Creative types within advertising agencies occasionally come up with campaign ideas that breach Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) rules or stray dangerously close to costly defamation or the infringement of third-party IP rights.

The Junior Lawyers Division is running an essay competition for its student and trainee members, with the question "What impact should the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill have on the Legal Education and Training Review?".

The BBC is opening applications for three in-house training contracts at the beginning of March.

Clifford Chance has published pay inequality data covering ethnicity, disability and sexuality, in addition to mandatory reporting on gender.

Many firms offer to pay their future trainees’ PGDL and SQE fees if they’ve been recruited at undergraduate level. 

Some 20% of current legal roles are likely to be lost to the progress of automation and artificial intelligence over the next 20 years, the Law Society’s research unit has predicted. 

On 16 May lawyers, judges and law students will hit the streets of the capital to raise money for legal advice agencies in London and the Southeast.

Women and black and ethnic minority (BME) barristers are still badly under-represented in the barristers profession, the Bar Standards Board’s (BSB) annual diversity report for 2015 has revealed.

Magic circle firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has announced a new programme within its diversity networks, supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees.

The legal press, including Legal Business and the Law Society Gazette, have reported that Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is seeking a Manchester office as part of a 'near-shoring' strategy.

Lawyers working within and for media and entertainment clients may seem like the rock stars of the legal world, but they must be persistent and versatile to succeed.

In collaboration with student-led commercial awareness site LittleLaw, LawCareers.Net has announced an essay competition for law students and aspiring lawyers.

Slaughter and May has announced the introduction of a new scheme, which allows associates to reduce their working hours for less pay, enabling them the “time to pursue other interests and maintain a greater work/life balance”.

Magic circle firm Clifford Chance has revealed its strongest set of financial results as the firm’s profits increase despite a volatile final quarter.

The government is to continue with its plans to increase court fees for immigration and asylum cases by up to 500%, despite near-unanimous opposition from lawyers, law centres, unions and community groups.

Suffolk Law Centre, launched last year to fill the gap of legal advice services in the county, has helped 2,300 people in its first year.

CILEx president Nick Hanning has urged Justice Secretary Chris Grayling to make further concessions to his controversial plans to change legal aid, following a partial U-turn on the government’s proposal to deny legal aid recipients the right to choose a lawyer.