Author: thomas-connelly

Fancy a three-course lunch with City firm partners? Fundraising challenge has some awesome prizes

Rallying call to wannabe lawyers as National Pro Bono Week draws to a close

Nov 10 2016 12:14pm

Berwin Leighton Paisner lifts post-Brexit referendum pay freeze

But it won’t backdate lawyer pay packets

Nov 9 2016 2:52pm

Supreme Court success for families involved in bedroom tax battle

Seven-judge bench upholds the claims of Jacqueline Carmichael and Paul and Susan Rutherford

Nov 9 2016 11:37am

High Court judges take legal action against Liz Truss over pension discrimination

Lord Chancellor’s week goes from bad to worse

Nov 9 2016 10:22am

Pinsent Masons creates Brexit-focused artificial intelligent software to help identify ‘risks’ to clients

Futuristic software has already been put to work on "a number of multi-billion dollar transactions"

Nov 9 2016 9:04am

DWF hangs on to just 62% of its newly qualifying lawyers

“This is certainly a lower number of trainees than we’d hoped to retain”, says firm

Nov 8 2016 11:56am

Government confirms it WILL appeal to Supreme Court over Brexit ruling

Case to be heard in "early December"

Nov 7 2016 4:15pm

City law firms bid to get in early with fintechs by offering them free legal advice

Could these start-ups be the banks of the future?

Nov 7 2016 3:05pm

BPTC and pupillage could be rolled into one under new proposals

New route to qualification "needs to be more flexible and affordable", BSB tells Legal Cheek

Nov 7 2016 12:40pm

Top Freshfields lawyer clocks up the miles using special treadmill desk

"I get good reports from my cardiologist"

Nov 7 2016 10:35am

K&L Gates bumps London-based junior lawyer salaries to £71,000

Trainees at the US headquartered outfit also handed fresh pay rises

Nov 3 2016 11:45am

The law firms with the best social life

It's not all work and no play

Nov 3 2016 9:09am

BPP launches advocacy competition to give wannabe BPTC students a taste of life at the bar

Those who impress could receive a barrister training scholarship

Nov 2 2016 9:49am

Baker & McKenzie becomes latest City outfit to embrace flexi-working movement

But does the latest law firm trend really help stressed out lawyers?

Nov 1 2016 1:27pm

King & Wood Mallesons departures continue as rumours regarding firm’s financial status persist

A look at the turbulence shaking the international giant

Nov 1 2016 11:43am

Top law firm partner who handed associate lover £550,000 chunk of client’s estate struck off

Ex-Penningtons Manches lawyer accepted his independence had become compromised

Nov 1 2016 11:06am