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The balance of power has shifted, says top academic

No, it’s all myth, say recruitment experts — the Yanks are now training enough junior solicitors of their own

‘Agile working’ is the latest corporate law trend

Meet London’s hottest corporate lawyers

The euphemisms that keep the deals moving

Congratulations. You got the training contract. You are now going to be a trainee solicitor…

In the latest instalment in the ‘If I knew then what I know now’  series, Norton…

Pursuing your dreams can come at a price. Deidre Dare (real name: Deidre Clark) used…

Ed note: This is the latest post in the ‘If I knew then what I…

The email reproduced below, by a female associate departing from Clifford Chance’s Washington DC office,…

There’s a list of the events taking place this week at ProBonoUK.

Earlier this week, a City lawyer told me that his firm had experienced a “surge”…

Mark Herrmann, a senior in-house lawyer at multinational company Aon, has recently moved to London…

At last night’s Life With Law talk on ‘finding your path and making things happen’,…

This evening John Whaite will fight it out for a place in the semi-finals of…

A court has heard today that the London office of King & Wood Mallesons legacy…

As Christian Louboutin prepares to open a new dedicated men’s footwear store on London’s Dover…

One of the downsides of making loads of money as a top City lawyer is…

Paralegal Tony, a part-time LPC student and paralegal at a City law firm, says that…

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s sponsorship of the Olympics cost it £10 million. The firm’s most recent…

There was a time, before the financial crisis struck, when City lawyers travelled by plane….

TheTraineeComplex continues his bid to understand life as a City law firm trainee through reference…

Last Thursday, I wore the same shirt to work as I had on Wednesday. This…

Thought that corporate law was all about the survival of the fittest and the drive…

The high wages paid by City law firms are a kind of “risk money” to…

Success can turn on the smallest of things. Cambridge graduate Marta Sanchez (pictured left) completed…

There was an interesting ad placed on the London section of Craigslist, the classified ads…

Officially, City law firms are beacons of post-sexism enlightenment. In private, though, you hear all…

There’s a growing consensus that junior corporate lawyers are overpaid, with a recent (paywalled) survey…

Geoffrey Raymond, an artist who does annotated pictures of fallen Wall Street icons, has turned…

As you may have noted from the extract above – taken from the House of…

The lawyer who was pictured aiming what looked like a semi-automatic pistol as he drove…

Magic circle firm Linklaters has hit back at critics who claim that City law is…

To promote its recent tie-up with Australian law firm Blake Dawson, City giant Ashurst has…

On Monday, I ran a story about the dad of Hugo from Made in Chelsea,…

As a journalist, the more dramatic the story is, the better. So the post-Lehman Brothers…

Baffled police are attempting to figure out why Graeme Francis, a solicitor at Keystone Law,…

EXCLUSIVE: It wasn’t just kids in Tottenham and Hackney who got carried away during last…