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

Being innovative counts towards billable targets, CMS tells lawyers
Follows similar creativity-boosting moves by Reed Smith and Mishcon de Reya

ULaw partners with quizzing app to give students flavour of SQE
Aspiring lawyers can tailor tests to target weaknesses

SRA to make decision on SQE1 skills assessment in New Year
Feedback from spring pilot advised it be ditched

Lawtech could cull 35,000 legal roles by 2027, Law Society predicts
Secretaries hardest hit -- but lawyer numbers likely to rise

Snapchat flirting judge allegedly had group sex in chambers
She denies allegations
Clifford Chance teaches ALL trainee solicitors how to build apps
Magic circle rookies get their geek on in four-hour hackathon

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

Former Baker McKenzie London boss admits harassing junior lawyer
But denies it was an abuse of his position

Lawtech fuels UK legal sector growth, industry report finds
Revenues hit £35.5 billion in 2018 -- a year-on-year increase of 6%

Gowling WLG lawyers step in after Santa’s workshop threatened with closure
Seasonal spoof video sees Mr Claus accused of licence breach

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

Tributes pour in for Manchester Uni law grad killed in London terror attack
'A champion for underdogs everywhere'

BARBRI ramps up SQE preparations with acquisition of legal training provider Kaplan Altior
Solicitor super-exam ambitions underlined

Former Freshfields partner arrested in tax probe
A week after quitting magic circle firm

Ex-Appeal judge reveals she was once rejected by chambers over fear male barristers would ‘make passes’ at her
Tenants' wives wouldn’t like it, Dame Elizabeth Gloster told

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

Half of judges will be women by 2033, Lady Hale predicts
'We’ve done the sums'

Lawyer killed by loaded shotgun submitted into evidence
Freak accident occurred at a court in South Africa

British lawtech entrepreneur launches AI tool that identifies ‘loopholes’ in contracts
Taking the torment out of T&Cs?

BSB boosts minimum pay for pupil barristers following annual review
£18,866 in London and £16,322 elsewhere -- from 1 January 2020