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Martha Costello QC to become a US attorney as she swaps chambers for ‘world’s...
Star of BBC legal drama to follow a reverse version of Amal Clooney’s career path in American re-make After having seemingly been confined to legal drama history, Martha Costello is back. It began so...
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City law firm drafting fail makes Dubai student dream break impossible to win
Because lawyers can draft error-free terms and conditions, right? Only formed in May, Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co is keen to promote its global presence to prospective trainees. So the firm — an...
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Full transcript: dictator Manuel Noriega’s failed claim against Call of Duty...
Panama’s former military hard-man sees case thrown out of court Gamers around the world will be raising a glass to former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, after the lawyer batted away a court challenge...
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The Apprentice Week 3 review: ex-Slaughter and May associate humiliated in...
What happens when lawyers try to get videos to go viral on purpose We went into last night’s episode having lost five candidates from The Apprentice, but so far the two solicitors — ex Slaughter and...
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10 City law firms that are offering vac schemes this winter — for which it’s...
But you’ll need to get moving … Already the first application deadline for 2014 winter vac schemes has passed, with magic circle firm Slaughter and May‘s super-early 18 October deadline slipping by...
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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 When Hollywood stars feel the corporate leaches...
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For a judge that’s ‘right up to 11’: livid Sir James Munby launches most...
Shocking case — which saw vulnerable couple and their child denied legal aid — makes the blood of nation’s top family judge boil An eye-catching judgment — embedded in full below — from the president...
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The end of the training contract? Law school and firm combine to launch new...
It means students working through their degree, but they could qualify as solicitors debt free Back in the old days it was relatively common for solicitors to qualify via one-the-job training known as...
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Diversity quotas: would they be legal, would they make a difference?
Breaking the dominance of the MAWM (middle-aged white man) is even harder than some campaigning groups realise, says Judge John Hack How diverse — socially, ethnically and sexually — is the UK legal...
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Expert: Law Society claim that rising pro bono is filling the legal aid gap...
Volunteering by lawyers to help individuals hit by cuts may actually be falling The Law Society president Andrew Caplen yesterday described the scale of free legal work done by lawyers as “humbling” —...
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Solicitor coughs up tens of thousands in internet dating blackmail honey trap
“No Strings Adult Fun” turns out to have lots of strings attached for lawyer A Leeds solicitor has fallen into a honey trap as old as the hills in a story that eventually saw his blackmailer handed a...
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Should English law school chiefs follow US example of being ‘roasted’?
Heads of ULaw and BPP could benefit from American tradition On the basis that anything to do with the legal profession in the US will eventually wend its way across the Atlantic, then English law...
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The top 10 law fair freebies of 2014
It has been a vintage year The tentatively recovering graduate legal job market has propelled City law firms to new heights as they battle to woo the cream of Britain’s students during the 2014 law...
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Now Scots aim for independence from God
Humanist group throws thousands at research into rooting out “special laws, practises or exemptions for religions or religious organisations” north of the border Alex Salmond and his merry band of...
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The Apprentice Review: Ex-Slaughter and May man returns to scene of BCL...
Family lawyer beats City lawyer in Oxford tour face-off — but both march on to next round After last week’s humiliation of Felipe — which saw the mildly portly ex-Slaughter and May solicitor appear in...
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Crown Court solicitor-advocate tells barristers to stop being so smug
The leader of the London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association hits out at the patronising bar — as well as the government for turning Magna Carta celebrations into a “legal business fair” Criminal...
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Number of privately educated lawyers at Linklaters suddenly halves as it...
Magic circle firm gets into a tangle with statistics The news that magic circle giant Linklaters and international mega firm Baker & McKenzie have become government-backed “social mobility...
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Trainee solicitor who tried to pull Chris Huhne-style scam to protect father...
Law career hopes of solicitor-to-be dashed A former trainee solicitor has failed to overturn a Chris Huhne-style conviction for involvement in speed camera fraud. Asha Khan — who was a trainee at her...
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Ex-poly offers City partner-level wedge to fill junior lawyer slot
Recruitment website typo gets hearts racing, but actual salary is far more like what you’d expect For a brief moment it looked as though the legal recruitment market was experiencing a...
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Trainee solicitors branded ‘young fogeys’ in The Tab’s latest swipe at legal...
Student website isn’t keen on lawyers Trainee solicitors are old-before-their-time bores who stay in on Friday nights planning “their gloomy suburban future”, The Tab has claimed. So unimaginative are...
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