William Holmes
William Holmes is a future magic circle trainee and recent Bristol University modern languages graduate with an interest in all things legal.
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What makes a great deal lawyer?
Communication, organisation and understanding your clients’ businesses are the keys to success, says Sidley Austin managing associate Cyril Cutinha
Shearman and Hogan Lovells respond to merger rumour
Will the City gain a new US super-firm?
Pupil barrister passed off other tenants’ work as his own, tribunal finds
Decision open to appeal
Keele Uni launches ‘UKs first’ climate crisis LLB
New offering explores companies and governments obligations as well as the legal mechanisms holding them to account
Law student unwittingly asks Supreme Court justice for directions
Aspiring lawyer ‘awestruck by Lord Briggs kindness’
TC applications, exams and volume of work among top sources of stress for law students
Exclusive research: Profession’s wellbeing efforts branded ‘performative’ in Legal Cheek mental health survey
Multi-million pound funding boost for former Magic Circle lawyer’s deal visualising tool
Tim Follett hopes software will make lawyers look back in ‘disbelief’ at using PowerPoint
Law firms dominate latest social mobility rankings
Nearly forty outfits feature on ’22 list, with Browne Jacobson coming top
We quizzed the AI robot everyone is talking about
Hearsay, TC applications, Donoghue v Stevenson and more
Training contract holder wins dispute with firm over employment terms change
Strong start to legal career
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Life inside the world’s largest law firm
Dentons lawyers share their experience of working at a firm that operates in 70 different countries
Guest v Guest: The recent Supreme Court ruling law students need to know
New leading case on proprietary estoppel
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Why IP is set to become a hot practice area
Pinsent Masons partner Mark Marfé sits down with Legal Cheek Careers to discuss some of the top trends and challenges impacting his day-to-day work
You don’t have to be ‘fun’ at work, says French court
Worker wins dismissal claim after refusing to join in ‘humiliating and intrusive’ social events
Trainee City solicitor reveals crazy financial set-up, including £70k private pension, £20k crypto investment and access to parents’ credit card
‘I am undoubtedly extremely privileged’
Baroness Hale badged ‘affable member’ of Inn ‘staff’ by newspaper
Picture caption gaff
King Charles visits legal London
His Majesty given a Gray’s Inn tie and joked it was ‘the Inn thing’
Tributes pour in after TikTok star solicitor Richard Grogan dies
‘We will miss his energy, humour, and deep commitment to the profession,’ the Law Society of Ireland says