Tag: Solicitors

Royal Opera row: hedge fund lawyer guilty of assault after punching fashion designer in dispute over spare seat
Attack occurred during performance of Wagner

What Boris Johnson’s big majority means for the legal profession and those seeking to enter it
Focus on innovation, the North and alternatives to higher education could impact lawyers

Richard Susskind: My case for online courts
Profession’s foremost technology expert offers up his digital vision of the future, in exclusive article for Legal Cheek

Five hot commercial awareness issues that future lawyers need to be thinking about
Lawyers from BARBRI, BCLP, Gowling WLG, Ropes & Gray and Squire Patton Boggs share their wisdom

Should junior City lawyers aim to save half their salary?
Rookie solicitors shouldn’t be 'owned by their lifestyle', says QC, as new MP, 23, pledges to give more than half of her salary to charity

Former Hill Dickinson solicitor leading race to replace Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Leader
Rebecca Long-Bailey also worked for Pinsent Masons and the now defunct Halliwells

Four fintech predictions from four seriously clued-up lawyers
Practice area insight from experts at Linklaters

Freshfields investigations partner leaves firm after investigation
Exit comes in same week magic circle player moved step closer to introducing fines for misbehaving lawyers

Revealed: The best law firms for peer support and partner approachability 2019-20
Winner to be announced at the Legal Cheek Awards on 26 March 2020, alongside a host of other categories

Solicitor revealed as owner of ‘rip-off’ driving licence renewal website leaves law firm
Property specialist Simon Button named in national newspaper

How technology is changing the business of law
Herbert Smith Freehills lawyers talk tech transforming the firm

Burges Salmon lawyers embrace election fever with office fancy dress
Jo Swinson looks unimpressed

Being innovative counts towards billable targets, CMS tells lawyers
Follows similar creativity-boosting moves by Reed Smith and Mishcon de Reya

Lawtech and what it means for future lawyers
Experts from across the City share their insights

Embattled barristers ‘masquerading as sociopaths’ and stressed-out solicitors who don’t want to be ‘seen as weak’
Radio show puts lawyer wellbeing under spotlight

SRA to make decision on SQE1 skills assessment in New Year
Feedback from spring pilot advised it be ditched

The lowdown on US law firms in London
Shearman & Sterling lawyers give commercial awareness master class

Lawtech could cull 35,000 legal roles by 2027, Law Society predicts
Secretaries hardest hit -- but lawyer numbers likely to rise

Clyde & Co to offer six month data science seats to trainee lawyers
New TC option sees rookies work alongside machine learning engineers and computer whizzes from UCL
Clifford Chance teaches ALL trainee solicitors how to build apps
Magic circle rookies get their geek on in four-hour hackathon

Student Event: Secrets to Success Leeds — with Squire Patton Boggs, Kings Chambers, Womble Bond Dickinson and ULaw
Wednesday 11 December at ULaw Leeds; open to all students and graduates