Category: News

White students more likely to secure law firm sponsorship, research finds
Major SRA report examines ethnicity attainment gap in law exams

Lawyer transforms Zoom workwear with the ‘facsuit’
Perfect for the WFH solicitor in your life

A&O Shearman follows Magic Circle rivals in upping NQ lawyer salaries to £150k
Just Slaughters left to increase

ULaw student reaches Miss GB London final
Kiran Nirvan will compete in July

SRA eyes £66 million SQE income next year
More than double previous year

Paralegal texted client urging them not to cooperate with firm investigation
Filed 'misleading' info with land registry

Pinsents raises NQ lawyer salaries to £97k
£63k in regions

Regulator hikes compensation levy by 300% following Axiom Ince fiasco
£90 per solicitor

SQE2 pass rate climbs to 73%
Over 870 aspiring lawyers completed latest sitting

Clifford Chance joins City pay war with improved £150k NQ lawyer salary
Follows Freshfields and Linklaters

Lawyers: it pays to be AI savvy
Tech skills linked to higher salaries for legal professionals

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