika Jaganmohan urges chambers to ditch 'rejection by silence' as she reflects on her own personal battles in candid blog post

Bar Council clarifies position on whether law centres are proper lawyers
Statement on coronavirus funding sparks commotion online

Surrey man ordered to hand over ‘sidleylawyers’ domain name to Sidley Austin
Anil Mannick wanted US law firm to pay him £2,400 for web address

Dechert partner refused stay in case against former client accused of spying on him
Latest development in tangled legal battle between Neil Gerrard and mining firm he used to represent

Lady Hale uses lockdown to write her memoirs
The former Supreme Court president has secured a two-book deal

Solicitor struck off after losing work briefcase launches appeal crowdfunder
Claire Louise Matthews now has a pro bono legal team after going unrepresented at disciplinary hearing

Don’t furlough staff to protect profits, ex-magic circle partner warns
Former Linklaters lawyer warns bosses not to leap straight for taxpayer cash

Paralegal loses job after saying Boris Johnson ‘completely deserves’ COVID-19
Criminal defence firm VHS Fletchers disowns former employee
Veteran family law barrister suspended for twice breaking family court injunction
Sami Ur Rahman convicted of breaching non-molestation order taken out by ex-girlfriend

Coronavirus has got nothing on the 2008 financial crisis, says ex-Clifford Chance boss
Tony Williams reckons the pandemic is less of a threat to law firms than the crash

Newly qualified solicitor struck off over lost work briefcase
Junior lawyer's fate was sealed when she lied to colleagues about the incident

Drunk deputy head of chambers headbutted junior female colleague outside Calvin Klein underwear store
Details of assault conviction for suspended Rashid Ahmed now revealed

Lawyers working from home urged to donate commute savings to COVID-19 charities
Herbert Smith Freehills associate says City professionals are inadvertently saving up to 13 quid a day

LPC exam delays will have ‘serious implications’ for training contract holders, junior lawyers warn
Junior Lawyers Division offers up alternatives including online exams and coursework

LPC and BPTC students urge regulators not to delay exams amid virus pandemic
Petitions demand that wannabe lawyers be allowed to take assessments at home

Criminal barristers ask for early billing to ease potential cashflow crises
Coronavirus: Criminal Bar Association wants barristers to be paid before trials are over

IBA: Assange treatment during extradition hearing ‘reminiscent of Abu Ghraib’ prison scandal
International Bar Assocation compares Wikileaks founder's 'mistreatment' to torture of Iraqi detainees

66-year-old solicitor removed from profession for trying to kiss teenage girl in pub
William Herbert Black struck off over 'thoroughly unpleasant incident'

How Donoghue v Stevenson can help prevent coronavirus
Reciting key passage from tort law classic hits recommended hand washing target of 20 seconds

Fox baseball bat QC avoids prosecution
RSPCA says that 'findings indicate the fox was killed swiftly' by Jolyon Maugham