Category: News

Hogan Lovells bumps LPC grant by 43% to £10,000
Matching moves by the magic circle and Herbert Smith Freehills

Dentons targets spacetech sector with new innovation hub
To boldly go where no law firm has gone before?

Lady Hale was on MasterChef last night
Supreme Court president sampled fish dishes alongside space scientists and women's rights campaigners

Clifford Chance launches ‘Tech Academy’ to help lawyers get to grips with coding
AI, blockchain and cybersecurity lessons also on the menu

Herbert Smith Freehills becomes latest firm to boost LPC grant to £10,000
Global law firm matches five-figure sum awarded by magic circle outfits

Junior criminal barrister, 32, now youngest Crown Court judge in recent history
Rise of the baby-faced bench, as 34-year-old appointed as a district judge

Allen & Overy launches South London flexible working hub
Vauxhall satellite office will ‘significantly’ cut commuting time

You can now Skype a Supreme Court justice
Lady Hale says she's looking forward to chatting to students in new outreach programme

Deadline for gender pay gap reporting is today — here’s how law firms have done
The outfits with the biggest (and smallest) pay gaps in the City

Trump-Russia probe: Former City lawyer jailed for 30 days
Ex-Skadden associate admitted misleading FBI investigators

This Westminster law student has THREE MILLION Instagram followers
Most followed law student in the country to forsake full-time modelling career for legal academia

Lady Hale will appear on MasterChef this week
From judging cases to judging cooking

Transatlantic tie-up: Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner goes live
New outfit led by female duo

SRA will not relax its rules for students caught up in university strikes
As students fight for compensation over lost lectures

‘Her credentials speak for themselves’: CPS chief Alison Saunders to join Linklaters
Magic circle bound after controversial five-year tenure

‘The system is desperate, as are we’: Criminal barristers to REFUSE new work in protest to legal aid cuts
Decision taken with ‘heavy hearts’

Insta-ban? Don’t post photos of yourself in ‘casual settings’, judges told
Also warned not to reveal holiday plans

Oxford law student overcomes legal dispute with Facebook to launch contract law revision app
He came up with the idea while revising for exams

Awkward! Allen & Overy partner stumbles in face of grilling by MPs over non-disclosure agreements
As committee publishes Harvey Weinstein NDA

I haven’t heard back from my vac scheme interview for six weeks — what should I do?
I emailed a month ago but the firm ignored me

Solicitor super-exam one step closer to reality following watchdog approval
Goodbye LPC and GDL?