Category: News
Ex-Baker McKenzie boss who attempted to kiss junior lawyer fined £55,000
Amounted to serious professional misconduct, tribunal finds
Junior lawyers call for super-exam delay as it warns MCQs may be too easy
War of words between JLD and regulator rumbles on
Uni law degrees don’t prepare grads for law firm life, report claims
Bosses bemoan 'basic grammatical mistakes' and lack of commercial awareness
Unexpected death of former Baker McKenzie chief was suicide, inquest hears
Paul Rawlinson took his own life at Swiss treatment centre
Taylor Wessing furloughs lawyers and green lights flexi-working scheme
Bonus payments will be split into two instalments
Scottish universities outperform English counterparts in latest law school rankings
Oxbridge duo dominate top spots
Northumbria Uni law students’ anger at first year who posted boyfriend’s racist rant on Instagram
Both since handed police cautions
Mills & Reeve keeps 16 out of 18 autumn NQs
One on fixed-term deal
Birkbeck Uni law graduate looks to privately prosecute Dominic Cummings for Durham trip
Mahsa Taliefar is seeking £300,000 in online fundraiser
Stephenson Harwood embraces earn-while-you-learn solicitor apprenticeships
City player also launches £15k a year scholarship fund in diversity push
Durham Uni law student tackles lockdown loneliness with charity chatline
'Chit-chat' by Lewis Alexander Baxter aims to 'connect the nation through conversation'
Top chambers postpone mini-pupillage schemes in response to COVID-19
But some sets are offering virtual minis and webinars
Exam blunder sees Oxford University law students given wrong criminal paper
Told of error halfway through open-book assessment
Wife of 25 Bedford Row barrister reveals husband’s battles with racism in viral Facebook post
'People often assume that he is the defendant', writes Katie Lynch
Squire Patton Boggs and Osborne Clarke move summer vacation schemes online
Law firms continue to switch to virtual programmes amid virus disruption
CONFIRMED: This is what the new solicitor super-exam will look like
Two-part assessment to come into force from 1 September 2021 -- subject to LSB approval
Freshfields lawyers aghast after senior partner refers to ‘Blacks’ in firm-wide email
Boss Edward Braham apologises and says he is 'committed to learning from this'
DWF defers training contract start dates by six months
Thirty-one new joiners will now start in February
Defence barrister fined £1,000 for ‘pulling faces’ at judge
She also described a decision as ‘insane'
DLA Piper offers future trainees £10,000 to delay TC start dates by a year
Exclusive: Or £5,000 for six months