Tag: Solicitors

7 steps to training contract application success

ULaw dean for the Chester and Liverpool campuses, Carol Draycott, shares her tips to the top ahead of Thursday’s event in Liverpool

Jan 21 2019 3:15pm

New legislation on domestic abuse heralds family law shake-up

Ban on abusers grilling victims in court among changes

Jan 21 2019 2:06pm

City law firms dominate LGBT top 100 employer list

Pinsent Masons came out on top

Jan 21 2019 8:56am

Retrial ordered in ‘Lord Harley’ fraud case following dramatic courtroom collapse

Former solicitor-advocate remains in hospital

Jan 18 2019 12:48pm

Aspiring lawyers must have drive, aptitude and interest

The legal profession has changed over the years, but Phil Sanderson of Ropes & Gray shows that some things stay the same

Jan 17 2019 3:21pm

Junior lawyers ‘endangered species’ due to automation, law prof claims

Rookies carrying out repetitive work face being 'gradually culled from firms'

Jan 17 2019 10:47am

US law firm Crowell & Moring reveals London training contract ambitions

Hopes to take on first UK trainees from September 2021

Jan 16 2019 9:05am

From trainee to London senior partner — and what I learnt along the way

Legal Cheek Careers caught up with Mayer Brown’s Sally Davies at the firm’s London office to uncover the story behind her success

Jan 15 2019 2:41pm
London City training contract lawyers

London law firm partner fined £45,000 in case with link to Panama Papers leak

Child & Child lawyer breached anti-money laundering rules, according to disciplinary finding

Jan 15 2019 11:57am

Magic circle law firm launches cannabis newsletter

Allen & Overy eyes up legal weed deals

Jan 15 2019 10:49am

Lawtech is a means to an end — it’s not about having ‘a new shiny toy’

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner’s Nick Pryor gives his insight into the past, present and future of legal technology

Jan 14 2019 2:07pm

Ex-army MP calls Leigh Day chief ‘dishonest’, claiming he has ‘completely destroyed’ lives of British soldiers

Tense committee session pits Iraq torture lawyer against parliamentarians

Jan 9 2019 3:25pm

A partner and a trainee explain why they decided to become corporate lawyers

Shearman & Sterling's New York and London offices brought to life in short clip

Jan 9 2019 3:00pm

A quarter of trainee solicitors paid below Law Society recommended minimum

New figures show improvement in number of firms heeding Chancery Lane guidance

Jan 9 2019 11:03am

How being a trainee is different (and not so different) to the way I imagined it at university

RPC trainee solicitor Joseph Akwaboa reveals his journey from theory to practice -- with a few goals on the football pitch along the way

Jan 8 2019 2:27pm

Junior solicitor claims pricey hotline will help stressed out trainees who are too scared to ask for help

But one lawyer tells Legal Cheek the service is simply 'papering over the cracks of the problem'

Jan 8 2019 8:53am

Life in a global law firm through the eyes of a trainee

Ahead of Norton Rose Fulbright’s 13 January Spring Vacation Scheme deadline, Legal Cheek Careers caught up with Dominica Cole, a former vac schemer and current trainee at the firm

Jan 7 2019 2:48pm