Tag: Solicitors

New Brexit secretary was a trainee solicitor at Gowling legacy firm Lawrence Graham
Stephen Barclay replaces ex-Linklaters lawyer Dominic Raab

10 tips for getting a training contract or pupillage
Find your unique selling point

CMS, Pinsent Masons and DWF among firms to offer ‘returnships’ to help lawyers back into law following career breaks
Up to 40 paid six-month placements available

What does Brexit mean for future lawyers?
Over 200 students headed to Linklaters’ Silk Street office to find out

The Apprentice: High street solicitor remains in competition following chaotic gardening task
Sarah Ann Magson keeps lawyer winner dream alive

Kirkland & Ellis launches concierge service to help its busy junior lawyers with personal ‘to-do lists’
One associate has already used the mega-perk to help her move house

Business class passenger claiming to be a ‘f**king international lawyer’ filmed verbally abusing cabin crew after being refused more booze
The incident occurred on an Air India flight from Mumbai to London on Saturday

Event: How technology is changing law and business — with Addleshaw Goddard in Manchester
Leading lawyers share their experiences, future lawyers ask the questions

Final legal advice on Brexit to be disclosed to MPs
'Legal professional privilege' gets rare airtime in Commons

Solicitor dresses up as Legally Blonde’s Elle Woods for ‘best fictional lawyer’ event
Outfit included fluffy pup

Eversheds Sutherland rolls out Facebook-style app letting lawyers ‘share, like and rate’ innovation ideas
Firm's staff can also request solutions to specific problems

First ever law scholarship for STEM students unveiled
STEM Future Lawyers joins forces with BPP University Law School to launch GDL scholarship for science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) students

Junior solicitor whose hair fell out as she struggled to meet billing targets struck off after successful SRA appeal
Sovani James handed two-year ban earlier this year for faking documents

Sidley Austin lawyer’s widow reveals how work pressures pushed her husband to suicide in heartbreaking open letter
Gabe MacConaill committed suicide in the carpark of the firm's Los Angeles office last month

The tension between innovation and regulation
Osborne Clarke lawyers discuss the big commercial awareness question of the moment

Event: The growth of international law firms in the UK — with CMS in Sheffield
Tuesday 20 November at CMS's Sheffield office

Legal Entrepreneurs: How a Schillings trainee made it to The Independent — and then quit to start his own media law firm
Reviewed & Cleared CEO David Burgess shares what led him to leave his high-flying job and run a business

New solicitor super-exam ‘likely’ to cost between £3,000 – £4,500
But SRA delays implementation date until September 2021, one year later than previously proposed

Ex-Daily Mail editor defends newspaper’s decision to describe judges as ‘enemies of the people’
'The point needed to be made', says Paul Dacre

Exclusive: Tycoon tried to source City training contract for businessman’s daughter during multi-million pound property deal negotiations
Fladgate, Macfarlanes, K&L Gates among firms approached without success, according to High Court