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Allen & Overy to create space in its offices for lawtech start-ups

Posted on 29 March 2017

International firm Allen & Overy is set to house a special office for start-up ‘lawtech’ businesses.

Climate change and the legal profession

Posted on 01 November 2022

How can lawyers help to address climate change through their work?

Rubies are red: the handbook's back!

Posted on 24 October 2011

Encased in a sleeve of deep cerise, this year's appetizing edition of The Training Contract & Pupillage Handbook is good enough to eat.

Bar Council report attacks legal executive and solicitor advocates, as well as BPTC providers

Posted on 20 April 2015

A report funded by the Bar Council has strongly criticised the trend of legal executive advocates and solicitor-advocates.

The discount rate review: fairer compensation or fundamentally flawed?

Posted on 07 November 2017

Will the government’s cut to the discount rate, which determines how much compensation insurers must pay to claimants who have suffered life-changing injuries, amount to a fairer system?

Healthy competition

Posted on 28 April 2009

Why is competition law so integral to practising law in Brussels?

Mass defection to Thirty Nine Essex Street

Posted on 03 December 2012

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.

GROW Mentoring

Posted on 27 March 2023

Attorney general encourages students to consider a career with the GLS

Posted on 13 September 2013

The Government Legal Service, which is offering opportunities to trainee solicitors and pupil barristers, has been promoted by Attorney General Dominic Grieve to university career advisers.

Magistrates’ court workforce to enter nine-day strike period

Posted on 07 September 2022

Staff at the magistrates’ court are set to begin a nine-day strike from the 10th to the 18th of September, adding to existing disruption in the UK’s criminal justice system.

Finalists announced – National Paralegal Awards 2021

Posted on 23 August 2021

Finalists have been announced for the prestigious National Paralegal Awards, which set out to find the best paralegals in the UK and businesses that support the legal industry.

It’s easy being green: The Training Contract & Pupillage Handbook is back!

Posted on 17 October 2014

Demonstrate that you take being green seriously by getting your hands on a copy of this year’s verdant edition of The Training Contract & Pupillage Handbook, enrobed in this year’s most on-trend colour.

Majority of Bar pupils in 2011-12 enrolled on BPTC without having landed a pupillage

Posted on 15 April 2014

Some 70% of first-six pupil barristers in 2011-12 enrolled on the BPTC without having secured pupillage, according to the joint annual report made by the Bar Council and the Bar Standards Board earlier this month.

upReach

Posted on 23 January 2024

Do you want to get a head start on your graduate career, gain professional skills, and secure exclusive work experience opportunities in the legal sector? Then

Amicus

Posted on 22 March 2023

Amicus runs various volunteer placement programmes.

Sheffield Hallam University creates first student law firm

Posted on 20 February 2019

Sheffield Hallam University has become the first university to set up a fully functioning law firm so that its students can gain work experience during their studies. SHU Law is a not-for-profit alternative business structure that was licensed by the Solicitors Regulation Authority in January.

Max Alexander-Jones - Uber and the Supreme Court

Posted on 08 June 2021

On 19th February 2021, the Supreme Court handed down a judgment which will have enormous ramifications on large swathes of the gig economy.

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Cassandra Zhou - Can facial recognition be justified?

Posted on 14 October 2022

Facial recognition technology recognises an individual's identity by examining images of their face. It’s easy to think of the advantages, such as aiding law enforcement to track down suspects when the photos of their faces from surveillance cameras are provided.

Supreme Court will open up and diversify when current judges retire, says Neuberger

Posted on 25 November 2016

The president of the Supreme Court, Lord Neuberger, has announced measures to diversify the roster of Supreme Court judges as upcoming retirements create vacancies over the next couple of years.