Category: News
Junior barrister imagines Boris Johnson and top Tory MPs as fictional QCs in hilarious Twitter thread
Filled with plenty of QC quips and lawyer in-jokes
‘The SQE Sessions’ launches as super-exam countdown begins
Half-day virtual event will answer questions on firms’ lips
Magic and silver circle law firms sign commitment to ensure BAME junior lawyers get same career opportunities as white counterparts
Elite firms join over 30 legal recruiters in new diversity pledge
ULaw unveils new SQE courses
Fees announced within the next month
Hogan Lovells reinstates NQ lawyer pay following COVID cuts
Global firm trimmed salaries in London and Birmingham earlier this summer
Exclusive: Big Aussie law school moves into English super-exam market, offering SQE 1 and 2 prep courses
College of Legal Practice will challenge established players for market share
Participating firms announced for The Legal Cheek November Virtual Law Fair
Meet over 60 leading law firms
Virtual student events next week with White & Case, Reed Smith and Clyde & Co
Taking place on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday
Super-exam won’t save students money, claim junior lawyers
Junior Lawyers Division predicts that newly-approved SQE won't lower qualification costs
Irish solicitor gives CPR to dying bear
Killian MacLochlainn owns an animal sanctuary
Solicitor fined by disciplinary tribunal after failing to provide blood sample to police
Banned from driving for over a year
Lord Sumption warns of ‘totalitarian society’ in latest attack on lockdown policies
Lockdown sceptic accuses government of setting fire to the constitution as it tries to rule by decree
Solicitor super-exam receives final approval
LSB signs off on biggest shake-up to legal education and training in a quarter-century
Norton Rose Fulbright sets BAME trainee recruitment target of 25%
Follows similar ethnicity goals by Links, A&O and HSF
Linklaters extends virtual internship to sixth-formers
No plans to offer solicitor apprenticeships
Paul Weiss lawyer dies at 107
Mordecai ‘Mordie’ Rochlin joined the firm in 1937 and worked from his 32nd floor office well into his 100s
Strike off for solicitor who changed dates on property paperwork with Tipp-Ex
Nicholas St John Gething described move as ‘quick fix’
Training contract numbers return to pre-financial crash levels for first time
Annual rookie registrations jump by over 500 to 6,344