Category: News

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

Slaughters makes ‘reduced hours for reduced pay’ permanent option for lawyers
Follows succesful pilot

Ex-Linklaters associate sells CrowdJustice for undisclosed fee
Julia Salasky living the dream as she turns focus to her second business, a $25 million legal tech start-up

Solicitor who slapped paralegal on the buttocks suspended
Four separate allegations

Re-start of University of Hertfordshire Bar Course is delayed
Bar Standards Board says uni isn't ready to resume next month, as had been planned

Judges encouraged to embrace AI — carefully
What could possibly go wrong?

A&O Shearman to be led by Magic Circle partners
'Shearman & Sterling partners will hold very significant leadership positions globally and regionally' but the top jobs will go to Allen & Overy lawyers this time around