Leading multinational firm Dentons has launched a second ‘PopLaw’ legal advice clinic in the London borough of Tower Hamlets, following the success of its first weekly pro bono centre in the Poplar area of the borough. 

The Bar Council has launched a central London childcare facility, in recognition of the fact that "many barristers in the current climate with caring responsibilities are feeling under growing pressure".

Law firm earnings were up in 2024 but it’s taking longer for firms to get paid, according to the Law Society’s 2025 Financial Benchmarking Survey.

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Yesterday’s budget is on everyone’s lips, with analysis of who will benefit, who will suffer and general comment on what it means about the state of the UK economy.

The government has announced the closure of 86 courts across England and Wales - almost one fifth of all courts and tribunals in the country.

Following publication of the 2017 Judicial Diversity Statistics, the Chair of the Bar Council's Equality and Diversity Committee, Robin Allen QC, has demanded there be greater action on judicial diversity.

International law firm Norton Rose Fulbright is running a competition alongside Harlequins rugby club, offering the prizes of a week of work experience at Norton Rose Fulbright’s London office, as well as a trip to the Stoop, the home of Harlequins.

National law firm Shoosmiths has been recognised at three awards events, including LawCareers.Net’s Training and Recruitment Awards, in the area of graduate employment.

First reported in Legal Futures, the SRA has now formally announced that it will not be ready to start regulating alternative business structures (ABS) in early October because of parliamentary delays.

Lawyers and litigants have been told to address judges in court or at hearings simply as ‘judge’, instead of ‘sir’ or ‘madam’ as part of new guidance.

Barristers' clerks are keen to be regulated and, by extension, recognised as a profession in their own right.

Lawyer2B has reported that Eversheds has launched a new student academy that aims to support them from A-levels right up to graduation.

The National Association of Licensed Paralegals (NALP) has launched the Level 5 Diploma for Senior Associate Paralegals, the first Ofqual regulated qualification for paralegals at this level.

The Bar Standards Board has introduced a new central portal for all students who wish to study the BPTC.

Ropes & Gray has launched a new social mobility scholarship programme designed for first-year university students from diverse and underserved low socioeconomic backgrounds in the UK. 

The Bar Standards Board has today published its annual report into Diversity at the Bar.

Despite high stress levels across the profession and the widespread practise of going into work when sick, new research published by the Law Society has claimed that solicitors are in better general health than the general population.

Reported instances of bullying and harassment at the Bar have increased in recent years, according to a survey of barristers’ working lives by the Bar Council.

Slaughter and May's latest pay review has cut the firm's trainee bonuses and frozen its associate salaries, while bonuses for support staff will remain the same as last year.