Tag: Solicitors

Solicitor sentenced to community service after bombarding law student with ‘creepy’ messages

He reportedly threatened to block her from practising law

May 17 2018 1:48pm

Being a corporate lawyer is a ‘bulls**t job’, argues LSE professor

City law jobs are totally pointless

May 17 2018 10:28am

How one global law firm is preparing for the end of the GDL and LPC

Ahead of the Future of Legal Education and Training Conference on 23 May, Hogan Lovells training principal Crispin Rapinet talks about his firm’s plans for the new solicitor super-exam

May 16 2018 2:34pm

DLA Piper to launch in Dublin as firm predicts influx of financial services work post-Brexit

Not the first outfit to rock up in Ireland since the referendum

May 15 2018 12:51pm

The super-exam uncertainty that lies ahead

The SQE presents an opportunity 'to do something dynamic and innovative', says ULaw chief Peter Crisp, if a clear framework can be agreed

May 15 2018 9:09am

How three successful lawyers developed their soft skills

Hardwicke’s Brie Stevens-Hoare QC, Herbert Smith Freehills’ Sid Shukla and Axiom’s Atik Ahmed share their experiences

May 14 2018 3:52pm

Event: Innovation in the law — with Pinsent Masons in Glasgow

Commercial Awareness Question Time comes to Scotland

May 12 2018 4:30pm

Tort lawyers won’t be required in 30 years, suggests top judge

Could Donoghue v Stevenson be ditched from law school syllabuses?

May 10 2018 2:35pm

Lord Chancellor wants more top City lawyers to become judges

But they'll likely need to take a pay cut

May 10 2018 11:50am

My training contract isn’t what I thought it’d be — what now?

Wondering if there is a life outside law

May 9 2018 10:51am

‘The SQE is a floor on which we can build things, not a ceiling to limit us’

Adam Curphey, White & Case solicitor turned head of innovation technology at BPP University Law School, discusses the growing importance of lawtech as a theme in vocational training

May 8 2018 3:52pm

Legal aid row: ‘Go back to the drawing board’, Labour tells government ahead of today’s Commons debate

Over 100 chambers now refusing to take on new legal aid cases

May 8 2018 11:03am

‘I studied law at Cambridge and worked at Clifford Chance, now I own an award-winning Chinese restaurant’

Multi-tasking pro Helen Tse speaks to Legal Cheek about being a law firm partner, restauranteur, businesswoman and published author, all at the same time

May 4 2018 10:24am

Boxer Tony Bellew calls law firm partner ‘Will from The Inbetweeners’ in awkward pre-fight press conference

Then actor who played TV show's Jay turned up and handed him glasses and a briefcase

May 4 2018 9:01am