The silk class of 2025: ten names to note
The King’s Counsel system remains the most prized designation for elite advocates in the world. One hundred and five lawyers…
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Sponsored briefing: The journey travelled in building a modern barristers’ chambers
Amanda Illing discusses the process of building a modern barristers’ chambers
Legal Business Awards 2020 – Chambers of the Year
The entries were reviewed and our panel of general counsel judges delivered their verdicts: we are now delighted to reveal…
Disputes perspectives: Jolyon Maugham QC
One of the things about being a barrister is that you’re independently-minded, which means all the big Remain campaigns find…
The Bar Elite: Silk and steel
Despite Brexit, costs pressures and the loss of financial crisis work, reports of the commercial Bar’s decline are overblown. We…
Our leadership: Evolving London’s courts for a global market
Despite post-Brexit challenges to the UK’s legal market and persistent concerns over court funding, confidence remains high among commercial practitioners…
Matrix Chambers CEO Lindsay Scott to head up 39 Essex Chambers later this year
Long-serving Matrix Chambers CEO Lindsay Scott (pictured) is to join 39 Essex Chambers as its new chief executive officer, later…
Q&A: Latham’s Sophie Lamb on life in chambers, practice and the danger of post-Brexit immigration policy
Latham & Watkins’ global co-head of international arbitration Sophie Lamb (pictured) discusses Lord Goldsmith, Latham and the impact of Brexit…
Life during law: Lord Dyson, 39 Essex Chambers
I’ve enjoyed every minute as a barrister and a judge. Two careers. I’ve been privileged. I didn’t want to be…
Legal education: Bar Standards Board follows SRA with super-exam proposal
Aspiring barristers may have to take a new exam before qualifying into the profession as proposed by the Bar Standards…
Q&A: Jolyon Maugham QC on the first victory for Brexit’s legal challenge
Devereaux Chambers Jolyon Maugham QC – who organised a crowdfunded movement to challenge the government’s triggering of article 50 without…
Hillsborough inquest: Birnberg Peirce and other firms take home £63m as government foots legal bill
The Home Office has spent £63.6m on the legal costs for the families of the 96 victims of the 1989…
Perspectives: Toby Landau QC
I have been incredibly fortunate in my career. I feel that very strongly. I come from a long line of…
Top silk Howard QC to co-lead Brick Court as Hirst QC steps down
Brick Court Chambers‘ Mark Howard QC has been appointed to co-head the set with Helen Davies QC, as incumbent Jonathan…
Freshfields and Eversheds make up bulk of applications as Irish admissions reach over 300
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Eversheds have made up the bulk of UK admissions to the Irish bar so far in…
Brick Court hires Wilberforce Chambers rising star Newton
Leading commercial set Brick Court Chambers has made a key hire with Wilberforce Chambers’ rising star Laura Newton.
Comment: Not ‘looming’, the judiciary is already in crisis
If there was much to celebrate amid the continued rise of London as an international disputes centre at Legal Business’…
‘A fundamental change’: Bar Council sets out legal impact of Brexit in neutral report
The Bar Council has published an analysis of the impacts of Brexit in an attempt to provide a neutral analysis…
Revolving doors: HSF, Pinsents and Bird & Bird make key international laterals while High Court judge returns to Bar
Last week saw a host of international law firm lateral hires, while judge Sir Jeremy Cooke has left the UK’s…
Fountain Court boosts finance bench with arrival of Outer Temple silk Lissack
Fountain Court Chambers has bolstered its bench of finance silks after attracting banking heavyweight Richard Lissack QC (pictured) from Outer…