Tag: Solicitors

‘Extremely drunk’ senior partner fined £10k after kissing and touching paralegal in wine bar

Incident followed ‘extended lunch’ with colleagues

Sep 8 2020 10:34am

Weightmans retains 84% of trainees

16 out of 19

Sep 8 2020 9:11am

Hogan Lovells restarts lawyer salary reviews following COVID-19 suspension

Firm also reverses US associate pay reductions

Sep 7 2020 9:10am

Ex-Baker McKenzie boss Gary Senior — disciplinary ruling in full

Top lawyer handed £55,000 fine for trying to kiss junior colleague and influence subsequent investigation

Sep 4 2020 2:44pm

Herbert Smith Freehills sets ethnicity goal for London NQ lawyers

Proportion of minority rookies retained to ‘at least equal’ proportion of minority rookies in each intake, says firm

Sep 4 2020 10:06am

Squire Patton Boggs to let lawyers work remotely up to 50% of time

Six-month trial coincides with City office move

Sep 4 2020 7:58am

Pinsent Masons partner lands top role at Oxford Uni

Lawyer David Isaac elected provost of Worcester College

Sep 3 2020 12:01pm

A law student’s guide to overcoming ‘commercial unawareness’

Lawyers provide an overview of how the legal services market functions and explain their roles within it

Sep 2 2020 10:28am

Akin Gump drops A-Level requirement in diversity push

MoneyLaw training contract more attainable?

Sep 2 2020 9:23am

Skadden funds immigration law training contract in Manchester

US law firm's London office teams up with Legal Education Foundation

Sep 1 2020 11:22am

Home Office deletes ‘activist’ tweet amid complaints about ‘loudmouthed lawyers’ on social media

Post had been condemned by the department's top civil servant

Aug 28 2020 12:04pm

‘I got 50% on the GDL — should I resit exams or move onto the LPC?’

I already have a 2:1 Scottish law degree

Aug 28 2020 10:28am

Ashurst keeps 18 out of 20 NQ solicitors

90% autumn score

Aug 28 2020 8:17am

Life as a magic circle partner… and how it’s changed due to the pandemic

Clifford Chance’s David Metzger discusses the challenges ahead for the construction industry, what the new era of big government means for law firms and why aspiring lawyers must become better listeners

Aug 27 2020 12:14pm

Reed Smith cuts London lawyer roles in wake of pandemic

13 associates and six support staff redundant following review

Aug 27 2020 10:13am

Majority of legal workers expect a pay rise within next year, study finds

One fifth feel confident in securing a promotion despite coronavirus effect on economy

Aug 26 2020 9:09am

Work remotely up to 50% of the time, Linklaters tells lawyers

Magic circle player to embrace WFH life post-COVID

Aug 25 2020 10:58am