Category: News

Ex-Freshfields partner Ryan Beckwith launches High Court challenge over tribunal ruling

City lawyer was fined £35,000 and ordered to pay £200,000 in costs for drunken sexual incident with junior colleague

Feb 26 2020 8:36am

Digital bank Revolut expands into legal services

Fintech giant strikes deal with 'digital lawyer' platform

Feb 25 2020 10:47am

SRA won’t appeal Ryan Beckwith ruling

Ex-Freshfields partner was fined £35,000, but not struck off, for engaging in sexual activity with a junior female colleague

Feb 24 2020 5:01pm

Meet Manchester City’s new star defender: Lord Pannick QC

Champions call on Blackstone heavyweight to tackle UEFA ban

Feb 24 2020 11:37am

SRA dismisses call to disclose LPC provider pass rates

Junior Lawyers Division's plea comes after stats show law school success scores vary from 100% to 29%

Feb 24 2020 10:52am

Linklaters keeps 36 out of 41 spring NQs

Further four rookies defer start dates

Feb 24 2020 8:56am

UK’s youngest female judge promoted to full district status aged 34

Briony Clarke first joined the bench at 31 ?

Feb 21 2020 10:56am

Coronavirus could delay City law trainee spring start dates

LPC grads returning from breaks in far flung destinations will have to heed quarantine advice

Feb 21 2020 8:53am

US lawyer made to write out lines by judge for ‘reprehensible’ behaviour during trial

'I shall not engage in conduct intended to disrupt a tribunal'

Feb 20 2020 12:26pm

Struck off lawyer suspended by bar tribunal

Aurang Khattak removed from solicitors profession -- but return to the bar remains open

Feb 20 2020 10:18am

From partner to pizzeria: ex-Clifford Chance lawyer opens up on life as restaurateur

Katrina Allison moved to Cumbria aged 46 after tiring of commercial litigation

Feb 20 2020 8:43am

Wannabe Keir Starmers can live in his old student house in Leeds with two other law students

Recreate likely Labour leader-to-be’s university life

Feb 18 2020 12:52pm

Deloitte teams up with PhD tech students to solve ‘future problems’ in the legal sector

Tackle areas ripe for development including AI and blockchain

Feb 18 2020 9:58am

Over half of female lawyers have experienced or witnessed sexism at work

But 46% fail to report over fears it would negatively impact their careers, new research reveals

Feb 18 2020 8:58am

LPC pass rates nosedive as report reveals one law school where just 29% of students made the grade

While achievement gap between white and ethnic minority students remains large

Feb 17 2020 11:39am

Quinn Emanuel follows Freshfields in ditching ‘Dear Sirs’ from lawyers’ emails

'The idea is to show that we take gender seriously', says US firm

Feb 17 2020 10:53am

70% of lawyers worry about letting their bosses down

Many also fret over lack of genuine workmates, new research finds

Feb 14 2020 11:16am

Linklaters to relocate London HQ

Two minute walk from current Silk Street site

Feb 14 2020 9:34am