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Ex-City lawyer on £100k reveals she’s taken 80% pay cut to specialise in human rights

She currently earns just over £18k but hopes to revert to six-figure salary in new field

Jun 8 2021 9:13am
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Careers

City lawyers share careers and commercial awareness advice

Lawyers from the London offices of Baker McKenzie, BCLP and Norton Rose Fulbright join a magic circle lawyer turned legal education specialist to discuss the key themes so far this year

Mar 31 2021 2:44pm
Careers

‘Working at a music festival, in the army and as a teacher made me a better lawyer’

Baker McKenzie’s Jonathan Tham highlights the importance of non-legal work experience

Jul 15 2020 2:29pm
Careers

5 predictions for the post-COVID corporate law world

ULaw’s director of employability outlines what would-be City lawyers can expect

Jul 13 2020 3:35pm
Trainees flock home to mum and dad amid coronavirus pandemic

Be a magic circle hotshot from your childhood bedroom

Apr 6 2020 9:22am
Careers

How to deal with training contract rejection

ULaw tutor and former solicitor Harriet Pearce discusses self-care and why aspiring lawyers should be upfront about their mental health

Mar 4 2020 3:17pm

Careers

From Leeds University law grad to Linklaters fintech partner

Mark Drury survived the financial crisis and then surfed the tech wave

Nov 29 2019 10:37am
Careers

How I became a commercial litigator in the City

Michael O’Donoghue, a senior associate at Hogan Lovells, discusses his day job and the firm’s tech strategy

Nov 25 2019 2:31pm
Exclusive research: average time trainees and junior lawyers spend at work falls to lowest in four years

As pay keeps rising

Nov 21 2019 10:17am
Two months into her training contract and Eve Cornwell reveals what magic circle trainee life is like

Busy rush hour commutes, free breakfast, two mobile phones and getting to grips with time recording

Nov 19 2019 10:51am
Brit lawyers could boost salary by over a third working in US

From £66,329 to £93,284

Oct 16 2019 11:55am
Careers

My journey from trainee to partner

Baker McKenzie’s Jeremy Levy looks back at his path to partnership

Jul 4 2019 2:14pm

Careers

Event: How to become a City lawyer — with Baker McKenzie, Hogan Lovells, Mayer Brown, PRIME and BPP Law School

This Wednesday evening in London

Jun 28 2019 3:22pm
How to survive the supervisor from hell

A junior solicitor reflects on the sadism lurking within City law firms

Jul 13 2017 9:26am
Chelsea FC-mad corporate lawyer tells Liverpool fans to ‘crawl back to your horrible Merseyside home’

Partner at London office of US firm latest to be caught out by YouTube and Twitter

Nov 3 2015 3:13pm
Exposed: mysterious lawyer charting conquests in sex autobiography is ex-Herbert Smith and Clyde & Co

Exclusive: Twitter slip-up sees solicitor’s identity uncovered by Legal Cheek following anonymous Mail Online article

May 18 2015 12:20pm
Now it’s time for top City partners to go into the age-guessing mincer

Have a guess, how old do you reckon the guvnor is …?

May 7 2015 3:42pm