Category: News

Bar exam bosses apologise for last summer’s chaos after damning independent review
Outside experts heavily critical of online set-up that left some students locked out and others urinating in bottles and buckets

Bakers restores NQ solicitor pay to pre-pandemic £90k
City outfit cut salaries by £2.5k last summer

Hogan Lovells launches trainee mentoring scheme to boost retention of BAME lawyers
Group sessions to cover topics including 'relationship building' and 'overcoming Imposter Syndrome'

City firms cut secretary support as lawyers prepare to return to the office
Dechert joins the likes of Clifford Chance and Linklaters in reducing secretarial roles in London

Linklaters to fund SQE prep courses for refugee lawyers
Through tie-up with BARBRI and charity Breaking Barriers

London law graduate strangled and shot on visit to Pakistan
Mayra Zulfiqar, 26, found dead after 'two men fought to marry her’

Osborne Clarke hands staff a slice of the profits as Shoosmiths says ‘thank you’ with bonuses
Lockdown rewards continue

New report reveals practice areas most and least impacted by pandemic
Downturn in areas including litigation, property and immigration, while employment, commercial, tax, and risk & compliance thrive

FT editors attack government plans to restrict judicial review
March consultation is 'yet more evidence of the Conservative government’s contempt for the separation of powers'

Liverpool Uni law grad earns £60k a year on OnlyFans
Alaw Haf, 23, posts glamour shots from family home in Wales

DLA Piper launches solicitor apprenticeship for school-leavers
Six-year programme starts in September from firm's Manchester office

Lawyer bakes ‘Kavanagh Caterpillar QC’ cake to ‘defend’ Aldi’s Cuthbert in tasty IP battle
Wig ✅ gown ✅ White Book ✅

Bird & Bird thanks lawyers and staff with Covid bonus
Rewarded €1,000 for 'hard work and extraordinary contributions'

City law firms take nine spots in ‘Top 50 Employers for Women’ list
Recognised for paving the way towards gender-equal workplaces

Clifford Chance to allow lawyers to work remotely up to 50% of the time
New policy comes into effect once Covid restrictions are lifted on 21 June

Teen charged with junior lawyer’s murder
Khuram Javed shot dead in Sheffield earlier this month

Slaughter and May pushes ahead with associate salary rises
Magic circle player also restarts staff pay reviews as part of an easing of financial measures put in place during the pandemic

Mishcon de Reya poised for stock market flotation in move which would see trainees and junior lawyers become shareholders
Could take place later this year

KFC’s top lawyer swaps fried chicken for pizza
Lawrence Grabau moves across to Pizza Hut as its new chief legal officer

Pupillage seekers jump by 50% during pandemic
Over 3,300 wannabe barristers applied for 246 training spots this year

ULaw appoints former City, University of London strategy chief as deputy vice-chancellor
Professor Radnor joins law school's exec board