Tag: City
‘Senior Partners At Major Law Firms Can’t Afford To Live In Central London’, Claims Top US Lawyer
Mark Herrmann, a senior in-house lawyer at multinational company Aon, has recently moved to London...
It’s Official: City Lawyers Hate Their Jobs
At last night’s Life With Law talk on ‘finding your path and making things happen’,...
Great British Bake Off Star John Whaite Rejected Eversheds To Pursue Baking Dream
This evening John Whaite will fight it out for a place in the semi-finals of...
London Office Of King & Wood Mallesons Evacuated After Solicitor Sent a Cheque Covered In Dog Sh*t
A court has heard today that the London office of King & Wood Mallesons legacy...
How ‘Statement’ Can Male Lawyers Be With Their Choice Of Footwear?
As Christian Louboutin prepares to open a new dedicated men’s footwear store on London’s Dover...
Chakrabarti Household’s Main Breadwinner Upgrades To The Magic Circle
One of the downsides of making loads of money as a top City lawyer is...
How To Land a PAID Paralegal Position And Qualify As a Solicitor Without Drowning In Debt
Paralegal Tony, a part-time LPC student and paralegal at a City law firm, says that...
Did Freshfields’ Olympics Sponsorship Come Out Of The Pro Bono Budget?
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s sponsorship of the Olympics cost it £10 million. The firm’s most recent...
City Lawyer Admits To ‘Trying It On’ With Woman On Edinburgh-London National Express Coach
There was a time, before the financial crisis struck, when City lawyers travelled by plane....
Feeling Important: Possible As a Trainee Solicitor?
TheTraineeComplex continues his bid to understand life as a City law firm trainee through reference...
Same Shirt, Different Day: Freudian Explanation?
Last Thursday, I wore the same shirt to work as I had on Wednesday. This...
Lawyers Are Like Meerkats And Naked Vole Rats, Claims Ex-Freshfields Managing Partner
Thought that corporate law was all about the survival of the fittest and the drive...
‘Employees Too Stressed To Eat Or Sleep’: Ex-Freshields Lawyer Goes Public On Life In The Magic Circle
The high wages paid by City law firms are a kind of “risk money” to...
PODCAST: Laying Down On a Bed Of Norton Roses
Success can turn on the smallest of things. Cambridge graduate Marta Sanchez (pictured left) completed...
City Lawyer Offers ‘Free Accommodation To An Attractive Female In Exchange For Intimacy’
There was an interesting ad placed on the London section of Craigslist, the classified ads...
Male Colleagues Nicknamed Me ‘Tiny Tits’, Says Ex-Clifford Chance Intern Who ‘Trained As a Lawyer In London’
Officially, City law firms are beacons of post-sexism enlightenment. In private, though, you hear all...
Greedy Associates: Freshfields Temp Scheme Could Freeze Junior Lawyer Pay For a Generation
There’s a growing consensus that junior corporate lawyers are overpaid, with a recent (paywalled) survey...
Picture of Ex-Dewey & LeBoeuf Boss To Sell For £30K
Geoffrey Raymond, an artist who does annotated pictures of fallen Wall Street icons, has turned...
Linklaters Pays Alistair Darling £15,300 For Making a Speech
As you may have noted from the extract above – taken from the House of...
Shearman & Sterling Lawyer Could Be Jailed For Pointing Gun At Photographer
The lawyer who was pictured aiming what looked like a semi-automatic pistol as he drove...