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The number of students on Bar vocational courses has continued to grow since the pandemic, new figures have shown. Those with a first-class degree performed far better than others.

Beyond Law Group – which currently owns three practices – has accepted private equity investment as it plans to expand significantly through organic and acquisitive growth.

The largest chambers in Wales has become the first legal services provider to obtain the new law-specific data protection certification approved by the Information Commissioner’s Office.

The legal profession’s reaction to the King’s Speech yesterday focused as much on what is not in the government’s legislative priorities as what is.

CILEX is set to make a final decision on whether to seek to transfer regulator to the Solicitors Regulation Authority in October, and has named a new chair and president.

Trust in in the legal profession is relatively high – but not when it comes to believing law firms will deal with complaints properly, major research has found.

Four special rapporteurs appointed by the UN’s Human Rights Council have told the UK government about their concerns over the “ongoing harassment” of barrister Charlotte Proudman.

A senior associate who completed a transaction without an executed mortgage deed, exposing both the lender and lay clients to “unknown and unacceptable risks”, has been struck off.

There is “a significant generational shift in priorities” between those seeking their first job as a lawyer and those already working for law firms, a report has found.

A partner at a leading personal injury firm who “deliberately misled” an accident victim for five years over a claim she never issued has been struck off.