Autumn retention season: The good, the bad and the ugly
Legal Cheek reflects on the latest NQ results
Clifford Chance
Clifford Chance keeps 42 out of 52 autumn NQs
Magic circle giant bounces back from disappointing spring result
Allen & Overy tops magic circle financial results growth league, with Clifford Chance coming in second
Linklaters is third and Freshfields fourth, while Slaughter and May declines to take part in summer bling fest
Seven law firm partners named on 2017 ‘ethnic minority role model’ power list
Lawyers at Freshfields, Linklaters, Slaughter and May, Clifford Chance and BLP all make the cut
Clifford Chance to fund community law graduate scheme likened to Teach First
Youth advocates will help protect the legal rights of vulnerable children
Clifford Chance lawyer set to become 173rd president of the Law Society
Litigation specialist Simon Davis to take over top spot in 2019
Clifford Chance’s spring retention score slumps to 67%
Magic circle colossus keeps just 31 trainees
17 City firms secure places on LGBT employer power list
Strong showing from the legal profession in 2017 Stonewall rankings
Revealed: the law firms that trainees and junior lawyers most admire
Magic circle tag still carries kudos, but what about the rest?
‘Cosmic Cadet’: Taylor Wessing embraces new space-themed computer game to assess training contract hopefuls
Clifford Chance and Dentons considering doing the same
Clifford Chance’s profits jump by nearly a quarter as firm prepares to drastically cut training contract numbers
Magic circle giant’s partners earning more than ever before
Exclusive: Linklaters and Allen & Overy go public with plan to rescue KWM trainees
Stricken giant confirms host of other top firms also set to help rookies
Exclusive: Magic circle and other top City law firms to take on all of King & Wood Mallesons’ trainees
And stricken giant’s future trainees being pointed to priority TC vacancies
Addleshaw Goddard joins Freshfields and Clifford Chance in signing deal with artificial intelligence system ‘Kira’
Futuristic tech gets the green light after 18-month pilot
Exclusive: Solicitor suing Oxford Uni over 2:1 trained at Clifford Chance
Faiz Siddiqui bagged a magic circle training contract, but still wants £1 million for lost legal dream
Open thread: What is it like to work in the magic circle?
Share your experiences below the line
The fanciest law firm offices in Britain
Welcome to workplace heaven
Clifford Chance in chocolate fountain fiasco
Magic circle firm’s guests “splattered” after fire exit blunder
The best corporate law firm perks in London
Some great reasons to become a lawyer
Do they read the rules, or just hit ‘Play Now’? Clifford Chance trials psychometric test video game
The battle for the best wannabe lawyers intensifies
Clifford Chance is offering training contracts to ‘exceptional’ 18-year-olds
But fresh-faced law students have until third year to accept
All five magic circle firms named in 2016 ‘top graduate employers list’
But they were all beaten by Aldi
Clifford Chance cuts UK training contract numbers drastically
Magic circle firm to recruit 20 fewer trainees
Charlie Hebdo rant trainee qualifies as a solicitor and is retained by Clifford Chance
Exclusive: Magic circle firm stands by its man
Clifford Chance latest magic circle firm to release newly qualified retention rate — 82% stay on
Nine NQs head for the exit
Leaked email: Clifford Chance issues warning to lawyers who abuse free taxi privileges
Despite some partners pocketing a cool £1.23 million a year
Magic circle embraces artificial intelligence
Clifford Chance latest outfit to embrace futuristic robot-style tech to improve speed, efficiency and quality
Bar Council insists London will remain a global litigation centre as City law firms go into overdrive advising shaken clients
UK legal sector displays a stiff upper lip in wake of historic EU referendum result
University of York student with training contract offers from Clifford Chance, Freshfields and Slaughter and May makes us ALL feel bad
Pope humbled by magic circle offers
Clifford Chance ups trainee pay packets by 3.5%
Despite generous pay boost for NQs, there is no guarantee they will receive it
10 City lawyers named in ‘Power 100 Women’ list
List celebrates Square Mile’s most influential women
All five magic circle law firms named in new ‘Panama Papers’ database
Top City firms named as a result of Mossack Fonseca leak and further investigations by press
Clifford Chance seeks Chinese megafirm merger in bid for global domination
Firm declines to comment about reports that it wants to ascend beyond the magic circle
Clifford Chance and Slaughter and May will NOT offer legal apprenticeships
Government-led Trailblazer scheme is not so magic, say elite City duo
Herbert Smith Freehills pips Clifford Chance to the post in its latest partner promotions as firms strive for 30% female partners
Latest partnership promotions represent some improvement on gender diversity
Clifford Chance reveals lowest trainee retention rate of the magic circle
Spring figure doesn’t come close to dizzying autumn heights
Clifford Chance future trainee uproar as firm cancels funding for Professional Skills Course
Policy switch has left students struggling to make ends meet
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