Tag: News

Expert: Law Society claim that rising pro bono is filling the legal aid gap is ‘misleading’

Volunteering by lawyers to help individuals hit by cuts may actually be falling

Nov 4 2014 12:01pm

Morning round-up: Tuesday 4 November

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

Nov 4 2014 8:12am

The end of the training contract? Law school and firm combine to launch new ‘articled apprenticeship’ route

It means students working through their degree, but they could qualify as solicitors debt free

Nov 3 2014 2:40pm

The Citizenship Foundation is developing a very cool legal education app — and it needs law student and lawyer writers

Help charity create legal plotlines to engage young people with the law

Nov 3 2014 12:31pm

Inns scholarship money wasted on ‘expensive, unproductive’ BPTC, says former Lord Chief Justice

Entry to the bar could be on the verge of a historic overhaul

Nov 3 2014 10:05am

Morning round-up: Monday 3 November

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

Nov 3 2014 7:57am

For a judge that’s ‘right up to 11’: livid Sir James Munby launches most scathing attack on Grayling yet

Shocking case — which saw vulnerable couple and their child denied legal aid — makes the blood of nation’s top family judge boil

Oct 31 2014 7:00pm

Halloween exclusive: Son of Dracula speaks to Legal Cheek — he’s a lawyer

Bela Lugosi Jr is a longstanding top flight Hollywood attorney who was instrumental in campaign for groundbreaking image rights legislation in California

Oct 31 2014 11:07am

Bar regulators launch yet another education and training review

Latest reform package from Bar Standards Board seems long on jargon and short on specifics

Oct 31 2014 10:24am

Morning round-up: Friday 31 October

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

Oct 31 2014 8:08am

The Apprentice review: ex-Slaughter and May associate humiliated in ‘Fat Daddy’ video flop

What happens when lawyers try to get videos to go viral on purpose

Oct 30 2014 10:27am

Full transcript: dictator Manuel Noriega’s failed claim against Call of Duty makers for basing character on him

Panama’s former military hard-man sees case thrown out of court

Oct 30 2014 8:57am

Morning round-up: Thursday 30 October

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

Oct 30 2014 8:08am

New Tumblr names and shames media outlets which misuse gavels

A blogger on a leading social media site has joined Legal Cheek’s crusade against the misuse of little wooden hammer imagery -- but is it a losing battle?

Oct 29 2014 12:38pm

City law firm drafting fail makes Dubai student dream break impossible to win

Because lawyers can draft error-free terms and conditions, right?

Oct 29 2014 9:45am

Morning round-up: Wednesday 29 October

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

Oct 29 2014 7:58am

Legal pic the of the day

Who cycles in their wig?

Oct 28 2014 5:18pm

Martha Costello QC to become a US attorney as she swaps chambers for ‘world’s top law firm’

Star of BBC legal drama to follow a reverse version of Amal Clooney's career path in American re-make

Oct 28 2014 12:49pm

Why aren’t big law firms aiming for half their partners to be women?

Latest round of 30% women partner targets look do-able — but why so unambitious?

Oct 28 2014 9:09am

Morning round-up: Tuesday 28 October

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

Oct 28 2014 8:13am