Tag: Solicitors

Online scammers impersonate City solicitor as part of ‘air crash’ payout scam
Norton Rose Fulbright stresses the emails are bogus

‘Ministry of Injustice’: Lawyers hold candlelight vigil over legal aid cuts
Barristers have been refusing to take new publicly-funded cases since 1 April

‘I’m a future trainee who is Asian and working class: This is what diversity means to me’
Shez Anjum reveals how he overcame prejudices to win 'Trainee of the Year'

Private school slammed over bus ad showing boys as aspiring lawyers but girls becoming vocalists
£34,000-a-year school says aspirations are 'personal' to the students

CMS reveals 75% spring trainee retention score
As first anniversary of triple merger fast approaches

Criminal defence solicitors face extinction, warns Law Society
Lack of young lawyers entering the field has left justice system facing a 'cliff edge scenario'

Legal watchdog moves to quell MPs’ super-exam fears after dismissing calls to delay approval
SQE received provisional go-ahead last month

Event: You’ve qualified — now where next?
Legal Cheek junior lawyer soft skills workshop and social, with Axiom, Hardwicke and Herbert Smith Freehills

Baker McKenzie and Reed Smith boost junior lawyer pay to £75,000
Rises for some trainees too

Fall of the robots? 86% of Brits prefer legal advice from humans
Though a quarter wouldn’t mind robotised MPs

Reed Smith to launch Leeds support hub
No plans at present to offer training contracts

Squire Patton Boggs and Trump’s personal lawyer part ways after FBI office raid
The President has described the search as an 'attack on our country'

‘It’s virtually impossible to reach the top of City firms without straight hair’
Is black hair and professionalism an oxymoron? An aspiring lawyer looks at the research
Allen & Overy in merger talks with US giant O’Melveny & Myers to create transatlantic magic circle megafirm
Deal would be a legal market game-changer -- if it happens

Dentons targets spacetech sector with new innovation hub
To boldly go where no law firm has gone before?

‘Skinny ties are for Hoxton bars’: We review the former BLP trainee’s fashion advice so controversial the firm banned it
Katherine Cousins, now an associate, turned her tips into a book

Clifford Chance launches ‘Tech Academy’ to help lawyers get to grips with coding
AI, blockchain and cybersecurity lessons also on the menu

Allen & Overy launches South London flexible working hub
Vauxhall satellite office will ‘significantly’ cut commuting time

Deadline for gender pay gap reporting is today — here’s how law firms have done
The outfits with the biggest (and smallest) pay gaps in the City

Beano sends spoof cease and desist letter to Jacob Rees-Mogg
It orders MP to stop ‘masquerading’ as one its cartoon characters