Judges have condemned the government’s treatment of immigration detainees in a report that is highly critical of inflexible Home Office rules and target-obsessed officials. 

Sponsored jointly by the Law Society, the Bar Council and the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEx), National Pro Bono Week 2016 (Monday 7 to Friday 11 November) begins today, celebrating and highlighting the provision of free legal advice to those in England and Wales who would otherwise not be able to get the legal advice they need. 

Two major international law firms have announced new rounds of promotions in their Irish offices. 

City law firms and accountancy firms are updating their application guidelines to consider the use of AI, with some prohibiting the technology and others celebrating it.

Formidable new powers to enforce equality legislation are needed to prevent Britain returning to the rigid class inequalities of the 1930s, David Isaac, the chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission has said. 

Contextual recruitment practices like upReach’s REALrating are being increasingly adopted by law firms to enable employers to identify hidden talent and monitor socioeconomic data. 

Law firms signed for more than 380,000 square feet of office space in the third quarter, which is 52% higher than a year ago, according to property consultancy Knight Frank. This recent increase in demand is largely down to US firms’ expansions.

The Law Society has conducted its most comprehensive ever study into the legal services market, presenting a detailed analysis of the global and UK legal markets.

More than 90% of UK law firms that responded to a survey by accountancy network MHA said they had made a profit since March 2020.

Solicitors should refuse clients’ instructions if they are discriminatory, the Law Society has said after an Afghan-born woman barrister was asked to return her instructions because the client wanted “a white male barrister”.

Barristers, solicitors, charity workers and law centre volunteers will congregate outside the Ministry of Justice tonight (18 April) in protest at the crisis in the justice system.

Bates Wells, Browne Jacobson LLP and Freeths LLP have become the latest firms to back Project Rise – “a cross-firm enterprise” initiated by the Law Society’s Disabled Solicitors Network that aims to encourage more part-time training opportunities across the legal sector. 

The topic is in for this year’s Times Law Awards essay competition sponsored by One Essex Court, and it is “Cameras in court: justice’s loss or gain?”