Recruitment & Job Seekers News

Learning Curve
Legal education needs to be in tune with a rapidly changing profession. Sarah Hutchinson looks at what the future holds for trainees

Government to ban referral fees in personal injury cases
The government has today announced that it will ban the payment of referral fees in personal injury cases.

Solicitors report ‘chaotic scenes’ as rioters processed through court
Defence solicitors and prosecutors have reported scenes of chaos as they worked day and night to represent or prosecute more than 1,000 alleged rioters and looters arrested so far this week.

Law firm mergers trend ‘to accelerate’
A high proportion of small and medium-sized firms have completed mergers in the first half of 2011, new research by the Law Consultancy Network suggests.





