Staff at Stephenson Harwood LLP can work from home permanently in return for a 20% pay cut, as part of the firm’s new remote working policy which is set to be enforced this month. 

BPP Law School is increasing its course fees by 5% for September 2012’s intake of wannabe lawyers.

Top law firms have announced their autumn retention rates, following the lead of Shearman & Sterling which revealed in June that it would keep on 11 of its 12 NQs.

The Bar Council has warned that the government's plans to introduce competitive tendering for legal aid contracts and deny defendants the right to choose a lawyer will undermine the UK justice system's good reputation among the international community.

Conservative MP Chris Grayling has replaced Ken Clarke as the country's justice secretary, following a reshuffle by Prime Minister David Cameron on 4 September.

The alternative 'equivalent means' route to qualifying as a solicitor has been successfully completed for the first time by Robert Houchill, who had been working as a senior paralegal in the immigration team at Bates Wells Braithwaite and is now a solicitor in the same team.

The Legal Services Board has published statutory guidance following the Legal Education and Training Review, urging regulators to increase flexibility in education and training.

BPP University College is offering a last chance to undertake a law degree at the current rate of £3,225 per year before increases in course fees are implemented in September.

Legal education provider BARBRI has collaborated with Hall & Stott Publishing on a series of law textbooks for UK law students.

Leading legal lender VFS Legal has gone into administration, leaving law firms at a loss for financing.

A Muslim woman has been told by a judge that she must remove her niqab when she gives evidence, but may wear it throughout the rest of her trial.

Promises to publish a review of the impact of legal aid cuts by Justice Secretary David Lidington have done little to raise the spirits of practitioners following the government’s latest fees decision, which slashed the amount of evidence that lawyers are paid to consider in legal aid cases. 

Prospective barristers studying the Inns of Court College of Advocacy’s (ICCA) new Bar course will receive their Postgraduate Diploma in Bar Practice from King’s College London (KCL), after KCL’s Dickson Poon School of Law agreed to act as the course’s validating body.

A Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) student at the University of Law has won the prestigious Future Legal Mind essay competition for 2017. 

Growth in the legal sector could be halved if Britain leaves the EU without a deal, says the Law Society as it releases economic forecasts in collaboration with Thomas Reuters to predict alternative Brexit scenarios.

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The outstanding achievements of professionals across the legal sector have been celebrated by the Law Society.

Pro bono clinics are under increasing demand for free legal advice, reports the legal charity LawWorks as it calls for people to be given early access to legal help.

Spark 21, the charity behind the First 100 Years project that works to celebrate, inform and inspire future generations of women lawyers, brought together leading women from the world of law and beyond at its annual conference on Wednesday.