The Solicitors Regulation Authority has announced the appointment of Paul Phillip, currently deputy chief executive of the General Medical Council as its new chief executive.

According to a recent report in The Lawyer, increased demand has caused the waiting time for cases to progress from the Court of Appeal to the Supreme Court to more than double.

International firm Norton Rose Fulbright will introduce a new hybrid working policy, allowing staff to work remotely for up to 50% of the time once the pandemic has passed. Linklaters and Taylor Wessing have also introduced agile working strategies. 

Top earners at Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP and Pinsent Masons LLP have had their remuneration increased to approximately £3.1 million.

The number of pupillages being offered is likely to shrink as covid-19 forces chambers to defer recruitment, the Bar Standards Board revealed in a recent report.

This year’s edition of The Training Contract & Pupillage Handbook (TCPH) is finally here. This much-respected resource is the first place you should turn to for help and should be your guide as you search for the legal career that is right for you.

The country's law firms are beginning to show signs of growth after fee incomes dropped by 6.5% in 2009, according to research from the Law Society's Management Section.

Access to legal aid in civil disputes looks set to be widened slightly thanks to an offer by the Ministry of Justice to provide greater flexibility over the scope of provision.

National firm Mills & Reeve has revealed its staff will receive a bonus of at least £966 this year, following positive financial results that saw the firm’s turnover increase to £114.1 million for the year ending 31 May.

Leading regional firm Coffin Mew has completed its merger with Charles Lucas & Marshall. 

BPP University Law School will be providing the Legal Trailblazer apprenticeship from September 2016.

Black, Asian or minority ethnic partners are the most likely solicitors to suffer stress in the country, according to new research published by the Law Society.

The Social Mobility Foundation has opened applications for its 2014 programmes, including law, which provide young people from less privileged backgrounds with free mentoring, skills development, internships and support with university applications.

Women will be in the majority on a panel of Supreme Court judges for the first time ever next month, almost a century after women were first able to access the barristers’ profession.

Organised around the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta in 2015, a new scheme has been launched by Lord Dyson to send young solicitors and barristers into schools and encourage students to pursue a career in law.

Year-on-year decreases in funding for the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), which reviews the cases of people fighting miscarriages of justice, has been criticised following a sharp rise in the number of applications received by the body.

A landmark High Court judgment has ruled that BT must block access to illegal file-sharing website Newzbin2; a website accused of operating "on a grand scale" by the Motion Picture Association.

Virtual events taking place across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will celebrate the legal profession’s pro bono efforts as Pro Bono Week enters its 19th year.

Women lawyers are generally earning more than their male peers at the junior stages of their careers, but face earning less than male lawyers as their careers progress, new research from Eversheds has found.

While the London Legal Walk – the biggest meet-up of the legal year – is postponed to 5 October 2020, the London Legal Support Trust plans to mark the walk’s original date of 8 June with an alternative option: the 10,000 Steps for Justice.