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Revealed: The law firms with the best perks 2022

From on-site swimming pools to freebie tickets; which corporate law firms offer the best perks?

Dec 29 2021 9:34am
Revealed: The extreme working hours of big-paying US law firms in London

Some junior lawyers are finishing work after 11pm most nights

Oct 26 2021 9:20am
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From The Gherkin to Gotham: Kirkland & Ellis to leave iconic London home after 15 years

US titan strikes deal on new ‘Gotham City’ skyscraper

Oct 12 2021 11:30am
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Kirkland’s London MoneyLaw pay plunges as dollar weakens sharply

Junior lawyers bemoan $190k+ dollar-pegged salaries

Jun 7 2021 10:22am
Pandemic-driven private equity boom helps Kirkland’s revenues soar to record $5 billion

Moneyed partners wary not to trumpet financial success in light of global crisis, according to insiders

Feb 2 2021 9:59am
Revealed: Law firms’ average work from home start and finish times 2020-21

Everything has changed over the past 12 months — but what about working hours for trainee and junior lawyers?

Jan 12 2021 9:14am

Revealed: The best law firms for training and quality of work 2020-21

The results are in! Legal Cheek’s exclusive survey can reveal the law firms with the highest scores for training and quality of work

Dec 21 2020 11:34am
Kirkland & Ellis chopping boards are actually a thing

MoneyLaw firm makes move into kitchenware?

Oct 15 2020 10:32am
‘Kirkland & End It’ is the latest corporate law meme account poking fun at the profession

Is this a new social media trend?

Jul 24 2020 9:15am
Did Davis Polk predict the pandemic?

Multi-million dollar purchase agreement, signed in February, features clever ‘COVID clause’ — but now it’s a matter for the courts

May 1 2020 8:55am
Virtual Legal Cheek Awards: Shortlist announced for Firm of the Year

Winner to be announced at exclusive online ceremony tonight from 6pm

Mar 26 2020 2:53pm
Revealed: The law firms with the best canteens

Salad bars, coffee on tap and an in-house pastry chef! Your lowdown on the law firms keeping lawyers’ rumbling tummies at bay

Mar 19 2020 12:00pm

Careers

Four high flying City lawyers at US firms share their career stories

What we learnt from an hour listening to partners from Kirkland & Ellis and Skadden, as well as associates from Shearman & Sterling and Cleary Gottlieb

Feb 20 2020 2:14pm
Careers

From India’s biggest law school to Kirkland & Ellis private equity partner in London

Aprajita Dhundia shares her career story

Jan 16 2020 11:32am
The law firms with the swankiest offices in the UK

Cue major office envy

Jan 9 2020 8:57am
Do lawyers really start work later than other people?

It depends…

Jan 7 2020 10:23am
Revealed: The law firms with the best perks 2020

Junior lawyers are a pretty pampered bunch but which firms offer the perkiest of perks?

Jan 2 2020 8:47am
Careers

Junior lawyer event: How to build a career at a US law firm in London — with BARBRI and lawyers from Cleary Gottlieb, Kirkland & Ellis, Shearman & Sterling and Skadden

Thursday 16 January 2020; open to all trainees and junior lawyers

Dec 30 2019 10:21am

Revealed: The best law firms for training and quality of work 2019-20

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Dec 6 2019 8:58am
Revealed: Law firms’ average arrive and leave the office times 2019-20

Who’s totting-up 12 hour workdays and who’s home in time for Tipping Point?

Nov 29 2019 9:09am
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