Category: News
Macfarlanes boosts LPC grant to £10,000 as it confirms 100% spring retention score
All six associates kept on
Email fraudsters impersonate Clifford Chance UK managing partner
Spell name wrong in dodgy emails
King’s College history student beats Oxbridge wannabe lawyers to ‘Advocate of the Year’ prize
Bar hopeful Tristan Greene victorious in BPP-backed comp
Struggling to understand how the SQE will affect you? This handy new calculator is here to help
Online tool determines students' best route to solicitor qualification
Ministry of Justice signs historic online betting deal (April Fool!)
Package includes court naming rights and judges’ robe sponsorship
Lawyers among worst for phone etiquette
Irritating habits include eating and drinking or interrupting those speaking, research finds
2 Bedford Row invites aspiring barristers to pupillage interview in error
Exclusive: Promptly disinvites them
Trinity College Dublin law profs split over whether student newspaper bugging halls to expose secret society’s ‘hazing’ was legal
Law school bigwigs wade into covert recording dispute
Head of Nottingham Law School teaching law firm to join other top non-Russell Group academics at expanded Future of Legal Education and Training Conference
New session on clinical legal education to also feature universities Swansea and Northumbria, and leading apprenticeships provider
Linklaters and Clifford Chance latest firms to pay for gender reassignment surgery
Transitioning support also available for lawyers and support staff
It’s not ‘virtue-signalling’: 20 Essex Street QC hits back at critics of contextual recruitment system
Decision to embrace City law hiring process drew fire from Legal Cheek readers
Lawyerly advice to pupil barristers: ‘Imagine the judge is slightly hard of hearing and a bit daft’
Words of wisdom (and a few poetic metaphors) for fresh-faced practitioners
Pinch on the bum not indecent assault in age of ‘twerking’ and internet porn, judge finds
Australian appeal court upholds acquittal of cop for touching woman at basketball tournament
Jolyon Maugham QC suffers backlash on Twitter after calling High Court judge ‘pro-Government’
Campaigning silk defends comments after criticism from fellow lawyers, including The Secret Barrister
Estonia to build ‘robot judge’ to clear case backlog
Baltic nation's justice officials call on services of 28-year-old AI whizz
London lawyer jailed for misleading FBI during Trump-Russia probe to face disciplinary tribunal
'Allegations are as yet unproven', says SRA
Law student in hopeless ‘crash for cash’ claim
'Wholly incredible and inconsistent'
City law firms prepare to overhaul training structures as SQE nears
Legal Cheek-BARBRI super-exam survey results revealed
Law firm ordered to compensate transgender client after ‘using her birth name’
Incident had 'emotional impact' on complainant, Legal Ombudsman finds
And the winners of the Legal Cheek Awards 2019 are…
Gongs galore for industry’s top players, including firm of the year Taylor Wessing and ‘Most Admired’ chambers Blackstone
Litigant in person throws White Book at barrister
Lawyer lent self-representing claimant practitioners' text at judge's request