Category: News

Bar Council report lashes providers for churning out an expensive yet poorly regarded course -- and the aptitude test is equally lambasted

Smaller practices are outpacing larger firms, but across the board the profession is more diverse than the wider population

A Bar Council report flayed solicitor-advocates for being rubbish and Chancery Lane sat on its hands -- all because it needs to keep barristers on side in the war to save criminal legal aid

Release of online bombing map of the London Blitz shows some of the world’s biggest names in corporate law could be at risk of being blown to kingdom come

In a landmark move, barristers’ regulator gears up to authorise 15 new “entities” that look and smell a lot like solicitors’ firms -- and will compete with them

Survey of top 100 practices shows major threat to profits in battle for top talent against backdrop of continuing client pressure on fees

Some institutions are charging 150% more than the rate of inflation for the two courses required to qualify as solicitors and barristers

Knife fight looms between three branches of the profession following release of inflammatory Bar Council report

"There was nothing wrong with me being a lawyer, but I always knew there was another me, an Artist Me, lurking inside"

From Glasto to the Isle of Wight, banks of portaloos hide a potential minefield of accidents and personal injury litigation, says England’s newest lavatory law specialist

One Direction April Fools’ joke comes true (sort of) as Legal Cheek unearths a young barrister in Lincoln’s Inn who could be the boy-bander of the law

King & Wood Mallesons will keep just 12 out of 18 qualifying trainees

Young lawyers might fancy the nine-to-five routine of corporate legal departments, but an ethical swamp awaits

Philadelphia law school of many expensive names investigates how a link to Porn Hub was included in helpful guide to students

Cries of protectionism ring out as Russell Group stars are axed

Big law firms should be honest with their junior lawyers about what life is like at a top-tier practice: the money is great but it's hard work

Eversheds associate will strap on his snow shoes and trek 100 miles to play rugby at the north pole in charity world record attempt

BPP is controversially to bring its BPTC to Brum, despite only nine pupillage places available in all the West Midlands as of yesterday

Associates at Weil Gotshal’s offices around the world are fuming at ham-fisted bid by the senior partnership to take the piss out of work-life balance issues

Restricting the gong is unfair and a block to diversity in the modern profession, says legal executives group

Power cut bring chaos to lawyer-land, but several brave souls manage to get down the pub