Tag: Solicitors

Bristows unveils 100% retention score
All ten trainees to be kept on

Fieldfisher dismisses stock market flotation rumours
Days after DWF confirmed it was considering a similar move

Event: How to make it as a City lawyer — with Baker McKenzie, Hogan Lovells and Mayer Brown
Top lawyers join experts from BPP University Law School, NOTICED and PRIME to help prep students — for free — ahead of the training contract application deadline

‘Lawyers are like plumbers — both will be immune from the tech revolution’
The legal profession's 'Uber moment' is a long way off, FT says

Kirkland & Ellis ups London NQ salaries to £143,000
Follows moves by US players Milbank and Simpson Thacher

More than half of all new trainees are based in London
But training contract numbers remain static since last year

Footballer Patrice Evra slammed for ‘patronising’ Slaughter and May junior lawyer over her World Cup analysis
He literally applauded Eniola Aluko's football knowledge

MPs ask Allen & Overy to hand over partner gender pay gap data — magic circle firm says no
Outfit to publish new salary stats in September

DWF set to make legal history with £1 billion London Stock Exchange flotation
Global giant's top brass could be handed £10 million share windfall... each!

How I quit my job in Shanghai and landed my dream training contract
Burges Salmon trainee Ian Bond looks back on his route to a TC

Slaughter and May lawyer scores World Cup punditry role
Associate consultant and footballer Eniola Aluko heads to Russia

The Hearing Podcast: Legal futurist Joe Raczynski on AI, blockchain and smart contracts
How close is tech to revolutionising the law?

City trainee confession: ‘I earn £45,000 a year and spend obscene amounts on ASOS — but my mum still pays my phone bill’
Money diary of a corporate rookie revealed

Love Island lawyers latest: Junior solicitor left in tears after date ‘slags her off’ to ex-legal secretary
Rosie Williams has a law degree, an LPC and an LLM

‘Lord Harley’ in court after being charged with benefits offence
Two years after he was struck off

Ince & Co redundancies will have ‘no impact’ on NQ positions — but effect on future trainee numbers unclear
Firm currently undertaking 'detailed review' of staffing levels

Legal Cheek launches new iPhone app with graduate recruitment deadline alerts
Free and easy-to-use future lawyer essential

Young law firm partner jailed after he tricked ex-S&M dungeon master into thinking he’d won £700,000 damages from Channel 4
Andrew Davies was struck off in 2016 after taking client cash and forging documents to cover his tracks

Embarrassment for Mishcon de Reya after canteen slated by food hygiene inspectors
Glamorous staff eatery scores only 1 out 5 after food safety officer inspection

Podcast: ‘There were only three women in the whole firm’ — corporate law pioneer Fiona Woolf on gender diversity in the law
We’ve come a long way since the 1970s -- but not far enough