Category: News
Slaughter and May appoints first female leader
Deborah Finkler takes up newly-created managing partner role next spring
Netflix drama to follow hot-shot lawyer’s journey on becoming her firm’s first ethnic minority female partner
Could Partner Track rival Suits?
£6 million up for grabs as Inns open bar scholarship applications
You've got to be in it to win it 🤑
Ashurst targets 35% ethnic minority and 13% Black trainees
New targets to be met by 2026
Ban for trainee solicitor who altered emails in attempt to ‘keep up with work’
Actions undermine public trust in profession, says regulator
White & Case records 78% trainee retention rate
New recruits start on £130k
Burges boosts Bristol NQ lawyer pay to £60k
Matches Osborne Clarke with extra 15% 💷
Magistrate rebuked for calling junior barrister ‘huffy’ after she was mistaken for defendant three times in one day
Jacqueline Mitchell handed formal warning for 'ill judged' tweet
Junior solicitor fined over ‘threatening’ tweets to MPs
Ex-Shoosmiths associate admits inciting abuse against politicians after SRA investigation
Should future lawyers avoid wearing brown shoes?
Unwritten rule touches a nerve
Slaughters joins magic circle rivals in upping trainee pay
Second boost this year
SQE provider BARBRI launches diversity project with law firms, universities and charity
£75k pledged so far to help broaden entry into legal profession
Top chambers join forces to launch new diversity mentoring scheme
Targets bar hopefuls seeking to specialise in planning, property and public law
Cabinet reshuffle: ex-magic circle rookie Raab appointed Justice Sec
Replaces barrister Robert Buckland
Cyber-hacked barristers win High Court judgment against ‘persons unknown’
Judge orders mystery criminals to hand over any info they may have obtained
Addleshaw Goddard latest to launch legal technologist grad scheme
Two-year scheme run from regional and Scotland offices
From picnics to kebabs: lawyers car eating habits revealed in new research
Over a quarter dine in their vehicles daily
Former City lawyer jailed over £600k frauds
Joshua Brien previously worked for the Commonwealth Secretariat and US law firm Cooley