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

Edinburgh Uni launches review after public law exam answer papers go missing
Students asked to submit new 500 word assessment instead

Junior solicitor who only qualified THREE months ago puts legal career on hold to enter Love Island villa
She refers to herself as 'Legally Brunette'

MoneyLaw 2.0: US outfit Milbank ups London junior lawyer pay to £143,000
Will others follow?

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

Reed Smith junior lawyers to receive performance feedback via phone app
As global outfit launches inter-office secondment opportunity

Pupillage award minimum to jump by as much as 40%
BSB brings rookie pay in line with living wage

Criminal barristers to vote on £15 million legal aid offer
Protest escalation suspended last week following 'breakthrough' talks with government

Clifford Chance faces potential SRA probe following complaint from Welsh bricklayer
Magic circle giant accused of overlooking fraud allegation

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

Bar suspends legal aid protest escalation following £15 million government offer
Barristers will continue to refuse new publicly-funded cases

Average trainee solicitor pay down £560 since regulator scrapped minimum salary requirement
Nearly half of rookies think they're paid too little

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

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

Freshfields to offer solicitor apprenticeships in Manchester
They will include super exam prep

MPs take aim at magic circle over Russia dealings and Carillion collapse
Politicians' knives out for cream of corporate law crop

Dentons suspends and disciplines trainees caught accessing firm’s confidential retention plans
Four rookies on naughty step

‘Time spent being innovative counts towards billable targets,’ Reed Smith tells lawyers
Following a successful pilot

Suspended chemsex barrister sells £4,000 ‘legal advice for life’ on Facebook
Exclusive: Henry Hendron prepares for bar return

Kirkland & Ellis boosts LPC grant to £10,000
Matching moves by the magic circle, Herbert Smith Freehills and Hogan Lovells