A rogue lawyer banned from every Scottish court has been reported to police regarding claims he conned a client out of £80,000 of his life savings. According to The Daily Record, Adam McNeil accused bankrupt solicitor Paul Garrett of tricking him in to...

Young lawyers are pushing back against a culture of overwork in Australia’s top commercial firms. According to The Guardian, two top-tier firms, Gilbert + Tobin and King & Wood Mallesons have been investigated by safe work authorities in New South...

The Supreme Court judge, famous for having “a brain the size of a planet” has told the bar that it needs to change the way it looks at legal in desperate times of squeezed public sector expenditure. Speaking at the Bar Conference on Saturday, Lord Sumption...

The Law Society has warned that a “chronic” lack of new duty solicitors could lead to innocent people being found guilty. A 20-year pay freeze has rendered the job unattractive and could see more people representing themselves in court, it added. According...

Students will "likely" pay between £3,000 - £4,500 to sit the new solicitor super-exam, according to The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). As part of the update last week, a revised launch date was confirmed for September 2021 - a year later than was ...

71% of the junior end of the legal professions still want to remain a part of the EU, Legal Cheek reported after running an exclusive Brexit survey of over 839 law students and lawyers.   The next most popular version among respondents was a Canada-style...

A new two-part version of the Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) could be ready as early as next year after the regulator approved a revised set of training rules. This comes after discussions to make the route to qualification as a barrister more...

Your job should fit within your lifestyle such that you get to choose when and where to work while at the same time earning some income. For a long time, a career in law was believed to involve long working hours, a lot of travelling to meet clients, and...

Civil servants are working overtime to avoid a legal cliff edge after Brexit.   Currently, there are around 12,000 EU regulations in operation in the UK.   According to the BBC, the government plans to copy over the vast majority of them word-for-word into...