Tag: News

BBC throws jobless LPC students a training contract lifeline

New in-house TCs start in September this year

Jan 12 2015 12:10pm

BPTC application deadline extended as website goes down on deadline day

The deadline is now noon on Wednesday

Jan 12 2015 10:32am

11 reasons to think twice about doing the BPTC

Thinking of putting in an application to do the Bar Professional Training Course before today's deadline? Read this first

Jan 12 2015 9:37am

Latham & Watkins becomes latest firm to ‘northshore’ with Manchester support office

City law firms' quest for lower overheads and staff costs continues

Jan 9 2015 11:42am

Why the cab rank rule is history

There’s never a taxi when you want one -- the solicitors’ professional body says the bar’s regulation is arcane, irrelevant and reached its sell-by date

Jan 9 2015 10:33am

2 Temple Gardens muscles to top of pupillage pay table

As 2TG award hits £67,5000, Hardwicke and 11 Stone Buildings also boost pupil money triggering a potential cash arms race for top talent

Jan 9 2015 9:45am

Morning round-up: Friday 9 January

The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts

Jan 9 2015 8:10am

Law firms ditch training contracts in favour of ‘periods of recognised training’

25-year-old term consigned to history as not-very-catchy replacement is introduced

Jan 8 2015 10:57am

Law firm faces tirade of Twitter abuse for standing by Oldham as Ched Evans saga rumbles on

CM Solicitors -- who act for Oldham as well as sponsoring the club -- face down social media backlash

Jan 8 2015 10:08am

Morning round-up: Thursday 8 January

The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts

Jan 8 2015 8:04am

Legal profession first — 2 Hare Court barrister reads telly weather

Criminal law specialist promotes second series of Judge Rinder by telling the nation that short-term forecast is going to be "terribly cold, terribly wet and thoroughly miserable”

Jan 7 2015 12:10pm

Got a deep macho voice? Best not to become a court advocate, say researchers

Study shows that confidence is far more important than sounding testosterone-fuelled when wooing judges and juries

Jan 7 2015 9:13am

Morning round-up: Wednesday 7 January

The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts

Jan 7 2015 8:10am

Lawyer appears in bizarre firm advert with foul-mouthed sex doll

A California high street practice has taken advertising to fresh heights as the founding partner has a chat with a randy doll

Jan 6 2015 3:14pm

Manchester law firm in front line of debate over possible Ched Evans move to Oldham FC

Kit sponsorship means the firm’s name would brush up against that of the convicted rapist -- but CM Solicitors says it will not pull plug on deal if the Wales international signs on at Boundary Park

Jan 6 2015 11:43am

London offices of US giants follow magic circle in bringing forward vac scheme application deadlines

Deadlines for London offices of Shearman & Sterling, Latham & Watkins and Sullivan & Cromwell are next week -- joining handful of other firms

Jan 6 2015 9:16am

5 predictions for the legal profession in 2015

A splintering graduate recruitment model will create opportunities for savvy wannabe lawyers, forecasts Legal Cheek managing editor Alex Aldridge

Jan 5 2015 10:28am

Robot solicitors? Firm and uni team up to apply artificial intelligence to law

Potential bad news for training contract hunters of the future ...

Jan 5 2015 10:04am

Law Society launches what looks like a mag for ex-jail birds — but it’s really for in-house counsel

Ludicrously-titled publication arrives as scourge of clinical negligence lawyers prepares to take Chancery Lane helm

Jan 2 2015 11:00am

Magic circle firms bring forward vac scheme application deadlines in battle to bag best students

Allen & Overy deadline was midnight on New Year's Eve -- leapfrogging rivals, whose deadlines fall in next few days

Jan 1 2015 11:29am