Tag: Solicitors

Five City firms named in LGBT ‘top global employers’ index

Stonewall list celebrates efforts to promote inclusivity at work

Jul 3 2017 2:29pm

Law firms are not looking for ‘the polished, finished article’

Ahead of How to make it as a City Lawyer, BPP lecturer and former City lawyer Charlie Radcliffe talks training contracts and showing your 'human side'

Jun 30 2017 12:04pm

Dentons junior associate charged with extortion for trying to squeeze £160,000 from his OWN partners

Michael Potere threatened to leak confidential info, according to court papers

Jun 30 2017 11:17am

Mayer Brown reveals 73% autumn retention score

Global outfit keeps eight of its 11 NQs

Jun 29 2017 12:28pm

Bouncebackability: Ashurst’s revenue climbs by 7% after turbulent 12 months

Meanwhile Linklaters and Taylor Wessing unveil mixed financial fortunes

Jun 29 2017 12:10pm

QC sparks outrage after comparing solicitors to postmen

Simon Spence’s controversial comments appear in his election manifesto

Jun 28 2017 11:21am

There’s less office politics in law than any other industry, new research finds

Nearly a third of survey respondents thought engaging in water cooler tittle-tattle will help further their careers

Jun 28 2017 9:39am

An engineering graduate’s journey into law

Ahead of 'How to make it as a City Lawyer', Mayer Brown associate Emma Sturt considers the skills that science students bring to the legal profession

Jun 26 2017 3:14pm

Clyde & Co associate struck off after sending ‘misleading’ emails to conceal £500,000 error

Rajpal Singh Ahluwalia’s case collapsed after he missed an important deadline

Jun 23 2017 12:57pm

Get out there and meet lawyers, there is no better preparation

Hogan Lovells partner Chris Hutton recalls how a teacher who "pushed us to apply to places we had never dreamed of applying to" helped put him on the right track

Jun 23 2017 12:05pm

Eversheds Sutherland launches new legal service for start-ups thanks to one of its trainees

'ES Disrupt': international outfit taps into London's buoyant entrepreneur scene

Jun 22 2017 1:06pm

Worry more about AI going wrong, says Slaughter and May

Magic circle giant highlights pitfalls of new technology

Jun 22 2017 9:03am

US outfit Goodwin Procter launches London training contract schemes

News follows firm’s involvement in KWM trainee rescue mission

Jun 21 2017 3:50pm

From King’s College London law student to Ashurst partner

As Ashurst's training contract deadline looms, we talk to banking law specialist Nick Wong about his career to date

Jun 21 2017 2:03pm

City law firms dominate first ever social mobility employer index

MoJ and Inner Temple also recognised for their endeavours to help disadvantaged young people

Jun 21 2017 12:18pm

Why I regret my magic circle training contract

Career mistakes: Legal Cheek meets a soon-to-be NQ, a paralegal and an LPC student

Jun 20 2017 10:04am

Why lawyers need to be good listeners

Ahead of Legal Cheek and Macfarlanes' deal-themed Commercial Awareness Question Time next week, partner Nicholas Barclay offers future solicitors some advice

Jun 16 2017 11:44am