Are LLBs overrated nowadays? With the SQE ushering in alternate pathways to qualification, and the non-law graduate to solicitor pipeline becoming increasingly common, there is no longer a single standard route into the legal profession. On this week’s Legal Cheek…
Projects include asylum support, welfare benefits appeals, and over 30,000 hours of student-led legal work Law students and law schools across the UK have been recognised for their efforts in promoting access to justice at this year’s LawWorks and Attorney…
The top legal affairs news stories from the long weekend ‘Names can be a barrier’: Black lawyers tackle inclusion [BBC News] The law firm that shaped Wall Street and the world [Financial Times] (£) Why Cleary Gottlieb is pushing back…
Another major law firm strikes tech deal Slaughter and May has become the latest Magic Circle firm to roll out an AI platform across its entire practice, announcing a firmwide deal with Harvey. The firm will deploy Harvey’s platform across…
Just two weeks away From top left to bottom right: Georgina Bennett-Warner, Head of Marketing at Wedlake Bell; Thom Brooks, Principal, Collingwood College and Chair in Law, Ethics and Government at Durham University’s Law School; Morag Duffin, Director of Student…
Forced hearing to be adjourned A barrister has been fined £1,000 after attending court while intoxicated and subsequently collapsing during proceedings. On 13 March 2025, James Fredrick Hankinson was scheduled to represent his client at Maidstone Combined Court but turned…
Record high More than six in ten pupil barristers are women, according to new figures from the Bar Standards Board (BSB), marking the highest proportion recorded since the regulator began collecting diversity data a decade ago. The BSB’s annual Diversity…
Sweet strategy A pair of graduates have taken a creative and unconventional approach to breaking into the legal profession, hand-delivering boxes of Krispy Kreme doughnuts to City law firms in a bid to land training contracts. In a TikTok video…
2hrs 27mins as Captain Underpants A trainee solicitor at US law firm Milbank has successfully broken a Guinness World Record at the London Marathon, completing the race dressed as Captain Underpants in just 2 hours and 27 minutes. Legal Cheek…
Lawyers express concerns International law firms operating in the United Arab Emirates are calling lawyers back to the office, with some staff expressing unease about the timing of the move. Jones Day is understood to have asked its Dubai lawyers…