The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the weekend The young lawyers shunning £180,000 salaries for an easier life [The Telegraph] (£) Surge in solicitor complaints makes regulator double response times [The Times] (£) Social media platforms…
Human rights specialist awaits sentencing A law PhD student at the University of Oxford has been found guilty of offences related to modern slavery. Lydia Mugambe, 49, joined Pembroke College, Oxford, in 2020 for a DPhil. In 2021, she was…
Law Society research Law firms’ earnings are on the rise but they’re waiting longer to get paid, new research produced by the Law Society has found. The Law Society’s 2025 Financial Benchmarking Survey reports a 6.1% increase in firm earnings…
SQE student seeks advice In our latest Career Conundrum, an SQE student wants to know if anyone else is in the same pickle, and for your advice on what their next steps should be. “I sat SQE1 in January and, unfortunately,…
A round-up of online musings, memes and more Opening statements don’t get the same attention as closing arguments. Too bad. A good opening is a map for the jury… [Miller Leonard on LinkedIn] Well this didn’t age well… [Emma Geale…
Addresses House of Commons Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds has corrected the parliamentary record after scrutiny over a speech in which he described himself as having worked as a solicitor. In a point of order raised in…
‘POV: you just opened your SQE1 results and…’ Earlier this week, aspiring solicitors across the country received their results for the first stage of the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE). But this year, checking results wasn’t the only thing on their…
The idea that 25 year-old rookie solicitors earning nearly £200,000 are ripe for replacement by tech is appealing, but likely to be wrong In 2017 I remember a partner at a large City of London law firm telling me confidently…
Also posed as a former footballer and ex-Marine A disbarred US lawyer who falsely claimed to have worked at top law firm Kirkland & Ellis has been sentenced to more than three years in prison after using a string of…
£360k accumulated so far The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has established a new six-figure fund to support disadvantaged aspiring lawyers through the SQE, using financial penalties it has imposed on the organisation responsible for running the assessments. The regulator says…