An interview with Rob Wagg, CEO of New Park Court Chambers
Ever wondered what a pupillage is like at the CPS? This Q and A provides an insight into the training, experience and next steps
What meaningful steps can you take in 2026 to advance your legal career? asks Thomas Cowan of St Pauls Chambers
Feeling stuck at a careers crossroads? Lost your legal mojo? The answer often lies in knowing what you truly want – but how to figure that out? Nikki Alderson shares some practical strategies to help you gain clarity and move forward with confidence
Make some time and efficiency gains this year! Bar Standards Board research shows ‘micro-tech’ admin solutions gaining traction amid Bar’s cautious approach to new technology
Barrister Anogika Souresh and practice managers Niamh McCulloch and Rebecca Stevens share insights into the training and client-handling skills required for direct access work
What’s it really like to work in the National Crime Agency’s in-house legal team? TM, a lawyer in the NCA’s Financial Disruptions Litigation team, shares a day in her life
In the first of a new King’s Counsel Selection Panel series, Monisha Shah looks at Competency D: Diversity Action & Understanding – and the many inspiring ways to demonstrate it
If reputation is the traditional currency of counsel, personal branding is crypto, says Anna Yarde
Hybrid – home and CWJ’s Bethnal Green office, London
Centre for Women’s Justice (CWJ) is recruiting paralegals with feminist values to join its new Independent Legal Advice service.
The Chair of the Bar reports back
Susie Griffin on the admin that keeps barristers from billable work
Clement Cowley, Partner at The Penny Group, explains how global events can influence the performance of pensions and ISAs, and why taking a long-term approach to investing is often the most effective strategy
Mário Barroso, Head of R&D and Method Development at AlphaBiolabs, discusses what family law professionals need to know about hallucinogens, from the main hallucinogenic drugs encountered in family proceedings, to their effects and the testing options available
Harmony Christian Ministries is the latest charity to benefit from a £500 donation from AlphaBiolabs via the company’s Giving Back initiative
By David Green
The golden age of advocacy? David Langwallner pays homage to the filmic if contentious barrister Sir Edward Carson and some of his contemporaries
Leah Arthur, a pupil, and her second seat supervisor, John Goss, share their perspectives on building a productive pupil-supervisor relationship
Henry Fingerhut outlines what the Bar Standards Board AI guidance means for early career barristers
The Ministry of Justice will match-fund up to 100 criminal pupillages, with grants available to criminal chambers across England and Wales. Similar to the COIC scheme, the grants will match-fund pupillages additional to those otherwise offered without government funding
Not yet, says Jacob Turner. Regulation, unlike the technology itself, is a domain the legal profession can still control