Author: Katie King

How religion has fallen, for law to take its place
Philip Wood, a QC and former Allen & Overy partner, pens book on why lawyers are the new priests

Wannabe barrister who overcame anorexia to study law at Oxford now crowdfunding her Cambridge masters degree
She hopes to raise £10,000 after spending childhood in care

Student pro bono: New projects on autism, family courts and miscarriages of justice up for awards
Birmingham University storms shortlists with nominations in most categories

Lady Hale was on MasterChef last night
Supreme Court president sampled fish dishes alongside space scientists and women's rights campaigners

‘Skinny ties are for Hoxton bars’: We review the former BLP trainee’s fashion advice so controversial the firm banned it
Katherine Cousins, now an associate, turned her tips into a book

Junior criminal barrister, 32, now youngest Crown Court judge in recent history
Rise of the baby-faced bench, as 34-year-old appointed as a district judge

You can now Skype a Supreme Court justice
Lady Hale says she's looking forward to chatting to students in new outreach programme

Deadline for gender pay gap reporting is today — here’s how law firms have done
The outfits with the biggest (and smallest) pay gaps in the City

This Westminster law student has THREE MILLION Instagram followers
Most followed law student in the country to forsake full-time modelling career for legal academia

Lady Hale will appear on MasterChef this week
From judging cases to judging cooking

SRA will not relax its rules for students caught up in university strikes
As students fight for compensation over lost lectures

‘I have two law degrees, now I sell juice made from wonky fruit for a living’
Maciek Kacprzyk on why he made the move from law to sustainable food production

The partner problem means law firm gender pay gap stats are pretty useless
A clutter of results impossible to compare

Oxford law student overcomes legal dispute with Facebook to launch contract law revision app
He came up with the idea while revising for exams

‘When I interviewed for Slaughter and May I was living as a man called Matthew, by the time I started my training contract I was a woman called Clare’
Legal Cheek interviews transgender lawyer Clare Fielding

Exclusive: BPP Liverpool is closing
Students to be compensated as law school shuts doors in June

Clifford Chance reveals 44% gender pay gap – but figure includes mega-earning partners
First firm to calculate its salary statistic in this way

There’s now a ‘Secret Solicitor’ on the Twitter scene
The Secret Barrister moniker inspires law firm counterpart, but tells Legal Cheek he doubts he'll be as successful

Allen & Overy launches ‘lawtech training contract’
STEM students preferred

Aspiring barrister, 16, who won a coffee with Lady Hale shares dream of being the next Lord Pannick
He also had lunch with Lord Hodge as part of his student essay competition victory