Tag: Linklaters

City law firms take nine spots in ‘Top 50 Employers for Women’ list

Recognised for paving the way towards gender-equal workplaces

Apr 30 2021 9:05am

Linklaters bumps NQ solicitor salaries after Covid cuts

£92.5k plus discretionary bonus

Apr 22 2021 4:24pm

Linklaters targets disadvantaged teens with career support scheme

New programme also looks to help young wannabe lawyers from racially diverse backgrounds through tutoring, mentoring and work shadowing opportunities

Apr 16 2021 9:32am

DLA Piper targets 30% global female partnership by 2025

Linklaters ups gender diversity target after missing previous aim

Mar 23 2021 9:38am

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

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

Freshfields targets 40% female global leadership by 2023

Diversity commitment follows appointment of first female senior partner

Mar 8 2021 2:59pm

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

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

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

Linklaters keeps 47 out of 50 NQ solicitors

Reveals BAME-only retention score in City law first

Jan 26 2021 10:16am

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

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

Linklaters extends virtual internship to sixth-formers

No plans to offer solicitor apprenticeships

Oct 27 2020 2:55pm

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