Category: News

Magistrate given formal warning after researching defendant online
Help reaching decision

SQE2: Pass rate climbs slightly to 79%
Over 1,000 students sat latest assessment

US lawyer drops rap video to promote legal services
Juan LaFonta, Juan LaFonta, Juan LaFonta...

Nigeria-qualified lawyer clinches SQE scholarship for his vision of the 21st century solicitor
Noble Iheanacho secures a 50% discount on BARBRI’s SQE1 Prep course

High Court judge to sample cider in Aldi-Thatchers ‘copycat’ row
Nice work if you can get it

‘AI paralegal’ passes SQE
77% score

Call to the bar: Which Inn has the best boozer?
Ranked by future pupil barrister

Trowers: More lawyer roles at risk amid ‘continued slowdown’
Cut 18 jobs last month

Half of legal workers feel pressure to take on additional hours to ‘meet job demands’
Many do so without extra pay

Law Society publishes guidance to support disabled aspiring lawyers
Online materials, reasonable adjustments, flexible working and more

Slaughters raises newly qualified lawyer salaries to £125k
Early Christmas present

Former trainee solicitor barred for concealing criminal property
Resigns four months into TC

Junior lawyers: let us refuse work on ethical grounds
New research shows culture split

‘Are you a Jew?’ Husband and wife City lawyers subjected to ‘antisemitic attack’ on bus
Footage of incident involving associates from Slaughters and MoFo shared widely online

HFW joins solicitor apprenticeship movement
First cohort in 2024

LADbible boss takes top role at listed law firm
IPO and all-round business guru