Author: Thomas Connelly
Bar Council launches new mentoring scheme to help barristers with children return to work
Initiative aims to stem the loss of top legal talent at the bar
Fine dining, European getaways and power boating down the Thames — it must be summer vac scheme season
A world away from life in corporate law
ULaw offers GDL students the chance to upgrade to LLB for free
New "Graduate LLB" will kick off next summer
Lord Harley booted out of profession
Lord of LinkedIn slapped with £86,000 costs bill
Regulator opens its case against Harry Potter lawyer claiming ‘he lives in a fantasy world’
Disciplinary hearing gets underway despite no show from Alan Blacker
‘Pokémon Go’ craze reaches the heart of legal London
Augmented reality game allows users to catch on-screen characters using real-life locations -- including Inner Temple Library
Employment solicitor argues he’s victim of a ‘character assassination’ after former links to far right political party emerge
Lawyer exposed as ex-leader of British Resistance Party
CMS Cameron McKenna drafts in resource management guru to allocate work to junior lawyers
Increased red tape will improve efficiency... apparently
Post-Brexit jitters: Berwin Leighton Paisner freezes pay amid ‘political and financial uncertainty’
But money is up at Travers Smith
BPP poaches top sports law firm from ULaw in future trainee deal
North west outfit Brabners strikes LPC deal that kicks off this September
Brexit Shmexit: King & Wood Mallesons ups newly qualified pay packets to £70,000
Exclusive: Rumours circulate that Macfarlanes has also joined KWM in waving two fingers at Brexit by boosting junior lawyer salaries
Addleshaw Goddard gives ‘home-desking’ the green light implementing UK wide policy
The agile working bandwagon gains another passenger
Trowers & Hamlins reveals autumn retention rate of 79%
Seasonal fluctuations continue to affect national firm
High Court slaps litigant-in-person who bombarded Pinsent Masons lawyer with ‘more than 100 text messages’ with restraint order
Google litigant described as “obsessional and vexatious”
City lawyer at centre of Legal Cheek investigation quits profession over CV fabrications
Ex-McCarthy Tétrault "consultant" claimed, among other things, to have obtained an LLM from King’s College and a PHD from the University of Zurich
Magic circle embraces artificial intelligence
Clifford Chance latest outfit to embrace futuristic robot-style tech to improve speed, efficiency and quality
Wannabe barrister creates ‘Brexiles’ website to help young people flee Britain
Oxford grad creates online resource tool in wake of historic referendum vote
Westminster prof named ‘Law Teacher of the Year 2016’
Lisa Webley scoops coveted prize, seeing off competition from the likes of Oxford, Leicester and Nottingham Trent
What Brexit? Herbert Smith Freehills boosts pay for newly qualified solicitors to £90,000
Trainee salaries also rise at London office of global giant