Funding, timing and qualification For aspiring solicitors without a training contract lined up, deciding whether to start the SQE can mean weighing up the cost, the time commitment and what comes next. While many students wait until they have secured…
12 month suspension A trainee solicitor who took a second job at the Home Office and used his access to check visa files linked to clients, relatives and people he knew has been suspended from practice for 12 months. Md…
Taking content from X without attribution carries risk as well as reward When it comes to media law, few names are more recognisable than veteran solicitor Mark Stephens CBE. With a client list that over his long career has included…
BigLaw pranksters A lawyer at US firm Jenner & Block has taken workplace fundraising to rather colourful new heights, filling a colleague’s office with 25,000 plastic balls after lawyers smashed a charity donation target. The elaborate prank was the brainchild…
Time to move on? In the latest submission to our Career Conundrums series, a paralegal wonders whether it’s worth sticking around at the firm that’s just turned them down for a training contract. “Hi LC. I’m currently a paralegal in…
Cheaper and quicker Sir Geoffrey Vos The public is likely to become comfortable with machines deciding some disputes as the technology becomes more reliable, the Master of the Rolls has predicted. Sir Geoffrey Vos said that litigants may eventually choose…
The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the weekend Spectacular defeat leaves Prince Harry’s golden lawyer tarnished [The Times] (£) Woke barrister’s ‘hypocrisy’ as he takes left-wing campaign group Good Law Project offshore [Mail Online] The new…
Split sale Listed law firm Knights has agreed to acquire the bulk of Moore Barlow in a £27 million deal, with Fletchers Group taking on the firm’s claimant-focused teams. Knights, a top-50 UK outfit with 29 offices across the country,…
Chasing a career at the bar? Future pupil barrister and Legal Cheek writer Saul Agar-Ward explains what worked for him, and what didn’t Last year 3,912 candidates applied for pupillage through the Gateway. Only 287 got it. Entry to the…
Lied to firm A solicitor who earned substantial sums answering legal questions online while working for a law firm has been struck off after lying to his employer about the side hustle. Matthew Moss worked as an employment solicitor at…