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DLA Piper targets 30% global female partnership by 2025

Linklaters ups gender diversity target after missing previous aim

Mar 23 2021 9:38am
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Linklaters in-house tech start-up takes on firm trainees

Six-month seat option forms part of magic circle outfit’s training contract programme

Mar 16 2021 11:57am
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Linklaters adopts code to protect employees with afro hair

‘Hair discrimination remains a source of racial injustice for black people in the UK’, says magic circle firm

Mar 11 2021 11:27am
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Linklaters sets sights on becoming first magic circle law firm in Dublin

Discussions at very early stage

Mar 10 2021 3:25pm
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Freshfields targets 40% female global leadership by 2023

Diversity commitment follows appointment of first female senior partner

Mar 8 2021 2:59pm
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Top City firms confirm summer vacation schemes will stay online

Magic circle and US outfits stick to virtual programmes as COVID disruption continues

Mar 4 2021 9:12am
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Top magic circle partner makes switch to investment banking

Linklaters ➡️ JP Morgan

Feb 18 2021 2:51pm
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City Consortium to provide SQE ‘top-up courses’ for future trainees

Exclusive: Will cover legal tech and project management skills

Feb 9 2021 10:55am
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Revealed: The best law firms for legal tech 2021

From AI-powered doc review to smart contract signing software; which law firms are the most technologically advanced?

Jan 29 2021 9:13am
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Linklaters keeps 47 out of 50 NQ solicitors

Reveals BAME-only retention score in City law first

Jan 26 2021 10:16am
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Ex-magic circle trainee reveals why she quit law to live on a narrowboat

‘I found the work so boring,’ says former Linklaters lawyer Dorothy Henson

Jan 19 2021 9:45am
Linklaters reports latest gender and ethnicity pay gaps

Magic circle player reveals largely unchanged results

Jan 14 2021 11:30am
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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
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Linklaters extends virtual internship to sixth-formers

No plans to offer solicitor apprenticeships

Oct 27 2020 2:55pm
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Linklaters sets ‘aspirational’ 35% ethnic minority recruitment target for trainee solicitors

Follows similar moves by A&O and HSF

Oct 23 2020 9:20am
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Careers

Meet the magic circle lawyers helping businesses achieve their environmental, social and governance goals

Linklaters lawyers discuss the hot practice area of ESG

Oct 1 2020 11:38am
Over half of City law firm partners went to private school

Solicitors from lower socio-economic backgrounds take around 18 months longer to make partner, major report focusing on 10 top outfits finds

Sep 25 2020 11:38am
2021 TCs will be mix of online and onsite learning, say City firms

Some have already begun remote trainee inductions in response to pandemic

Sep 18 2020 9:09am

Careers

What it means to be an environment and climate change lawyer

Linklaters partner Rachel Barrett shares her career journey and discusses what her work entails

Sep 15 2020 2:06pm
Work remotely up to 50% of the time, Linklaters tells lawyers

Magic circle player to embrace WFH life post-COVID

Aug 25 2020 10:58am
Linklaters rounds off magic circle retention season with 46 trainees staying on

One on fixed-term contract

Aug 24 2020 11:33am