Category: News

What you need to know about the Grenfell Tower inquiry
The judge, the lawyers and more
Lady Hale to star in new children’s book
Crowdfunding appeal seeks £25,000 for publication

MPs ask Allen & Overy to hand over partner gender pay gap data — magic circle firm says no
Outfit to publish new salary stats in September

DWF set to make legal history with £1 billion London Stock Exchange flotation
Global giant's top brass could be handed £10 million share windfall... each!

Review of Exeter Uni’s law society launched in wake of racism row
Exclusive: Law students invited to submit evidence

Slaughter and May lawyer scores World Cup punditry role
Associate consultant and footballer Eniola Aluko heads to Russia

Regulate the robots? Law Society’s incoming president launches review
As Society appoints 'new' CEO following dramatic resignation of predecessor

Norton Rose Fulbright ups LPC grant by 43% to £10,000
Exclusive: Matching money moves made by the magic circle, Kirkland & Ellis, HSF and Hogan Lovells

City trainee confession: ‘I earn £45,000 a year and spend obscene amounts on ASOS — but my mum still pays my phone bill’
Money diary of a corporate rookie revealed

Gig economy on trial: Plumber wins workers’ rights dispute in Supreme Court showdown
First Uber, now Pimlico Plumbers

Love Island lawyers latest: Junior solicitor left in tears after date ‘slags her off’ to ex-legal secretary
Rosie Williams has a law degree, an LPC and an LLM

‘Lord Harley’ in court after being charged with benefits offence
Two years after he was struck off

Ince & Co redundancies will have ‘no impact’ on NQ positions — but effect on future trainee numbers unclear
Firm currently undertaking 'detailed review' of staffing levels

Legal Cheek launches new iPhone app with graduate recruitment deadline alerts
Free and easy-to-use future lawyer essential

Young law firm partner jailed after he tricked ex-S&M dungeon master into thinking he’d won £700,000 damages from Channel 4
Andrew Davies was struck off in 2016 after taking client cash and forging documents to cover his tracks

Your favourite law memes could be banned under EU copyright directive
Brussels bigwigs could ‘destroy the internet as we know it’, say digital rights campaigners

Exclusive: Government’s favourite silk Sir James Eadie QC pulls out of controversial work experience auction
Offer to sell work experience to the highest bidder in the name of social mobility pulled after Legal Cheek asks questions -- but other lawyers stick with online auction

Embarrassment for Mishcon de Reya after canteen slated by food hygiene inspectors
Glamorous staff eatery scores only 1 out 5 after food safety officer inspection

Supreme Court says Northern Ireland abortion ban breaches human rights — but decides it can’t do anything about it
Majority find against restrictive laws but throw the case out on a technicality