Category: News

Man given suspended sentence for impersonating barrister
Used identity of real lawyer

Top in-house lawyers to ramp up pro bono efforts with new pledge
GCs from Coca-Cola, ITV, Goldman Sachs and more

Garrick Club: Bar Council issues warning to lawyer members
'Exclusionary spaces do not foster support between colleagues'

Trowers introduces innovation seat for trainees
New TC option

Gowling ups office attendance to 60%
Previously 50%

A&O launches in Saudi Arabia ahead of Shearman mega-merger
Follows similar moves by Kirkland & Ellis, HSF and Clifford Chance

Judge given formal advice over ‘offensive’ social media posts
Follows two complaints

Paralegal sanctioned for misleading firm over LLM qualification
Needs SRA approval for law firm work

Formal advice for judge accused of telling barrister to ‘chill out’
Apparently mimicked TV character

Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the weekend

The Garrick: Posh men-only members club is full of top judges and lawyers
Face calls to cancel membership

CMS and Slaughters latest firms to withdraw TC offers
SQE fallout continues

City Law Society training chief urges law firms to support trainees struggling with SQE
Clifford Chance revoked TC offers while Macfarlanes has 'pass first time' policy

Macfarlanes future trainees fear for careers amid firm’s ‘must pass first time’ SQE policy
Follows Clifford Chance terminating TCs

Exclusive: Clifford Chance cancels TC offers for students who failed SQE
No second chances

Junior solicitor who inappropriately touched colleague suspended for three months
2019 Christmas party incident

Newly qualified solicitor struck off for fabricating time recordings
Lack of experience not mitigating factor

IBA releases guidance for law schools to safeguard student mental health
Wellbeing issues should not be sign of weakness, says International Bar Association

More than a quarter of pupil barristers encounter bullying or harassment
Significantly higher number of women experienced issues personally