Author: Thomas Connelly

‘I was no longer able to cope’: Junior solicitor who backdated 23 letters ‘to buy time’ is struck off
She’d only been qualified for three years

Akin Gump ups London NQ pay to coveted £143,000
Follows moves by Kirkland & Ellis, Milbank and Simpson Thacher

Accountancy giant Deloitte enters legal services market
Final member of the 'Big Four' granted ABS licence

University of Leeds criminal justice lecturer crowned ‘Law Teacher of the Year’
Lydia Bleasdale beats competition from top unis including Cambridge, Durham and Queen’s Belfast

London law firm events planner banned after keeping raffle prizes
She worked for Bircham Dyson Bell

Six spacetech start-ups to join Dentons innovation hub
Satellite propulsion system and farming robots among successful applicants

MP slams Allen & Overy over refusal to ‘come clean’ on partner gender pay gap data
As Freshfields and Slaughter and May reveal figures to select committee

Mayer Brown confirms 80% autumn trainee retention score
International outfit keeps eight of its ten NQs

British ‘lawyer’ twins convicted of assault following attack on Dubai police officer
London law grads face deportation

Fieldfisher dismisses stock market flotation rumours
Days after DWF confirmed it was considering a similar move

‘Lawyers are like plumbers — both will be immune from the tech revolution’
The legal profession's 'Uber moment' is a long way off, FT says

Kirkland & Ellis ups London NQ salaries to £143,000
Follows moves by US players Milbank and Simpson Thacher

More than half of all new trainees are based in London
But training contract numbers remain static since last year

Footballer Patrice Evra slammed for ‘patronising’ Slaughter and May junior lawyer over her World Cup analysis
He literally applauded Eniola Aluko's football knowledge

DWF set to make legal history with £1 billion London Stock Exchange flotation
Global giant's top brass could be handed £10 million share windfall... each!

Slaughter and May lawyer scores World Cup punditry role
Associate consultant and footballer Eniola Aluko heads to Russia

City trainee confession: ‘I earn £45,000 a year and spend obscene amounts on ASOS — but my mum still pays my phone bill’
Money diary of a corporate rookie revealed

Young law firm partner jailed after he tricked ex-S&M dungeon master into thinking he’d won £700,000 damages from Channel 4
Andrew Davies was struck off in 2016 after taking client cash and forging documents to cover his tracks

Your favourite law memes could be banned under EU copyright directive
Brussels bigwigs could ‘destroy the internet as we know it’, say digital rights campaigners