Author: Thomas Connelly
Hardwicke to rebrand as Gatehouse Chambers after discovering name has slavery links
Lord Hardwicke was co-author of 1729 legal opinion relied upon by slave owners
Bakers lawyers and staff given option to work remotely up to three days a week
Varied start and finish times too
Weil dishes out £8k Covid bonuses to NQ lawyers
Extra cash for trainees and associates too
Largest law firm in the world trims lawyer numbers
Dentons lays off 85 UK employees, including 16 associates
Clyde & Co elects first female senior partner
Carolena Gordon takes up new role on 1 July
Freshfields dishes out bonuses following Covid salary freeze
Catch-up cash for UK lawyers and staff
Scottish law student cleared of wrongdoing following probe into ‘offensive’ gender comments
Abertay Uni student Lisa Keogh worries investigation may have impacted her grades
Super regulator sides with pupillage seekers in row over rejection by silence
Follows letter from wannabe barrister first reported by Legal Cheek
Family barrister suspended following ‘offensive and unacceptable’ Royal baby tweet
Joanna Toch apologises after ill-judged remark
Linklaters looks to slash emissions by up to 70%
Magic circle player latest to up its green efforts 🍃
Mills & Reeve kicks off autumn retention season with 100% score
All 19 trainees to stay put
US firm Paul Hastings tells London lawyers work from the office ‘by default’
From 7 September 🗓️
Asparagus recipe accidentally included in Belgian law database
'Bon Appétit!' read the final line
Henry Hendron avoids disbarment — again
Scandal-hit barrister reprimanded for continuing to work during suspension over drug offences
Ashurst appoints first female global chair
London partner Karen Davies takes top role from 1 August
Supreme Court launches paid internship for underrepresented aspiring barristers
Week-long scheme will see bar hopefuls shadow judicial assistants
Slaughter and May to allow trainees to work remotely one day a week
New policy enables 'majority' of staff to work away from the office up to 40% of the time
Take a Covid-19 test before coming into the office, Skadden tells unvaccinated London lawyers
Internal memo urges staff to get jabbed
Slaughters hands lawyers and staff Covid bonuses
Extra 5% 'in recognition of everybody’s hard work'