Category: News

A&O Shearman sets out City office plans
Merger gathers pace

Slaughters gets tough on desk ditchers with office entry monitoring
Data shared with management

Weil bumps newly qualified lawyer salaries to £170k
Latest City rise

Mishcon acquires flexi-lawyer business
London firm moves into alternative legal services market

Bar Council chair urges party leaders to commit funding for 100 extra criminal pupillages
‘Eye-catching manifesto’

Post Office scandal: SRA unlikely to expedite lawyer prosecutions
Likely wait until inquiry's conclusion

City solicitor fined £10k for holding out to be sole practitioner
Motivated by compassion

SRA recruits more staff to handle Axiom Ince fallout
Deal with compensation claims

US firms dominate M&A work as deals slump to decade low
Tech suffers particularly badly

SRA fines law firm for failing to provide diversity data
First of its kind

January event dates for aspiring solicitors and barristers
Featuring Travers Smith, Clifford Chance, Hill Dickinson, Gatehouse and more!

SQE students voice frustration over erroneous exam slot cancellation email
Kaplan stresses assessments will go ahead as planned, apologises for confusion

Win an SQE1 scholarship with your vision of what motivates young people to be solicitors
New BARBRI essay comp

SRA misses deadline for publishing SQE provider pass rates
Issues statement that leaves open possibility of it never happening

BCLP braces for low trainee retention rate
Exclusive: Firm stresses final figures still to be finalised

Super regulator probes events leading up to SRA’s closure of Axiom Ince
Important for public confidence, says LSB

Number of ‘privileged’ solicitors remains high
But significant progress in other areas, says regulator