Pressure to bend rules Pressure from clients to act unethically is the single biggest ethical challenge facing barristers, a new survey has found. The Bar Council’s Ethics at the Bar report, published this week, found that more than half of…
Mixed messaging Currently, the legal press and beyond is full of doom-mongering of a staggering scale. The advent of AI means one thing for sure: your shiny legal career is no longer a dead cert. And as law firms and…
Extra £5k Hogan Lovells has increased salaries for its newly qualified (NQ) associates in London ahead of its mega-merger with US law firm Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft. The firm confirmed that pay for its most junior lawyers has risen by…
Up 15% Global law firm Ashurst has posted a bumper set of results in its final full financial year before combining with US outfit Perkins Coie, with profit per equity partner (PEP) leaping 15% to £1.592 million. The firm’s figures…
Robot triumphs at Wandsworth CC An AI-powered law firm has won a court case without a single lawyer handling the pre-trial work, in what is thought to be the first victory of its kind in the UK, and possibly the…
Undisclosed fee Legal education giant BARBRI has bought an AI training platform founded by a former BigLaw lawyer, in a move it says will help build “AI fluency” among law students and trainee lawyers. The SQE prep provider has acquired…
New risk-spotting plans Law firms could soon be forced to tell the SRA before they merge with or acquire rival outfits, under fresh proposals from the regulator aimed at identifying potential risk before it blows up into the next big…
The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the weekend ‘It’s my practice’: Why top lawyers are commanding $20m in London [Financial News] Lawyer in Israel war crimes case suspended over sexual misconduct claim [The Telegraph] (£) Ex-lawyer…
‘Inappropriate’ WhatsApps too A male barrister who worked in the legal department of a police force has been disbarred over his conduct towards junior female colleagues. The Bar Standards Board (BSB) said Michael Griffiths, who was head of the Legal…
Targeting City law firms Durham Law School In our latest career conundrum, an aspiring solicitor who hopes to work at a City law firm asks whether a masters degree will help recruiters look past their 2:2. “Hello Legal Cheek. Please…