City firms have revealed plans to reduce office space, as lawyers forecast remote working to become the new norm.

According to reports in The Lawyer, the Law Society has warned the owner of Solicitors from Hell to remove the website from the Internet or face High Court action.

International law firm CMS has launched its ‘next generation’ vacation scheme as part of its CMS Academy programme. 

Staff at Stephenson Harwood LLP can work from home permanently in return for a 20% pay cut, as part of the firm’s new remote working policy which is set to be enforced this month. 

BPP Law School is increasing its course fees by 5% for September 2012’s intake of wannabe lawyers.

Top law firms have announced their autumn retention rates, following the lead of Shearman & Sterling which revealed in June that it would keep on 11 of its 12 NQs.

The Bar Council has warned that the government's plans to introduce competitive tendering for legal aid contracts and deny defendants the right to choose a lawyer will undermine the UK justice system's good reputation among the international community.

Conservative MP Chris Grayling has replaced Ken Clarke as the country's justice secretary, following a reshuffle by Prime Minister David Cameron on 4 September.

The alternative 'equivalent means' route to qualifying as a solicitor has been successfully completed for the first time by Robert Houchill, who had been working as a senior paralegal in the immigration team at Bates Wells Braithwaite and is now a solicitor in the same team.

The Law Society has published its Annual Statistical Report, which seems to suggest that the pressure on practising solicitors is beginning to show.

The University of Law in Hong Kong has welcomed its first official cohort as students at the campus begin their part-time and full-time GDL courses.

The Bar Standards Board has agreed to change parental leave rules to enable all self-employed barristers to take leave, regardless of whether their spouse or partner has also done so.

DWF has been named one of The Times Top 50 Employers For Women for the second consecutive year.

Crime solicitors have lost their appeal against the government's plans to cut the number of duty solicitors' contracts by two thirds – a decision which the Law Society has said could lead to vulnerable people being denied access to justice.

Leading UK law firms are split on what stage they will allow candidates to commence training contracts when the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE) is introduced in 2021, according to new findings.

A long-running pilot scheme trialling a new way for students to qualify as solicitors has come to a close at Nottingham Law School.

A major 16-month judicial review of Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s decision to cut £321 million from NHS’s community pharmacy budget has ended with a High Court judgment in favour of the government. 

The ability of international firms with UK offices to recruit from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) is crucial if London is to remain a leading global centre for legal services, the Law Society has told the independent government advisory body, the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC).