Author: Thomas Connelly

Baker & McKenzie gives Belfast-based training contracts the green light

International giant will take on its first trainees next September

Oct 27 2016 1:10pm

Teenager takes legal action against media after becoming mullet meme internet sensation

Ali Ziggi Mosslmani claims he is now the subject of ridicule after his image went viral

Oct 26 2016 3:09pm

Addleshaw Goddard thaws post-Brexit vote pay freeze

Northern powerhouse "deferred" pay increases back in August

Oct 24 2016 4:58pm

Junior lawyers are failing to hit billing targets

It's a similar story for trainees too

Oct 24 2016 10:37am

CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang eyes US merger

The firm’s name could be about to get even longer

Oct 20 2016 12:28pm

Clifford Chance is offering training contracts to ‘exceptional’ 18-year-olds

But fresh-faced law students have until third year to accept

Oct 20 2016 10:06am

It’s back! People are once again sharing a useless legal privacy notice on Facebook

It has been redrafted but it's still nonsense

Oct 19 2016 10:55am

New York Times in killer response to Trump legal threat

Newspaper published an article suggesting the Republican had touched two women inappropriately

Oct 18 2016 12:31pm

Cambridge University law students create crime-identifying ‘LawBot’

It's basically an Oxbridge-educated RoboCop

Oct 17 2016 11:34am

Research: Almost 70% of lawyers believe they work in the most stressful profession

Workload, client demands and billing targets are to blame

Oct 13 2016 1:49pm

Nabarro, CMS Cameron McKenna and Latham & Watkins reveal trainee retention figures

Clyde & Co and DAC Beachcroft also throw their results into the mix

Oct 12 2016 9:52am

Iain Duncan Smith called Keir Starmer a ‘second rate lawyer’ and Twitter went mental

Incident happened during fiery parliamentary debate on Brexit

Oct 11 2016 1:04pm

CMS Cameron McKenna, Nabarro and Olswang confirm merger WILL go ahead

And it will be called CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP

Oct 10 2016 3:31pm

Court document reveals SRA was left over £17,700 out of pocket after Lord Harley redaction blunder

Exclusive: Regulator was unable to recover costs after ex-solicitor advocate's unsuccessful injunction bid

Oct 10 2016 12:58pm

£5 million up for grabs as Inns of Court open BPTC scholarship applications

Bar hopefuls have less than a month to apply

Oct 10 2016 10:26am

BSB and Bar Council schedule BTPC civil litigation exam on pupillage offer day

"We are now looking into alternative dates and options" say bar big wigs

Oct 7 2016 10:04am