Tag: Solicitors

Ropes & Gray combines contextual recruitment and CV blind in revamped trainee hiring process
US player will now recruit rookies exclusively from its vac scheme

Top Slaughter and May partner compares firm’s lawyers to ‘pack of wolves’
Taking the magic circle player's name a little too literally?

The lawyer tasked with re-imagining Norton Rose Fulbright for the AI age
It all began when a partner asked David Carter to write a report on potential innovations to improve efficiency

London law firm advertises ‘voluntary’ three-month internship
It's unclear whether the role is paid or not

Research: Over 80% of lawyers ‘dislike’ lawyers
Half believe their co-workers are lazy

DLA Piper boosts junior lawyer pay to £77,000 as City rises continue
Global giant's trainees also handed extra cash

A third of solicitors attacked or threatened, new research suggests
Vast majority of incidents took place within offices or a court

Hogan Lovells partner ordered to pay £18,000 after sacking pregnant nanny
Employment tribunal judge finds City lawyer's nanny was unfairly dismissed

Eversheds Sutherland bumps London NQ lawyer pay to £72,000
Trainees also handed pay boosts

How Lehman Brothers’ collapse paved the way for MoneyLaw and the minimum wage
2008 financial crisis shaped the legal profession as we know it

Clyde & Co bumps trainee and junior lawyer pay as it confirms autumn retention score of 83%
One NQ is on a fixed term deal

Bircham Dyson Bell and Pitmans to vote on £50 million tie-up
Firms reveal 'exploratory merger discussions'

Solicitor fined £2,000 after being caught drink-driving THREE TIMES in just one month
Regulator tipped off about convictions by two members of the public

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner posts 79% autumn retention score
Recently-merged global player retains 15 of its 19 rookies

Mid-size money movers: Forsters, Trowers & Hamlins, Withers and Farrer & Co up junior lawyer pay
Some trainees also awarded modest salary boosts

What commercial awareness is and what it should not be
Legal commentator and solicitor David Allen Green considers what this law firm buzzword actually means

Norton Rose Fulbright unveils 90% autumn retention score
Global giant retains 28 out of 31 rookies

Allen & Overy releases partner gender pay gap data following criticism from MPs
Magic circle outfit publishes 2018 and 2017 results

Allen & Overy and O’Melveny & Myers chiefs meet at Frankfurt hotel as mega-merger talks continue
Two months after representatives from both firms met in London

LawCatz: New TV chat show aims to demystify the legal world with the help of lawyers
Pilot to air on Sky next month, according to programme’s creator