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Ethnic minority City lawyers still under-represented at the top

Only a handful of internationalist firms reflect diversity of the general UK population

2 November 2015 10:07

Morning round-up: Monday 2 November

The morning’s top legal affairs news stories

2 November 2015 07:54

A practising barrister who failed to declare his old criminal convictions has been disbarred

Omissions come back to haunt forgery barrister 16 years later

30 October 2015 14:04

Police investigate after sex attack on paralegal’s miniature Shetland pony

Tiny horse was found badly injured, with two separate internal injuries

30 October 2015 11:47

The unintentionally positive effects of the Witchcraft Act are still being felt today

Laws against witchcraft were pivotal in the creation of modern concepts of evidence; they also gave women a voice in court as witnesses

30 October 2015 10:00

Not accepting students with 2:2s is ‘discriminatory’, argues top legal academic

Dr Steven Vaughan says degree class doesn’t tell the whole story

30 October 2015 09:09

City law firm trainee pukes on senior colleagues at awards ceremony

Stephenson Harwood rookie "extremely embarrassed" after vomiting on three associates

30 October 2015 08:33

Morning round-up: Friday 30 October

The morning’s top legal affairs news stories

30 October 2015 08:18

Lawyers: a car park comparison

Image captures difference between haves and have-nots in corporate law

29 October 2015 17:28

Top Blackstone Chambers QC rejects Oxford prof’s claim that technology will destroy legal profession

Lawyers survived email and Twitter -- and they'll survive everything else, predicts David Pannick QC

29 October 2015 13:59