Tag: Solicitors

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

Two months into her training contract and Eve Cornwell reveals what magic circle trainee life is like
Busy rush hour commutes, free breakfast, two mobile phones and getting to grips with time recording

Why the SQE could be ‘the best thing to happen to university legal education in decades’
The head of Leicester De Montfort Law School, Professor Kevin Bampton, welcomes the scrapping of the LPC

Some pieces of wisdom for future lawyers to take with them as they apply for TCs
Advice from BARBRI, Hill Dickinson, Irwin Mitchell, Linklaters and Pinsent Masons

City lawyers are just like people selling fruit on a market stall
Phil Sanderson, co-chair of the global private equity transactions group at Ropes & Gray, gives his own take on commercial awareness

STEM Future Lawyers and BPP launch 2020 GDL scholarship
Applications now open for science students interested in law

7 pieces of #BoomerAdvice — law edition
'OK, Boomer' ?

‘Mobile phones were big black boxes and only four of us had a computer’
Michael Luckman, an intellectual property partner at Gowling WLG, reflects on trainee life in the eighties

Legal Services Board: super-exam isn’t a done deal
Super-regulator flags concerns over quality and cost

Privacy, celebrities and the media
It's a fine balance between the freedom of the press and the privacy of individuals, says newly qualified solicitor Aisha Hussain

Why I joined a US law firm in London
Ahead of Wednesday’s event, ‘The rise of US law firms in London’, we speak to Shearman & Sterling lawyer Jonathan Swil

Bristol Uni law students offer free legal support to ex-service veterans
Advice on issues including housing, employment and social welfare