Labour won. Now what? As Keir Starmer walks into Downing Street, The Lawyer Podcast boils up a vat of coffee and brings you an election results show for lawyers. With special guests including former Clifford Chance partner and tax celebrity Dan Neidle, we discuss which lawyers are in and out of Parliament after a night […]
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Tomorrow, the country speaks. Let the chips fall where they may. Whatever your party affiliation, you have lawyers to vote for in this election – in fact, we’ve found no fewer than 193 of them standing. In a quartet of seats (Birmingham Ladywood, Finchley & Golders Green, Newark and Tottenham) voters even have a choice […]
Reflecting on the time since the last general election it’s hard to imagine, at least in recent times, a more chaotic period in British politics. There are many government and parliamentary functions that are not serving us; we would not run a successful business this way, so why do we allow our country to be […]
Senior associate Jo Howard is standing for the Labour Party in Christchurch.
We’ve looked at the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats, but there are lawyers fighting to be elected for other parties too, including the Communist Party of Britain, several law students and a member of the ‘Turnip Taliban’…
Browne Jacobson finance head Paul Ray is contesting Lichfield for the Liberal Democrats against Michael Fabricant. We asked him for his views on law and politics
A King’s Counsel standing for the Reform UK party in Salisbury has come under fire after describing his encounter with Russian President Vladimir Putin at an election hustings. Asked if a Reform government would continue to support Ukraine in its war with Russia, Julian Malins KC said: “I have actually met Putin and had a 10-minute […]
If Labour wins the general election, Britain faces the biggest shake-up in its employment laws in the last 50 years. The proposals are likely to cause a mindset change in the way employers recruit, treat and dismiss their staff. Employing and dismissing staff will become more complicated and expensive and some employers will be compelled […]
Barrister, Hot 100 2024 member and author Christian Weaver sets out his manifesto for change as the election grows nearer.
A Birketts partner, Mayer Brown’s pro bono head, associates from Clifford Chance and White & Case, a Twenty Essex barrister and a part-time law student are among the Conservative candidates hoping to be elected to the Commons for the first time.
Lawyers also fear a Conservative victory’s effect on business more than they do a hung parliament’s.