Coronavirus: why has there been an increase in the risk posed by cyber attacks and how can businesses mitigate this risk?

Read this week’s commercial news round-up for some of the latest news relating to the business and legal worlds.

National firm Irwin Mitchell is offering free 20-minute consultations to domestic abuse victims until the coronavirus crisis ends. According to the Law Gazette, the firm said it feels “duty bound” to support domestic abuse victims as UK lockdown continues in a bid to slow down the spread of the pandemic.

As the Leveson Inquiry rumbles on, it has published details of its costs in the period from July 2011 until January 2012, revealing that over £600,000 of public money has been spent on barristers' fees alone.

With people in the Midlands and the North of England in “dire need of early legal advice”, the Bar Council has called for the government to invest in local court systems ahead of today’s spending review.

Will the judicial ruling that expert evidence is a requisite for professional negligence cases curb the number of opportunistic claims?

Rishi Sunak’s U-turn on net-zero pledges, "an act of weakness” or a necessary adjustment to prevent “bankrupting the British people”? You decide. More on this in our first story, plus we’ll be covering the future of Uber, police suspensions, shares in tech giant Toshiba and Katy Perry.  

Last week the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) announced that 20 Nightingale courtrooms, across nine venues, will remain open this year to tackle the huge number of outstanding cases. 

The Law Society Gazette reports that this year, the proportion of trainees being retained at the top City firms has increased to an average of 83%.

The Law Teacher of the Year Award 2011 has gone to University of Westminster professor of law and theory Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos.

If you’re planning to read law at university and want book recommendations, look no further. Here are the books I read before starting my university degree.

Carl Rix is a tenant at Old Square Chambers. He gives advice to aspiring barristers, discusses the importance of trusting your own judgement and explains how the debating society at Swansea University led him to the Bar. 

Holman Fenwick Willan has launched a Global Lawyers Challenge, the prize for which is a full day at HFW's Paris, Athens or Geneva office over the course of a two-night stay.

There has been a recent increase in barristers’ chambers and law firms introducing mentoring for aspiring lawyers from underrepresented groups to boost diversity and inclusion.

I’m a humanities graduate planning to save up before taking a law conversion course. What paid work can I do that will be valuable for a career in law?

In this guide we outline some of the key issues facing the UK legal profession, as well as headline-grabbing legal updates and mergers – are you in the know?

National law firm Browne Jacobson LLP announced its partnership with O Shaped last week, a movement founded in 2019 that aims to drive “positive change” across the legal industry. 

The four Inns of Court are in the process of accepting applications for 2017-18 BPTC scholarships, with a closing date for all of Friday 4 November 2016. Although they share a deadline, each of Gray’s, Inner Temple, Lincoln’s and Middle Temple Inns runs its own scholarship scheme, including with separate application systems and requirements.

To secure a place at one of the LawCareersNetLIVE student conferences you must submit a top-class application. These applications are very similar to training contract applications.

Members of the Criminal Bar Association are due to vote on whether to replace the current fortnightly strikes with uninterrupted ones as of 5 September.