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Research shows in-house lawyers pushed to the brink of illegality
Young lawyers might fancy the nine-to-five routine of corporate legal departments, but an ethical swamp awaits Corporate in-house legal departments have become increasingly attractive to younger...
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Only 66% of qualifying lawyers to remain at King & Wood Mallesons
Massive global law firm will wave good-bye to six of its 18 qualifying former trainees as it continues poor retention rate run Sino-Australian-English law firm giant King & Wood Mallesons — which...
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Could festival toilets law be the hot new practice area of 2015?
From Glasto to the Isle of Wight, banks of portaloos hide a potential minefield of accidents and personal injury litigation, says England’s newest lavatory law specialist Music festival hazards usually...
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Lawyer uses lego to reveal the artist inside
“There was nothing wrong with me being a lawyer, but I always knew there was another me, an Artist Me, lurking inside” This lego creation of a red man climbing out of a grey man has been wowing...
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Bar blasts solicitors for ‘dumbing down’ Crown Court advocacy — and calls for...
Knife fight looms between three branches of the profession following release of inflammatory Bar Council report that borders on calling for the clock to be turned back A glut of solicitor-advocates is...
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Revealed: how law school fees have spiralled far beyond rate of inflation...
Some institutions are charging 150% more than the rate of inflation for the two courses required to qualify as solicitors and barristers Law schools are charging as much as 150% above the historic rate...
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City law firm associates and partners set to coin it in looming salary war
Survey of top 100 practices shows major threat to profits in battle for top talent against backdrop of continuing client pressure on fees A salary war for top talent is about to break out among City...
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Legal profession fused through back door – and it’s the bar that left it open
In a landmark move, barristers’ regulator gears up to authorise 15 new “entities” that look and smell a lot like solicitors’ firms — and will compete with them The legal professions of England and...
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Spelling mistake – or subtly clever marketing gambit?
Indian lawyers launch innovative bid to raise profile and bag piles of global law firm referrals Is this a developing world English spelling mistake — or something deeper? Legal Cheek is plumping for...
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Is there an unexploded Nazi bomb under your law firm?
Release of online bombing map of the German aerial blitz on London shows some of the world’s biggest names in corporate law could be at risk of being blown to kingdom come Forget downwards pressure on...
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The Judge Rules: Why the Law Society won’t stick up for solicitor-advocates
A Bar Council report flayed solicitor-advocates for being rubbish and Chancery Lane sat on its hands — all because it needs to keep barristers on side in the war to save criminal legal aid Any...
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Law firm trainee diversity on the up, according to regulator’s figures
Smaller practices are outpacing larger firms, but across the board the profession is more diverse than the wider population Large commercial law firms may be talking up their diversity programmes, but...
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Legal aid lawyers depicted as menage a trois loving superheroes in lobbying film
City law firms back star-studded cast in pre-general election bid to alert public to dangers of cuts to the publicly funded system Legal aid lawyers are so impoverished — or just plain randy — that...
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Labour politicians don’t want to talk about their vague legal aid manifesto...
Key opposition figures fail to respond to leading legal tweeter David Allen Green Labour published its manifesto today. The bit about the legal system was almost entirely contained in three paragraphs...
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16 reasons why Doughty Street’s Tunde Okewale is the most followed barrister...
Amal Clooney’s chambers colleague is rocking the Insta-verse 39 Essex Chambers’ Justine Thornton quietly joined Instagram the other day, and immediately hauled in an impressive 587 followers with 13...
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Yet another copyright infringement has surfaced on Twitter
Is Tesos Express the best example yet of cheeky local retailers tweaking the tails of national and multinational behemoths — and will they get away with it? Legal Cheek has highlighted several...
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Legal profession doesn’t rate Tory manifesto pledge to scrap Human Rights Act
Anger as Conservatives promise Bill of Rights and to reduce power of European Court of Human Rights — oh, and hint at more legal aid cuts Top lawyers have reacted angrily on social media to the Tories’...
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Clifford Chance cancels YouTube rant trainee’s Singapore secondment amid...
Exclusive: Fall-out from anti-West rant continues to cause magic circle firm difficulties Clifford Chance has ditched plans to send YouTube rant trainee Aysh Chaudhry on secondment to Singapore amid...
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Essex Uni law grad first over line to qualify as solicitor through paralegal...
30 year-old narrowly beats gaggle of paralegals to equivalent means qualification that bypasses training contract A graduate of the University of Essex who slogged it out as a paralegal for four years...
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Birds of prey swoop into Inns of Court to protect bald barristers from...
Life for follicly-challenged lawyers made a misery by London gulls — but help on hand International commentators often gently mock UK barristers for persisting with 18th-century court dress, but now...
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