Lawyers

Tried to make himself ‘feel better’ Durham University Law School (Credit: Durham University) A 30-year-old man has been slapped with a community order after he attempted to blag a free law degree from Durham University by pretending to be a ...

Follows similar moves by the likes of Addleshaw Goddard, Simmons & Simmons and Slaughter and May Ashurst has become the latest big City player to dip its toe into the potentially lucrative world of financial technology through the launch of ...

Trainees receive fresh rises too Big Four player PwC has upped the salaries of its trainees and newly qualified (NQ) solicitors, Legal Cheek can reveal. The accountancy giant, which takes on around 30 trainees each year, has bumped junior lawyer ...

Uplifts for GDL and LPC maintenance grants, too The London office of US outfit Davis Polk & Wardwell has upped its newly qualified (NQ) solicitor salary. The pay bump sees Davis Polk’s junior lawyer cohort now start on £135,000, up ...

Spotted by a member of the public A barrister has become one of the first people in Britain to be prosecuted for ‘upskirting’ under new voyeurism laws. Daren Timson-Hunt, 55, is said to have hidden his mobile phone under his ...

City player will now recruit 50 trainees annually Addleshaw Goddard has become the latest big legal player to up the salaries of its newly qualified (NQ) lawyers and trainees. The firm confirmed NQ base rates for those in London now ...

Married mother Katherine Sears claims to have once made £44,500 in just three weeks Katherine Sears A criminal lawyer in the US has revealed how she is supplementing her income by working as a part-time prostitute. Yes, you read that ...

City lawyer turned tech guru Adam Curphey will join firm’s London office next month Adam Curphey speaking at Legal Cheek’s Future of Legal Education and Training Conference earlier this year BPP University Law School’s head of development and innovation technology, ...

Launches next month The Legal Advice Centre will be based at the university’s Institute of Management (pictured) — Credit: University of Bolton The University of Bolton is to launch a new student-staffed pro bono clinic to help tackle the “huge ...

But the case isn’t over, insists Marcus Ball Crowdfunding campaigner Marcus Ball has lost a bid to take his private prosecution of Boris Johnson to the Supreme Court. Twenty-nine-year-old Ball had applied for permission to appeal directly to the country’s ...