Around 2% of the firm’s workforce DWF has placed more than 100 staff at risk of redundancy as the firm moves to streamline its operations amid ongoing cost-cutting pressures. The layoffs will affect fee earners and business services employees at…
The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the weekend Ex-PM Gordon Brown makes criminal complaint against Rupert Murdoch’s media empire [The Guardian] Lawyer in Trump’s inner circle now a target [The Financial Times] (£) Gordon Brown: ‘I…
Company informs Legal Cheek that no questions generated by AI are used in SQE assessments Kaplan’s use of AI for SQE “question development” has come under scrutiny amid a row in the US about California Bar exam questions being artificially…
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Projects include a Windrush app, sexual violence legal advice and a law-themed classroom outreach Law students and law schools across the UK have been recognised for their outstanding contributions to access to justice at this year’s LawWorks and Attorney General’s…
Disqualified by SRA A legal executive has been barred from working in the legal profession after misappropriating over £200,000 from a deceased client’s estate and transferring the funds into a company he owned. Christopher Takamitsu Foster, formerly employed as a…
You’ll need ‘sound judgment and decisiveness’ Fancy becoming a Supreme Court Justice? Well, now’s your chance! The current sitting deputy president of the UK Supreme Court, Lord Hodge, will retire on 31 December 2025. Hodge will be 72 in May,…
Making legislative system ‘faster and more precise’ Credit: Shiekh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum via X The United Arab Emirates is poised to become the first country in the world to use artificial intelligence to assist in lawmaking. Announced last…
Spotlights fossil fuel work Eco-minded law students have released updated scores reflecting their views on how environmentally friendly major law firms are, based on their work with fossil fuel clients. Compiled by the US-based group Law Students for Climate Accountability…
Bar hopeful in bind over career decision In our latest Career Conundrum, a prospective barrister has secured pupillage — but they’re doubting whether it’s the right chambers for them. Do they take it anyway, or reapply? “Hi Legal Cheek, it’s…