Left in bag after recent camping trip A magistrate has been issued with formal advice after inadvertently bringing a knife into a court building as he arrived for training. Agboola Obanubi, a magistrate on the South Essex Bench, was passing…
82% Clifford Chance has recorded an 82% autumn trainee retention score, keeping on 37 of its 45 qualifying trainees. All 45 trainees in the cohort applied for newly qualified roles at the Magic Circle firm, with 37 receiving offers and…
Struck off A registered foreign lawyer who used AI-generated false and misleading case citations while defending himself against disciplinary charges has been struck off. Abhishek Kumar turned to generative AI to help draft his response to proceedings brought by the…
Broadsheet bashing Liberty Miles A former Magic Circle lawyer who has built a sizeable social media following through workday vlogs has hit out at a Financial Times article scrutinising the “office influencer” trend, describing the piece as “dripping in misogyny”….
Exclusive: Accelerated vac scheme Clifford Chance has launched a new “challenge” that will see students who impress fast-tracked to a training contract assessment day. The Magic Circle firm today unveiled a new programme, dubbed ‘The Challenge‘, which it describes as…
86% and 83% Mishcon de Reya and Macfarlanes have posted autumn trainee retention scores of 86% and 83%, respectively. First up, Mishcon de Reya, which is keeping on 19 of its 22 trainees. Seventeen of the group will qualify as…
The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the weekend My AI firm will liberate lawyers, not take their jobs [The Times] (£) Solicitors Regulation Authority criticised over PM Law collapse [BBC News] England’s housing courts at breaking…
Starting the conversion course this September? The Legal Cheek Podcast team have you covered For non-law graduates embarking on their legal studies for the first time, the PGDL conversion course can be a somewhat daunting prospect with many wondering what…
Follows series of high-profile blunders AI hallucinations are now the biggest concern for lawyers using the technology, despite adoption across the profession surging to near-universal levels. A new LexisNexis report, Scaling up: The AI-dependent lawyer, found that 83% of UK…
Swish Photo courtesy of Søren Kristensen, SOLK Photography Ltd Watson Farley & Williams (WFW) has given us a sneak peek inside its new City offices, with the global firm’s headquarters featuring “rooftop club space” and a host of green technologies….