Tag: Solicitors

Life as a trainee lawyer during a global pandemic

Legal Cheek Careers catches up with Irwin Mitchell's Daryna Plysak

Dec 16 2020 12:30pm

BARBRI strikes SQE partnerships with Sussex Uni and national paralegal group

Tie-ups come as regulator defends super-exam’s MCQ format

Dec 16 2020 10:34am

What will the green revolution mean for lawyers?

Herbert Smith Freehills partners and associates discuss the present and future role of Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) goals in light of recent government policy announcements

Dec 15 2020 2:30pm

Addleshaw Goddard cuts 19 lawyer roles following consultation

Redundancies in real estate team

Dec 15 2020 12:00pm

Travers Smith restarts lawyer salary reviews and increases pay

Business services and support staff salaries remain frozen

Dec 14 2020 10:49am

Don’t just give SQE trainees ‘repetitive admin tasks’, regulator warns law firms

SRA seeks to protect rookies qualifying under new regime

Dec 11 2020 12:08pm

Clifford Chance restores NQ lawyer pay following COVID cut

Exclusive: £100k package returns

Dec 11 2020 8:28am
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What will the SQE mean for me?

Legal education experts from BARBRI, Flex Legal, Reed Smith and Squire Patton Boggs discuss the Solicitors Qualifying Exam and how it is expected to shake up legal training

Dec 10 2020 10:13am

More law firms pay back furlough funds

DAC Beachcroft and Bevan Brittan follow host of City firms in returning government cash

Dec 10 2020 9:12am

Clifford Chance ditches ‘Dear Sirs’ and ‘Chairman’ in inclusivity push

Magic circle player calls time on gendered language in legal correspondence following similar moves by Freshfields and Quinn Emanuel

Dec 9 2020 2:03pm

Underpaid, stressed and bullied: Experiences of BAME solicitors laid bare in new report

Law Society research compares experiences of black, asian and minority ethnic solicitors with white counterparts

Dec 9 2020 1:06pm

‘How I helped steer a global law firm through the pandemic’

Ahead of Friday’s virtual event, Mayer Brown’s London managing partner Sally Davies discusses the remote-working revolution -- and why failing to embrace change would be a ‘travesty’

Dec 9 2020 12:05pm

Home-working: 3 out of 4 solicitors experiencing feelings of isolation and lack of motivation

Cracks beginning to show in WFH model, particularly among juniors, report finds

Dec 9 2020 9:28am

Simmons & Simmons sets 30% ethnic minority target for trainees

Aims to achieve greater racial diversity by 2025

Dec 8 2020 1:19pm

A&O and Clifford Chance dish out bonuses to US lawyers

Year-end and special cash rewards

Dec 8 2020 10:44am

The future of tech in legal education

Tracy Savage, BARBRI’s academic head of UK programmes, discusses how the provider is using tech within its new SQE prep course and the skills lawyers of the future need to succeed

Dec 7 2020 12:45pm

Slaughter and May boosts Xmas bonuses but sticks with pay freeze

Also reinstates partner distributions

Dec 4 2020 12:21pm

8 insights into trainee life at Reed Smith

A panel of trainees offer their advice to aspiring City lawyers

Dec 4 2020 11:12am