Thirty Nine Essex Street Chambers is welcoming 24 members of 4-5 Gray's Inn Square, including seven QCs, into the fold in a group move from the rival set.

Irwin Mitchell and The College of Law have joined forces with an agreement that will see members of the firm offered tailored training at all levels of their careers.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority’s online enrolment application system is now open to students wishing to commence the Legal Practice Course in 2013.

Nearly 80% of UK employers have a gender pay gap that favours men in 2022-2023.  

Failures to disclose evidence caused the collapse of 47 rape and sexual assault cases in the first six weeks of 2018 alone, according to a review published by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).

Organisers of the 10km London Legal Walk on 19 May 2014 are calling for more participants to sign up and raise money for charities providing free legal advice in London.

Career-changers interested in a career in the legal profession will be interested to know that The College of Law in Birmingham is holding a series of events, called Switch to Law, aimed at people without a law degree who want to become lawyers.

Cornish law firm Stephens Scown has agreed a new shared-ownership partnership, similar to that made famous by John Lewis, which will see all members of staff - including trainees - entitled to an equal share of the firm’s profits.

The number of domestic violence victims having to represent themselves against their abusers in court without a lawyer has more than doubled since 2012.

The Law Society City Legal Index, which tracks those deals that the top 50 UK law firms have been involved with, has released figures which show that the total number of deals decreased in the first half of 2015.

Family law specialist Dawson Cornwell has awarded its second annual Peter Clarke prize to Rebecca Hazeldine, a former College of Law student who gained outstanding results in the family law module of the LPC.

The legal profession’s use of the ‘BAME’ label to group Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic lawyers has been criticised by chair of the Bar Council, Derek Sweeting QC.

In March, magic circle firm Clifford Chance increased its maintenance grant for the Legal Practice Course (LPC) by 25% to £12,500 to match the funding being offered to its Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE) trainees. 

BPP Law School has announced the introduction of £84,000 worth of scholarships and pupillage support for its Bar Professional Training Course programmes taught at its London, Leeds and Manchester centres

The number of solicitor apprenticeships has jumped by 40% in just a year, according to the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s (SRA) report.

Magic circle firm Clifford Chance has announced that its summer vacation scheme will go ahead virtually, as coronavirus social distancing measures look set to remain in place for an extended period.

As reported in Legal Week, law firms Eversheds, HBJ Gateley Wareing and Trowers & Hamlins are advising football clubs Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham on their competing bids to take over the 2012 Olympic stadium when the games finish.

This October, southwest firm Foot Anstey will add Bristol to its list of offices, which currently includes Exeter, Plymouth, Taunton and Truro.

The University of Law has announced the addition of a law and business programme to its Legal Practice Course offering.