Category: News
First female barrister to be commemorated with London blue plaque
Helena Normanton's roundel will mark the address she lived for the early part of her legal career
First speakers announced for LegalEdCon 2021
Two-day virtual conference to explore future of legal education and training
UK law firms reward lawyers with COVID bonuses
Allen & Overy, Ashurst and Walker Morris latest to thank staff with cash sums
Freshfields narrows gender pay gap
Magic circle player also publishes ethnicity data and, for the first time, disability and LGBT+ results
Quinn Emanuel lawyer convicted of dangerous driving following parking row outside daughter’s nursery school
Boris Bronfentrinker tells Legal Cheek he's "considering grounds for an appeal" after being hit with £5k fine and 12 month driving ban
Speakers announced for Legal Cheek’s Spring Virtual Vacation Scheme
Featuring 10 leading law firms, alongside in-house lawyers from Netflix, NatWest, BT and the BBC, as well as ULaw's employability team
Legal celebs flock to Cameo
From Suits stars to Trump’s former lawyer
Law students express concern at highlighter shortage in wake of Suez Canal crisis
APRIL FOOLS! Delays to UK shipments send prices of popular stationery soaring
Two Doughty Street junior barristers launch hijabs for court
Latest release from Ivy & Normanton, the first ever outfitter dedicated to courtwear for women
DAC Beachcroft lawyers can choose where and what hours they work
'The future of work is changing and so must we,' says firm's managing partner
Junior solicitor struck off for faking colleague’s signature launches High Court appeal
Henna Zeb Khan found to have signed someone else's name on property documents during her training contract
Top Quinn Emanuel partner ‘drove at pedestrian’ during ‘aggressive’ parking row outside daughter’s nursery, court hears
London-based lawyer Boris Bronfentrinker denies dangerous driving
New speakers announced for Living Room Law virtual conference
Remote-working pioneers from Re:link Linklaters, Peerpoint by Allen & Overy, Level and Hardwicke will join our previously announced speakers from Travers Smith and Hogan Lovells
LPC provider pass rates vary from 100% to just 23%, latest figures show
SRA annual report reveals 'significant differences' among anonymised law schools
And the winners of the Legal Cheek Awards 2021 are…
Industry celebrates top trainee-rated firms and chambers in virtual ceremony featuring special guest appearances from shadow Lord Chancellor David Lammy and ex-Justice Secretary David Gauke 🏆
Pupillage: Bar leaders urged to stop ‘shameful’ rejection by silence
Aspiring barrister Noah Gifford describes common practice among chambers as ‘insulting’ in open letter
City law firms reveal latest pay gap figures
Clifford Chance, Hogan Lovells, Clyde & Co and Irwin Mitchell go public with gender and ethnicity results
China bans magic circle chambers over alleged human rights ‘disinformation’
Country accuses London's Essex Court Chambers of spreading 'lies' about treatment of Uighur Muslims
US law firms hand London associates spring bonuses of up to £47k
Milbank, Skadden, Paul Hastings and Goodwin Procter splash the cash 🤑
Revealed: The top barristers by Supreme Court appearances
Academic Dr Mikołaj Barczentewicz crunches the numbers to compile lawyer league table