Category: News

Lambo lawyer loses legal fight to keep ‘offensive’ number plate
Cops seize controversial ‘LGOPNR’ reg

Majority of SRA investigations involve male solicitors
92% of individuals struck off in 2018/19 were men, new report finds

Travers Smith restarts lawyer salary reviews and increases pay
Business services and support staff salaries remain frozen

Litigation, crime, property, immigration are legal sectors hardest hit by pandemic, report finds
But the likes of tax and employment are growing

Don’t just give SQE trainees ‘repetitive admin tasks’, regulator warns law firms
SRA seeks to protect rookies qualifying under new regime

Baker McKenzie tells lawyers to keep Wednesdays meeting-free to ‘combat Zoom fatigue’
And 1-2pm on other work days

Clifford Chance restores NQ lawyer pay following COVID cut
Exclusive: £100k package returns

Prioritise terminally ill during COVID vaccine roll-out, urges Pinsent Masons comms chief
Fred Banning has stage four bowel cancer

More law firms pay back furlough funds
DAC Beachcroft and Bevan Brittan follow host of City firms in returning government cash

Clifford Chance ditches ‘Dear Sirs’ and ‘Chairman’ in inclusivity push
Magic circle player calls time on gendered language in legal correspondence following similar moves by Freshfields and Quinn Emanuel

Underpaid, stressed and bullied: Experiences of BAME solicitors laid bare in new report
Law Society research compares experiences of black, asian and minority ethnic solicitors with white counterparts

Home-working: 3 out of 4 solicitors experiencing feelings of isolation and lack of motivation
Cracks beginning to show in WFH model, particularly among juniors, report finds

Simmons & Simmons sets 30% ethnic minority target for trainees
Aims to achieve greater racial diversity by 2025

A&O and Clifford Chance dish out bonuses to US lawyers
Year-end and special cash rewards

Barrister reprimanded for refusing breath test
Gave no comment interview

Sexy Starmer was not the model for Bridget Jones heartthrob Darcy, author reveals
Helen Fielding puts much-loved rumour to rest but insists Labour leader is lush

Lawyers hit out at US law firm Quinn Emanuel’s ‘dread’ advert
Full-page in FT

Law prof drafts in Tiger King’s Carole Baskin to motivate students
Netflix star features in inspirational vid

Nottingham Law School reveals SQE prep courses
Fees still unknown

Slaughter and May boosts Xmas bonuses but sticks with pay freeze
Also reinstates partner distributions

Law student who gave birth during bar exam reveals she passed
'I did all of this because I did not see any other option to accomplish both my goals -- become a lawyer and a mom,' says Brianna Hill