Category: News
France to set up English-style financial disputes court and ‘hire people with experience in common law’
Paris eyes London’s legal crown
‘Brexit – the Musical’: Show written by Berwin Leighton Paisner EU law partner to debut at Edinburgh Fringe
Its characters include Boris Johnson, Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn
Solicitor super-exam is golden opportunity for law schools to make their students more techy, legal education expert says
Future lawyers 'must be able to effectively use technology'
Dentons junior associate charged with extortion for trying to squeeze £160,000 from his OWN partners
Michael Potere threatened to leak confidential info, according to court papers
New law graduates earn less money than social studies, education and business studies graduates
£20,000 a year average makes it one of lowest salaries
Mayer Brown reveals 73% autumn retention score
Global outfit keeps eight of its 11 NQs
Bouncebackability: Ashurst’s revenue climbs by 7% after turbulent 12 months
Meanwhile Linklaters and Taylor Wessing unveil mixed financial fortunes
‘This should alarm everyone’: Social media rages as ex-Court of Appeal judge appointed to lead Grenfell Tower inquiry
But legal Twitterati describes the hate as ‘absolutely senseless’
Revealed: The staggering differences behind universities’ LLB places
Exclusive: There are more law students at Liverpool than Oxford and Cambridge combined
Bristol University forced to apologise as ‘technical glitch’ stops final year lawyers accessing degree module results
Exclusive: Some students worried this will impact training contract applications
Lord Toulson, former Supreme Court justice, has died
He retired in 2016, but was still hearing cases as early as three weeks ago while the court looked for a replacement
QC sparks outrage after comparing solicitors to postmen
Simon Spence’s controversial comments appear in his election manifesto
There’s less office politics in law than any other industry, new research finds
Nearly a third of survey respondents thought engaging in water cooler tittle-tattle will help further their careers
DLA Piper rocked by ransomware attack … weeks after publishing ‘How to protect against cyber attacks’ guide
Just when you thought that law firms had mastered IT
Northern Irish women fighting for NHS abortions launch Strasbourg crowdfunding campaign
Taking Supreme Court defeat in their stride
An Uber-legal challenge: Jolyon Maugham QC crowdfunds more than £100,000 to launch VAT High Court case
Devereux silk is claiming 56p
Linklaters pens report on Brexit, tells government the process could be ‘overwhelming’
Adopt a principles-based approach to mammoth task
Blackstone Chambers and Simmons & Simmons lawyers representing BPP in the Supreme Court today
Battle of the brains in sticky tax dispute
Dundee student collects law degree from doctor who saved her life when she was a baby
She was baptised at one-day-old because she wasn’t expected to make it
Clyde & Co associate struck off after sending ‘misleading’ emails to conceal £500,000 error
Rajpal Singh Ahluwalia’s case collapsed after he missed an important deadline
There’s now a Supreme Court guidebook for bears
Lord Neuberger did the foreword