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Linklaters in-house tech start-up takes on firm trainees
Six-month seat option forms part of magic circle outfit’s training contract programme
Freshfields latest to let lawyers work from home up to half the time
Interim measure includes trainees
Trainees slam remote-working
"All the old farts who bang on about WFH being 'the future' need to read this"
3 lawyers doing elite London work from rural Scotland, the South of France and Zimbabwe to join global firm chief at virtual summit
Featuring remote-working pioneers at Re:link Linklaters, Travers Smith, Hogan Lovells and more
BPP University to be sold ‘within weeks’, report claims
Private equity giant TDR Capital looks set to snap up law school
Freshfields keeps 32 of 34 spring NQ solicitors
Macfarlanes also confirms 100% score
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Clifford Chance latest law firm to dish out COVID bonuses to all lawyers and staff
Follows similar moves made by HSF, Simmons and Bevan Brittan
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Linklaters adopts code to protect employees with afro hair
‘Hair discrimination remains a source of racial injustice for black people in the UK’, says magic circle firm
Junior lawyer mental health hit hardest by lockdown, research reveals
When compared with WFH experience of senior solicitors
White & Case keeps 14 of 17 NQ solicitors
Two rookies qualify into the firm's offices in Dubai and Geneva
Linklaters sets sights on becoming first magic circle law firm in Dublin
Discussions at very early stage
Ex-magic circle lawyer who brought £1 million claim against Oxford Uni over ‘inadequate’ teaching now sues wealthy parents for life-long maintenance grant
Faiz Siddiqui, 41, claims he's dependent on parents due to health issues
HSF appoints first female senior partner
M&A specialist Rebecca Maslen-Stannage takes up new role from 1 May
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Hogan Lovells opens Dublin office
Doesn't rule out training contract and secondment opportunities in Ireland
Retirement age for judges upped to 75
Five years longer