Category: News

Solicitor super-exam could ‘devalue’ and ‘dumb down’ the law

Legal establishment comes out against plan to scrap LPC and open firms to non-graduates

Feb 16 2016 3:49pm

Impressive spring retention season continues as Osborne Clarke keeps on all its trainees

Seven out of seven March qualifiers have committed their future to the international firm

Feb 16 2016 1:04pm

Tax City lawyers to help the legal aid crisis, says founder of top legal aid firm

Human rights solicitor defends Michael Gove's legal levy idea

Feb 16 2016 11:53am

1,000-year-old tradition of recording laws on goat and calf skin hangs in balance

Peers say scrap tradition in favour of £80,000 a year savings

Feb 16 2016 9:21am

American Lord Denning found dead at luxury resort in Texas

Law students mourn loss of eccentric Supreme Court judge

Feb 15 2016 3:26pm

Simons, Muirhead & Burton partner embarrassed as ‘kufr’ video surfaces on YouTube

Footage from 1997 shows London lawyer speaking at extremist group rally in Trafalgar Square

Feb 15 2016 1:00pm

UWE law student solicitor dream in balance after attacking pal in baby photo row

Aspiring lawyer lashed out at friend in Welsh hospital

Feb 15 2016 10:27am

Top City law firms criticised for failing to stay in touch with social mobility work experience students

Two-thirds of PRIME students had no further contact with their allocated firm

Feb 12 2016 3:56pm

Revealed: the areas of the country where trainee solicitors are paid the least

South West is best -- avoid the rest, apart from the City

Feb 12 2016 12:10pm

Senior lawyers slam ‘entitled’ millennial training contract hopefuls

But they admit that corporate law is a different beast to when they were growing up

Feb 12 2016 9:04am

Sacked Chelsea FC-mad corporate solicitor who branded Liverpool fans ‘scouse scum’ lands new job at City law firm

Lawyer was fired late last year after foul-mouthed football rant that swept YouTube

Feb 11 2016 4:43pm

Ministry of Justice confirms 86 courts across England and Wales WILL close

Twenty-two that are set to close will be relocated to other sites

Feb 11 2016 1:54pm

Number of criminal solicitors set to rise as Michael Gove has a major change of heart

Weren't the government meant to be cutting the number of criminal law firms a few weeks ago?

Feb 11 2016 12:22pm

Outdated common law marriage rules dragged through the courts

But should grieving grandmother have listened to cast-iron legal advice from Beyoncé?

Feb 10 2016 3:02pm

Starbucks not so starry

Coffee powerhouse in the doghouse

Feb 10 2016 12:23pm

YouGov research shows the majority of people fancy themselves as judges

Stress of the job doesn't put them off

Feb 10 2016 10:40am

Wragge & Co gear up for Gowling WLG name switch

Newly formed international firm will continue to “review” training contract numbers post merger

Feb 10 2016 9:34am

Law firms flock to the West Country as Bristol is declared biggest legal centre after London

Is surfing helping to give law firms the Bristol bug?

Feb 9 2016 1:21pm

UKIP gay rights barrister quits party due to ‘vile homophobe’ in open Facebook letter

Strand Chambers’ Richard Hendron claims political party is “becoming even more small-minded"

Feb 9 2016 12:34pm

BPP Law School owner Apollo Education to be sold for £760 million

US education giant will be purchased by group of investors

Feb 9 2016 11:33am