Tag: Solicitors
How innovation is shaking up the legal sector
Lawyers and legal education experts share their experiences from the frontline of legal tech
My unconventional journey into law
A former chef, retail assistant and army officer explain how they made their way to Addleshaw Goddard
Law schools report rise in pro bono work as public turn to student-staffed clinics for legal advice
Most popular areas include employment, family and housing
Life as a trainee lawyer during a global pandemic
Legal Cheek Careers catches up with Irwin Mitchell's Daryna Plysak
BARBRI strikes SQE partnerships with Sussex Uni and national paralegal group
Tie-ups come as regulator defends super-exam’s MCQ format
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
Addleshaw Goddard cuts 19 lawyer roles following consultation
Redundancies in real estate team
Travers Smith restarts lawyer salary reviews and increases pay
Business services and support staff salaries remain frozen
Litigation, crime, property, immigration are legal sectors hardest hit by pandemic, report finds
But the likes of tax and employment are growing
Don’t just give SQE trainees ‘repetitive admin tasks’, regulator warns law firms
SRA seeks to protect rookies qualifying under new regime
Baker McKenzie tells lawyers to keep Wednesdays meeting-free to ‘combat Zoom fatigue’
And 1-2pm on other work days
Clifford Chance restores NQ lawyer pay following COVID cut
Exclusive: £100k package returns
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
More law firms pay back furlough funds
DAC Beachcroft and Bevan Brittan follow host of City firms in returning government cash
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
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
‘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’
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
Simmons & Simmons sets 30% ethnic minority target for trainees
Aims to achieve greater racial diversity by 2025
From 5G to the COVID vaccine — meet the lawyers working in the hottest sectors
A panel of Bristows lawyers reveal all
A&O and Clifford Chance dish out bonuses to US lawyers
Year-end and special cash rewards