Tag: Law firms
Escape Routes From The Law: Doing a Hollywood
For the legions of training contract hunters out there, being a lawyer is a dream....
Ticket Price to Oscars-style Lawyer Awards Soars to £7K
How do legal magazines that have seen their print advertising revenues plummet over the last...
Morning Round-Up: Friday 20 January
Belfast solicitor ‘linked to Triads’ – Belfast Telegraph Former judge Beatrice Bolton dog bite charges...
City Law Bonuses Reach £35K – but Brazilian lawyer earnings exceed UK counterparts
It’s often forgotten that City lawyers get bonuses. But a survey released today shows average...
AUNTIE EM’S HOMESPUN ADVICE FOR LAWYERS: ‘I put a kiss on an email to my boss’
Dear Auntie Em, I wrote an email the other day to the partner in charge...
How Would Stephen Hawking Have Fared as a City Lawyer?
Follow @legalaware The professor’s arrival would have delighted a corporate law firm PR team, but...
The Most Dysfunctional Law Firm Ever?
The recently released testimony of dodgy American lawyer Scott Rothstein – sentenced to 50 years...
AUNTIE EM’S HOMESPUN ADVICE FOR LAWYERS: ‘I got drunk and told my colleagues I hate them’
Dear Auntie Em, At last month’s office Christmas party I got very drunk and told...
Accutrainee Chief Hits Back at Critics
Follow @Accutrainee Founder of new cut-price training contract scheme responds to recent criticism from Legal...
Can Tension Between Legal Aid and Pro Bono Be Resolved?
Rather than criticise pro bono charities for “overselling” themselves, legal aid lawyers need to work...
SIX STEP GUIDE TO CHRISTMAS PARTY SALVATION
Don’t dance, or – even worse – have sex with a colleague; do mix your...
GRADUATE RECRUITMENT: ‘I WOULDN’T START FROM HERE’
Follow @legalaware Initiatives like PRIME won’t change fact current system writes off talented students far...
#RoundMyKitchenTable: TAKING A GAP YEAR TO SECURE A TRAINING CONTRACT
Law graduates Flora Duguid and Cathryn Kozlowski have both opted to take gap years before...
AUNTIE EM’S HOMESPUN ADVICE FOR LAWYERS: ‘I just love saying ‘going forward’!’
Dear Auntie Em, I consider myself a well spoken individual, who uses the English language...
‘MY WIFE, SHE DOESN’T UNDERSTAND ME…’
Follow @debbiematthews1 Debbie Matthews regrets her night out with a senior male colleague Wednesday morning....
WHY THE OBSESSION WITH A-LEVELS?
Follow @cathrynkoz Cathryn Kozlowski focused on getting top music qualifications rather than top A-levels, but...
LEGAL AWARDS CEREMONIES: THE HORROR
Follow @AlexAldridgeUK The ‘British Legal Awards’, the grandly titled money making scam awards ceremony for...
PRO BONO WEEK: OUT WITH A WHIMPER
Follow @AlasdairIS But despite the complaints from lawyers and disinterest from the press, the fact...
‘READY FOR THAT DRINK, DEBS?’
Follow @debbiematthews1 Debbie Matthews on the perils of blurring the line between work and, er,...
#TweetsOfTheWeek
Follow @LegalCheek Legal Cheek is watching you… Twitter tale from the Bar of the week...
WHAT’S DRIVING YOU, LOVE OR FEAR?
Follow @AlexAldridgeUK Don’t pursue a career on the basis of what will sound good at...