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From trainee to private equity partner at a magic circle law firm

Allen & Overy’s Peter Banks talks to Legal Cheek’s Sky Martle about his career journey

4 days ago
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My life as a digital rights and assets lawyer

Richard McMorris, who heads Bird & Bird’s newly formed Digital Rights & Assets practice group, highlights the qualities he thinks are required to succeed

5 days ago
Exclusive: Jones Day London partner sanctioned over inappropriate behaviour at drinks event

Drunken lawyer leaves trainee shaken and upset

Aug 27 2021 9:45am
Mid-sized City firm latest to appoint female leader

Jo Keddie takes the helm at Winckworth Sherwood from today

Jul 1 2021 10:22am
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City law firm partner struck off for exaggerating billings

Tracey Ann Sheehan ordered to pay costs of £51,615

Jun 14 2021 11:45am
Clyde & Co elects first female senior partner

Carolena Gordon takes up new role on 1 July

Jun 10 2021 12:08pm
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Slaughters targets 40% female partner promotions by 2027

Magic circle player latest to go public with diversity goals

Jun 1 2021 9:21am
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Ashurst appoints first female global chair

London partner Karen Davies takes top role from 1 August

May 28 2021 8:04am
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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
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Squire Patton Boggs targets 25% UK female partners by 2026

Firm sets diversity targets for first time

Apr 26 2021 3:54pm
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Freshfields promotes 22 lawyers to partner — 50% women

Six in London

Apr 13 2021 12:42pm
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Top Quinn Emanuel partner ‘drove at pedestrian’ during ‘aggressive’ parking row outside daughter’s nursery, court hears

London-based lawyer Boris Bronfentrinker denies dangerous driving

Mar 30 2021 12:26pm

Ex-A&O boss resurfaces at NewLaw firm

Andrew Ballheimer left magic circle outfit in October last year

Mar 25 2021 3:05pm
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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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Trainees slam remote-working

“All the old farts who bang on about WFH being ‘the future’ need to read this”

Mar 15 2021 1:21pm
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HSF appoints first female senior partner

M&A specialist Rebecca Maslen-Stannage takes up new role from 1 May

Mar 10 2021 8:53am
‘I wouldn’t wish this half-life on anyone’: Mumsnet discusses life married to a lawyer

Lawyers’ other halves reveal all

Feb 19 2021 7:51am
Hogan Lovells gets its first female solo chair

Marie-Aimée de Dampierre is one of a number of women in leadership roles at the firm

Feb 5 2021 10:45am

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The post-vaccine world through the eyes of a lawyer

Hill Dickinson’s head of banking and finance, Richard Capper, forecasts the year ahead

Jan 25 2021 2:42pm
SRA rules out Ryan Beckwith appeal

High Court had overturned SDT’s decision to fine former Freshfields partner

Dec 22 2020 10:34am
Simmons & Simmons sets 30% ethnic minority target for trainees

Aims to achieve greater racial diversity by 2025

Dec 8 2020 1:19pm