Author: Thomas Connelly

Revealed: The best law firms for peer support and partner approachability 2019-20

Winner to be announced at the Legal Cheek Awards on 26 March 2020, alongside a host of other categories

Dec 13 2019 9:41am

Being innovative counts towards billable targets, CMS tells lawyers

Follows similar creativity-boosting moves by Reed Smith and Mishcon de Reya

Dec 12 2019 10:30am

ULaw partners with quizzing app to give students flavour of SQE

Aspiring lawyers can tailor tests to target weaknesses

Dec 12 2019 8:48am

SRA to make decision on SQE1 skills assessment in New Year

Feedback from spring pilot advised it be ditched

Dec 11 2019 8:53am

Lawtech could cull 35,000 legal roles by 2027, Law Society predicts

Secretaries hardest hit -- but lawyer numbers likely to rise

Dec 10 2019 10:29am

Clifford Chance teaches ALL trainee solicitors how to build apps

Magic circle rookies get their geek on in four-hour hackathon

Dec 9 2019 9:15am

Clifford Chance launches business internship for future trainees

New scheme will see vac scheme places reduced but additional open days introduced for penultimate-year students

Dec 6 2019 9:54am

Former Baker McKenzie London boss admits harassing junior lawyer

But denies it was an abuse of his position

Dec 5 2019 11:15am

Lawtech fuels UK legal sector growth, industry report finds

Revenues hit £35.5 billion in 2018 -- a year-on-year increase of 6%

Dec 5 2019 8:49am

Gowling WLG lawyers step in after Santa’s workshop threatened with closure

Seasonal spoof video sees Mr Claus accused of licence breach

Dec 3 2019 12:15pm

City law firm ‘consortium’ appoints BPP as SQE prep-course provider

Influential group's future trainees will sit super-exam from autumn 2022 -- a year after assessment's proposed introduction

Dec 3 2019 9:05am

Former Freshfields partner arrested in tax probe

A week after quitting magic circle firm

Nov 28 2019 12:10pm

Skype hearings require ‘more careful thought’ — regardless of benefit to barristers

'Communicating with someone on a screen just isn’t the same', says Bar Council bigwig Athena Markides

Nov 25 2019 1:30pm

Lawyer killed by loaded shotgun submitted into evidence

Freak accident occurred at a court in South Africa

Nov 25 2019 8:52am

BSB boosts minimum pay for pupil barristers following annual review

£18,866 in London and £16,322 elsewhere -- from 1 January 2020

Nov 21 2019 8:48am