Category: News

Ex-Daily Mail editor who wrote infamous ‘Enemies of the People’ article set to become Boris Johnson’s director of communications
James Slack replaces Lee Cain who resigned over night

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’ lawyer husband to leave DLA Piper
Doug Emhoff will leave global outfit by inauguration day on 20 January

Hogan Lovells offers fast-track path to TC assessment days with new virtual academy
Exclusive: For sixth-form students and up

Law firms dominate social mobility employer list
Top ten spots for BCLP, Browne Jacobson, HSF and Bakers

IBA conference: Regulator has major role to play in junior lawyer wellbeing, argues Sheffield Uni law lecturer
Dr Emma Jones joins other top academics and charity LawCare to launch mental health research study

Law Society: Reserve vac scheme and TC spots for disabled aspiring lawyers
City law firms also encouraged to run more part-time training contracts

Profession must look after junior lawyers screwed over by the pandemic, Supreme Court judge warns
Lord Hodge says there shouldn't be 'lasting detriment' to those starting their career

December bar exams to go ahead as planned
BSB keeping assessments under 'close review' in wake of second lockdown

Biden’s law graduate granddaughter pokes fun at Trump with fake case law tweet
'The case of Trump v. Reality'

Nottingham Uni Law Society targets carbon negative first
Green goal follows City firms' pledge to ditch law fair merch

THIS TUESDAY: The November Legal Cheek UK Virtual Law Fair
Tuesday 10 November from 1:50pm to 5pm; featuring over 60 leading law firms

Law graduate who came 76/85 in his class set to become world’s most powerful person
Joe Biden gives hope to struggling law students across the globe

BARBRI strikes SQE partnership with flexi-paralegal service
5,000 paralegals to have access to SQE scholarships and fee discounts

White male barristers out-earn female and BAME colleagues
Even with the same level of experience and areas of law, research finds

DWF ‘cautiously optimistic’ following summer cost-cutting measures
Listed giant's revenue up 14% on previous 12 months

Teaching teenagers is harder than studying law at Harvard, says ex-English teacher in viral TikTok
Second year law student Rachel Cohen says her stress was higher before switching careers

Taylor Wessing ends flexi-working scheme early
Part of a wider roll back on its emergency coronavirus measures

Top law prof to oversee independent review into summer bar exam fiasco
BSB announces appointment of Hull Uni pro-vice chancellor Rebecca Huxley-Binns

Ban for former Travers Smith trainee who ‘misled colleagues’
Ex-rookie sanctioned over email to IT

Reed Smith signs SQE training deal with BARBRI and College of Legal Practice
Replaces LPC route from 2022

Big Four giant Deloitte snaps up London law firm
Acquires Kemp Little