Category: News
Klarna encourages in-house lawyers to use ChatGPT for contract drafting
Bad news for external law firms?
HSF trainee quits mid-TC to sell application advice online
Firm declines to comment
Land law update: seabed is not land
High Court ruling
Receptionist who couldn’t pronounce firm’s name loses employment case
Employed eight days
BSB granted extra powers to tackle misbehaving barristers
Interim suspensions
Queen Mary and BARBRI create Russell Group’s first solicitor apprenticeship pathway
London uni in early talks with possible partner firms
Trowers to take on solicitor apprentices from 2025
More firms embrace TC alternative
Could we soon be saying bye-bye to barristers’ wigs?
Bar Council working group reviews future of court dress
Independent review confirms reissued SQE1 results are correct
Kaplan drafted in top statistician after 175 students were incorrectly told they had failed
Young lawyers urge MPs to visit ‘legal aid frontline’
Two MPs have already planned visits
And the winners of the Legal Cheek Awards 2024 are…
Who won what: revealed 🏆
City pay war: Linklaters matches Freshfields with £150k NQ lawyer salary
Rises for trainees and apprentices too
Tech’s role in boosting access to justice among key themes for 2024 Pro Bono Week
Annual programme of events runs later this year
Best of the blogs
Weekly round-up of the top legal blogosphere posts
City Law firms partner with KCL to launch student-staffed law clinic addressing LGBTQ+ discrimination
Baker McKenzie and Clyde & Co
Free wine hidden in T&Cs of former Magic Circle lawyer’s website
Claimed after three months
Osborne Clarke becomes first firm referred to tribunal over alleged ‘SLAPP’
Concerns firm's representation of ex-Tory Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi
Ex-City lawyer handed 15 year jail term for role in £30 million Ponzi scheme
Follows major police investigation
Chester, Bristol, Hertfordshire and King’s law students triumph at latest Pro Bono Awards
Projects include domestic abuse support, environmental law toolkit and a 'Justice Bus'