Tag: Solicitors

Super-exam could damage ‘credibility’ of solicitor qualification, junior lawyers warn
JLD urges super-regulator to think carefully before giving new exam final sign-off

3 essential skills all junior lawyers must master
Law firm life can be tough, says Cleary Gottlieb associate Eloise Skinner. Here’s how to master it

Enough about Brexit and lawtech: climate change is the ‘mega theme’ on every energy and infrastructure lawyer’s lips
Mark Richards, a partner at BCLP, reflects on his time at the firm

Jury duty: reflections of a first year law student
Seeing law applied first-hand is an invaluable experience for aspiring lawyers, says law and history undergrad David Dee

6 areas future lawyers need to reflect on in order to stand out from the crowd
Pinsent Masons solicitors share their advice

London law firm senior partner fined for failing to ID driver of speeding company car
£900 and six penalty points

Cleary Gottlieb ups London junior lawyer pay by 11% to £133,000
US outfit's rookies handed extra cash too

What a greener future means for lawyers
Osborne Clarke environmental partner Matthew Germain shares his forecasts for the decade ahead

Linklaters’ top brass see earnings jump by 17% as profit pot hits £25 million
Published accounts reveal eyewatering earnings

Top CPS lawyer scoops ULaw honorary doctorate
Eran Cutliffe appeared in BBC legal documentary The Prosecutors

A day in the life of a civil fraud lawyer
Practice area insight from RPC solicitors and Hardwicke barrister

Awkward typo spotted in ‘Thiry-Third Edition’ of contract law bible
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Olympic bomb hoax barrister banned from legal profession
Michael Shrimpton, who was disbarred in 2018, subject to further regulatory action -- this time by the SRA

How I secured a training contract in the Edinburgh office of an international law firm
Matt Finnie, a second-year trainee at Addleshaw Goddard, on how to forge a career in the law

BPP grad denied licence to practise law over LLM plagiarism
Applied for foreign lawyer status

It’s important to have a passion outside law
Hill Dickinson partner Ian Gillis on martial arts, Manchester and the importance of a commercial mindset

Super-exam pass rates could be higher than LPC, says boss of new SQE mega provider
Comments come after Linklaters training chief revealed fear that more magic circle rookies could fail SQE