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All WW1 articles
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OpinionWhen the Gothas hit Chancery lane
100 years ago this week, legal London was on the front line of a world war.
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OpinionPasschendaele's toll on the profession
Firm marks centenary of death of founder’s son - one of many.
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NewsTwo-minute silence
A trumpeter sounds the last post at the Inns of Court war memorial at 11am today.
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OpinionA solicitor who broke the mould (and a lock)
Preparations are under way to celebrate the centenary of a solicitor becoming prime minister. But David Lloyd George remains one of a kind.
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OpinionSomme anniversary: a day for us to remember
At least 23 solicitors and articled clerks were killed on the first day of the Somme.
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OpinionChanged utterly: Easter 1916 and the law
The mainland UK legal community responded slowly, but in the end honourably, to events in Dublin 100 years ago.
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OpinionGruesome centenaries of 2016
Why lawyers should remember the Somme, the Easter Rising and the Casement trial 100 years on.
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OpinionNovember 1915: a roll to remember
Thirteen names give a snapshot of the Great War’s toll on solicitors and articled clerks.
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OpinionThe solicitor who became Undershaft
The arms magnate who pioneered modern artillery - as well as hydraulics and renewable energy - started out as a solicitor.
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ProfileExceptional brutality and stupidity
Lawyers did not emerge well from the 1915 trial of nurse Edith Cavell.
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OpinionMagnificent lawyers in flying machines
Nervous of flying? Spare a thought for the colleagues who faced flaming death pioneering it.
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Opinion1916: martyrs, justice and memory
Commemorating the events of 1916 may be traumatic for some.
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ProfileWar stories: 'a most interesting time' - at Gallipoli
Solicitor RCW 'Clive' Burn, admitted in 1912, left a graphic account of the discomforts and dangers.
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NewsScots remember solicitors who served
The Law Society of Scotland has unveiled the first national memorial to the Scottish lawyers who died in the First World War.
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OpinionWhen a fund united the profession
A 1919 list of contributors show solicitors putting their hands into their pockets to commemorate the fallen.
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Opinion70 years without the ‘Wizard’
In 1945 the passing of David Lloyd George, the only solicitor to become prime minister, was marked with purple prose.
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Opinion‘He was articled to his father’
A century on, the Gazette's monthly Roll of Honour tells a poignant tale.
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OpinionAtrocities are rarely orphans
2015 will be a year of grim centenaries. They should be handled with care.
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OpinionA century of death from the air
Christmas 1914 set precedents for a sustained breach of international law.