Author: Thomas Connelly

Exclusive: Government’s favourite silk Sir James Eadie QC pulls out of controversial work experience auction

Offer to sell work experience to the highest bidder in the name of social mobility pulled after Legal Cheek asks questions -- but other lawyers stick with online auction

Jun 11 2018 9:45am

Edinburgh Uni launches review after public law exam answer papers go missing

Students asked to submit new 500 word assessment instead

Jun 6 2018 11:35am

ULaw ramps up law degree offering with four new ‘specialist’ LLBs

Exclusive: Just days after BPP Law School increases focus on postgraduate vocational training market

Jun 1 2018 12:15pm

Reed Smith junior lawyers to receive performance feedback via phone app

As global outfit launches inter-office secondment opportunity

May 31 2018 11:29am

Pupillage award minimum to jump by as much as 40%

BSB brings rookie pay in line with living wage

May 30 2018 3:10pm

Criminal barristers to vote on £15 million legal aid offer

Protest escalation suspended last week following 'breakthrough' talks with government

May 30 2018 11:43am

Clifford Chance faces potential SRA probe following complaint from Welsh bricklayer

Magic circle giant accused of overlooking fraud allegation

May 29 2018 2:57pm

Pro no-no: Two thirds of criminal barristers work at least a day a week unpaid

And they say it's because solicitors are doing less work, new report suggests

May 29 2018 12:33pm

Bar suspends legal aid protest escalation following £15 million government offer

Barristers will continue to refuse new publicly-funded cases

May 25 2018 1:08pm

Average trainee solicitor pay down £560 since regulator scrapped minimum salary requirement

Nearly half of rookies think they're paid too little

May 25 2018 9:17am

Just 11 black law students admitted to Oxford University in three years

Six percent of black students that applied accepted offers -- the same is true of 20% of white applicants

May 24 2018 2:29pm

Nottingham Trent law student ordered to pay £500 compensation following ‘disgusting’ racist chanting incident

19-year-old 'truly sorry' after footage of verbal onslaught went viral

May 24 2018 1:46pm

Freshfields to offer solicitor apprenticeships in Manchester

They will include super exam prep

May 22 2018 1:58pm

MPs take aim at magic circle over Russia dealings and Carillion collapse

Politicians' knives out for cream of corporate law crop

May 21 2018 2:33pm

Suspended chemsex barrister sells £4,000 ‘legal advice for life’ on Facebook

Exclusive: Henry Hendron prepares for bar return

May 16 2018 10:24am

Kirkland & Ellis boosts LPC grant to £10,000

Matching moves by the magic circle, Herbert Smith Freehills and Hogan Lovells

May 16 2018 9:08am