What is the GAAR and how will it affect what private client lawyers do in practice?

Alice Kuzmenko is a barrister at 1 Crown Office Row. In this Meet the Lawyer she discusses what attracted her to the barrister route, her day-to-day responsibilites and what she enjoys most about her career in law.

There are many different ways to volunteer with Advocate.

On 8 June 170 guests from 72 law firms attended the eighth annual LawCareers.Net Training & Recruitment Awards (the TARAs).

The Co-operative Legal Services has confirmed an operating loss of £5.1 million for the first half of the year, as reported by Legal Futures.

It’s Pride Month, so this week’s round-up first focuses on the home office’s monumental decision to expand its scheme to wipe historical convictions for members of the LGBTQ+ community. Although this action doesn’t undo the wrongs of the past, it’s a step forward. 

Does a duty of good faith restrict a party’s contractual discretion?

Writing this from the departure gate of Johannesburg airport after a week of discussions on international humanitarian law, a day in the life as the legal counsellor to the UK Mission in Geneva is rarely the same. A statement laced with bias: my role is extraordinary.

You should apply from September onwards in your final year at university. 

Freshfields and Slaughter and May have published their pay gap reports for the year, joining fellow magic circle firm Clifford Chance, which released its pay gap information last week.

Premier international law firm Milbank LLP has launched a new training pathway – leveraged finance track – for candidates with “a clear and committed interest in leveraged finance”. 

Magic circle firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has announced a new programme within its diversity networks, supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees.

Isabel Elsey explains why completing a vacation scheme at Milbank is integral to securing a training contract with the firm. She also sets out the skills she wants to see from aspiring solicitors in their applications and highlights the best way to research the firm. 

It has come to our attention that there is an error in The Training Contract & Pupillage Handbook 2013 in the entry for Francis Taylor Building.

How does the HSE decide what to focus on? (Using the example of the HSE’s focus on work-related ill health, specifically mental health and stress)

We are pleased to bring you the names of the outstanding individual law lecturers who have been nominated by their students for the prestigious LCN Best Law Lecturer award. The winner will be announced at the 14th annual LCN Training & Recruitment Awards, held at Merchant Taylor’s Hall in London on Thursday 18 May.

What are the practical elements of selling a business?