Category: News

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

Solicitor offered friend a training contract that didn’t exist
And he's been struck off as a result

Axiom Ince: Dawn raids and arrests as Serious Fraud Office launches probe
Over £60 million missing from client account

Paralegal asks if it’s OK to get a second job… as a paralegal
'You almost certainly should not do this'

Bakers targets A Level students with social mobility support programme
Skills sessions, networking, mentorship and more

Lawyers among least likely to have workplace affairs
Loyal lovers

Suspension for prosecuting barrister who pursued ‘romantic interest’ in defendant
Misused personal contact info

Pro Bono Week: Retired lawyers encouraged to offer free legal support
Evokes spirit of NHS during the pandemic

A&O suffers cyber attack
Impacts small number of storage servers, says firm

BSB maintains ban on online exams following ‘clear evidence of cheating’
Pen and paper for foreseeable