Category: News
Top City law firms come together to run diversity ‘hackathon’
Legal CORE aims to increase representation of BAME individuals in private practice through collaborative forums and crowdsourcing ideas
Ex-Dechert partner to settle ‘spying’ claim against former client
Neil Gerrard reportedly agrees compensation deal that leaves former firm on the hook for costs
Law student marries princess ‘but fails bar exam’
Mixed few days for Kei Komuro
Stephenson Harwood to offer lawyers electric car perk
New initiative available through salary sacrifice with money firm saves put towards other green initiatives
Ashurst to offer course in imposter syndrome
City firm looks to help aspiring lawyers set broader definitions of 'success' and 'accomplishment'
Mishcon fined £25k over football agent fees
Breached account rules
Fieldfisher teams up with client Peloton to create ‘diversity vac scheme’
Two-week programme for aspiring lawyers from unrepresented groups
Clydes gives lawyers coloured wristbands so they can indicate how Covid cautious they are
Traffic light system 🚦
Lawyers out-earn doctors and dentists with £93k average salary
Chief execs top 2021 earnings table with £131k, new stats show
‘Diversity is not optional — it’s what we must be’
Senior legal figures discuss issues around Black lawyer retention and career progression during Dechert-sponsored panel event to mark Black History Month
Revealed: Law firms’ average start work and finish times 2021-22
Legal Cheek exclusive research shows how the average working hours for junior lawyers have fared in the face of changing work arrangements
UK law firm becomes first to sell legal advice as NFT
Crypto art 🤝 billable hours
SQE prep provider launches £50k social mobility scholarship fund
Law Training Centre's 'Access to Law' scheme enables candidates to complete part one prep course for just £950
City Consortium outlines SQE plan for future trainees
11-month programme includes super-exam prep and 'bespoke' top-up course
Macfarlanes launches ‘app scheme’
TC hopefuls can now get the 'trainee experience' via their phones
Disbarment for barrister who asked fellow lawyer to lie about sex assault
Handed suspended sentence earlier this year
Don’t scrap the bar aptitude test, urges Bar Council. Up the pass mark instead
BSB mulls ditching entry exam after report found fewer than 1% of wannabe barristers fail to pass it
Top law professors pen letter in support of academic freedom
Intervention follows student protests targeting philosophy prof Kathleen Stock
BARBRI tests commercial awareness and creative thinking with new full SQE1 scholarship
What do you think the law firm of the future will look like?
Abertay law grad sues uni over probe into ‘offensive’ gender comments
Lisa Keogh was cleared of wrongdoing but is now taking legal action for 'stress caused at the most crucial part of my university career'
First practising female barrister commemorated with London blue plaque
Lady Hale unveiled the historical marker