Tag: Solicitors
Beyond SQE: The must-have skills to thrive as a junior lawyer
Andrea Spears discusses the differences between academic life and legal practice and how BARBRI aims to bridge this gap
Solicitor fined for sending ‘threatening’ letters to nearly 250 schools about Covid measures
Not 'friendly warnings', tribunal finds
Research: Poor lawyer wellbeing costing big law firms £65 million a year
Staff working with mental health struggles
Pro bono in action: How one global law firm is making a lasting impact
Pinsent Masons senior associate Meghan Higgins on the importance of pro bono and the skills it teaches junior lawyers
Autumn budget: Further cuts to justice ‘untenable’, Law Society warns
The Chancery Lane body says MoJ needs essential funding to address courts backlog
‘The low SQE pass rate has me stressing’
One aspiring lawyer is eager to know what the most challenging part is and why
Lawyers serving clients’ interests has its limits, says top UCL boffin, amid Harvey Weinstein and Post Office scandals
Legal professionals owe a duty to society too
SRA report: Over half of lawyers hold positive views on SRA
Quarter have negative opinion
Travers launches ‘AI Academy’
New training initiative follows similar move by Linklaters
Burges Salmon boosts Bristol NQ solicitor salaries to £72,000
Rises in Edinburgh and trainees too
SRA still unable to confirm timeline for revealing SQE provider pass rates
Crucial comparison data was due by the end of 2023
Top UK law firms hike hourly rates by 40% in five years
Inflation busting
Law firms lead the way in latest social mobility index
Charity behind powerlist urges government to mandate class background reporting for big firms
Who is claiming the biggest slice of the SQE prep market pie?
As a major law firm overhauls its SQE partnership, Legal Cheek assesses the battle for law school dominance
The 3 I’s: Law Society unveils new AI strategy
'Innovation, impact and integrity'
From rising football star to City law firm partner
Baker McKenzie’s Tom Edwards discusses his early sports career, the ‘buzz’ of exciting deals and wellbeing in law
Former London US law firm lawyer guilty of stalking neighbours
Convicted alongside mother
CMS bumps London NQ lawyer pay to £110k
Rises in regions too