Members of the Criminal Bar Association are due to vote on whether to replace the current fortnightly strikes with uninterrupted ones as of 5 September.  

Those bereaved and/or injured in the terrorist attack on London Bridge and Borough Market will receive free legal advice from a panel of law firms being put together by the Law Society, the pro bono charity LawWorks and the City of London Law Society. 

LawWorks is expanding its pro bono legal advice programme to help more small charities, community groups and social enterprises.

The bodies representing solicitors, barristers and chartered legal executives have pledged to “achieve gender equality in the senior ranks” by getting firms and chambers to sign up to specific gender targets.

King’s College London has launched a new student-run legal advice centre. As the Law Gazette reports, the advice centre will be staffed by volunteer third-year law students, covering family issues under the supervision of solicitors at national firm Stowe Family Law.

A pupil barrister has won first prize in the Bar Council’s essay competition with a damning dissection of the legality of the UK government’s use of drones to kill people.

Solicitors representing young people in the youth courts are to receive specialist support from the Solicitors Regulation Authority to help them meet the needs of their young clients. 

The delegate fees from this year’s LawCareersNetLIVE conferences will be donated to two legal charities.

University students are playing an important role in providing free legal aid as law schools forecast a rise in demand for pro bono support, following unmet need and the ongoing impact of legal aid cuts.

US firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher (UK) LLP and global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright have both raised the salaries for their newly qualified (NQ) solicitors in London to £170,000 and £135,000, respectively. 

Baker McKenzie and Travers Smith LLP have become the latest law firms to announce increases in pay for their newly qualified (NQ) lawyers. 

In this brand-new LCN podcast episode, LawCareers.Net’s Niamh Gray (they/them) teams up with leading lawyers Danni Davies (Latham & Watkins) and Michael Tushingham (Gowling WLG (UK) LLP) to discuss what it’s like to be LGBTQ+ in the legal industry. 

Several law firms are rewarding their staff with extra pay or holiday as a ‘thank you’ for their efforts during the pandemic.

Lightsource Renewable Energy has recently been granted SRA accreditation to take on trainees, joining a small group of companies in the United Kingdom that offer in-house training contracts.

The Co-operative Group launched its family law operation on 20 September, further evidence of the crucial role this organisation is playing in the post -Legal Services Act world.

Ending years of speculation over whether universities favour certain A-level subjects, the Russell Group has issued guidance on which subjects are most likely to earn students a place at a top 20 institution.

The government's legal aid cuts have been condemned in an open letter signed by over 100 judges, lawyers, victims and peers who feel that the issue of legal aid has not been raised enough in the run up to the general election.

A recent survey has revealed that 29% of legal aid practitioners and 38% of criminal practitioners are uncertain about whether to renew their practising certificate in 2021.