News

June 2011

  Dreadful Press Release of the wee
The latest figures show that the number of female lawyers in Australia will soon exceed the number of men.
The deceased Lincoln's Inn firm Dawsons is going into insolvent liquidation, with debts of well over a million pounds.
Former equity partners at long-dead Halliwells were left sweating last week as the firm's administrators began trying to claw back some of the £200 mi
The latest firms to fall victim to merger fever are Beachcroft and Da
Leeds giant Walker Morris has informed its staff that it will be dramatically reducing its maternity offering in order to bring it "in line with t
A City law firm has announced a "great temporary opportunity'" for fresh-faced law graduates to, errr,
BPP University College has abandoned plans to open up shop in Newcastle as students stayed away.
A new survey has revealed that not only are law grads in Australia earning significantly less than their counterparts in other professions, but they'r
A retired Supreme Court judge pleaded guilty to drink driving after being involved in a three car pile-up in Sydney, but decided not to interrupt his
Devonshires, one of the most profitable firms in the City, has reneged on the bonuses it said it would pay to its associates.
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A self-confessed "God botherer" dentist from Highton has been pulled in front of a tribunal for trying to convert patients to Christianity.
There was more evidence of the woes in the legal graduate recruitment market this week, with news that a London law firm is offering a job to law scho
A juror who caused the collapse of a major drugs trial after contacting a defendant through Facebook has been jailed for eight months.
By day, Alex Dilmaghani is a diligent law student at Southampton University. But by night he's a boxer with an unbeaten professional fighting record.
A young US lawyer has been charged with three counts of prostitution.
An ex-Clayton Utz lawyer is suing her former firm for sexual harassment and victimisation, claiming that it was a hostile place to work.
A Melbourne gay bar has won the right to ban women following concerns that its customers would be hassled by "predatory" females trying to turn them s