Tag: Solicitors

The Green Economy through the eyes of a planning lawyer
Anna Cartledge, a partner at Shoosmiths, sheds light on brick shortages, electronic cars and life in Birmingham

From Leeds University law grad to Linklaters fintech partner
Mark Drury survived the financial crisis and then surfed the tech wave

Revealed: Law firms’ average arrive and leave the office times 2019-20
Who’s totting-up 12 hour workdays and who’s home in time for Tipping Point?

The key qualities every clinical negligence lawyer must possess
Irwin Mitchell partner Emma Rush discusses communication skills and client empathy

Former Freshfields partner arrested in tax probe
A week after quitting magic circle firm

This is what happens when a lawyer loses his daughter’s hamster
'This is the most stressful day in my life since I took the bar exam'

‘We’re not just paying lip service to innovation — it’s part of our culture’
CMS real estate senior associate Simon Porter talks tech ahead of our ‘Innovation and the law’ event in Edinburgh

EXCLUSIVE: Former bosses of ULaw and Kaplan combine with magic circle duo to launch new ‘challenger’ law school
They’re targeting the SQE market

Strike off for solicitor who helped client conceal damages from ‘controlling’ husband
'Acted out of character'

Director of top London lawtech company Luminance faces US extradition over fraud allegations
Slaughter and May is a high profile backer of business

Aspiring lawyers can’t afford to be technophobes
Simon George, associate professor and director of ULTRA, the ULaw Technology Research Academy, highlights why it’s important for wannabe solicitors to engage with tech

How I became a commercial litigator in the City
Michael O’Donoghue, a senior associate at Hogan Lovells, discusses his day job and the firm’s tech strategy

My life as a corporate finance lawyer advising tech companies and entrepreneurs
Ahead of her appearance at ‘The Northern Powerhouse economy of the 2020s’, Addleshaw Goddard’s Carly Gulliver shares an insight into fast-growing practice

This Question Time audience member thinks all solicitors earn over £80,000 a year
Not if you're an employment lawyer in Leeds

British lawtech entrepreneur launches AI tool that identifies ‘loopholes’ in contracts
Taking the torment out of T&Cs?

Fancy eating like a lawyer? Now you can thanks to this new charity cookbook
Nigella Lawson has ordered her copy already

What the global economy of the 2020s has in store for lawyers
Three experts from Osborne Clarke reflect on the latest trends and how the legal landscape will look in the next decade

Lawtech is here to help lawyers — not replace them
Ahead of Legal Cheek’s latest careers event, ‘How tech is changing law and business’, we sit down with Herbert Smith Freehills senior associate Kushal Bhimjiani

Staffordshire Uni law grad representing himself persuades High Court to hear potentially historic benefits case — if he can raise the money
Michael Connor crowdfunding to keep anti-austerity case alive

General election 2019: Oxford educated ex-Slaughter and May lawyers go head-to-head in Middlesbrough
Former magic circle duo even attended the same private school