Tag: Solicitors

My journey from marketing executive to trainee City lawyer
'It’s nerve-wracking, and you shouldn’t take the decision lightly,' says Shearman & Sterling rookie Jessica Stanion

City law: Is the juice worth the squeeze?
A trio of leading City lawyers, legal educators and diversity organisations come together for an evening of careers advice and networking

City firm financials: Mishcon de Reya, DAC Beachcroft and Gowling WLG release results
Mixed fortunes for corporate trio

Clifford Chance becomes first magic circle firm to reveal autumn retention score — 77%
Canary Wharf-based giant keeps 36 out of 47 NQs

Tommy Robinson attended media law ‘training session’ at Kingsley Napley
Court of Appeal reserves decision over former EDL leader's claim that 13-month sentence is excessive

City law firms dominate LGBT global employers power list
Stonewall’s index celebrates the efforts of organisations to create inclusive workplaces

Pinsent Masons hammered by High Court for ‘shameful’ treatment of dead oligarch’s family
International outfit accused of losing 'sight of any basic standard of decent and compassionate behaviour' in astonishing Aeroflot judgment

Eversheds Sutherland signs deal with Slaughter and May-backed artificial intelligence software
Luminance was developed by Cambridge boffins

SRA issues warning over scam emails misusing the names Osborne Clarke and Herbert Smith Freehills
It's not the first time that a firm's identity has been used in this way

City law firms want junior lawyers who are resilient and flexible — but they’re less concerned about tech skills
Over 200 industry insiders questioned as part of Legal Cheek's Future of Legal Education and Training Conference

Show me the money! City law firm partners celebrate skyrocketing profits
Macfarlanes, Travers Smith, Addleshaw Goddard, Clyde & Co and Mills & Reeve post strong financial results

Legal profession ‘poorly equipped’ to help disabled training contract and pupillage hunters
Level of support remains 'a lottery', new research suggests

Event: How to get into law as a career changer — with Irwin Mitchell, PwC and Shearman & Sterling
Hear from lawyers who’ve done it

Council report reveals why Mishcon de Reya’s canteen was slammed by food hygiene inspectors
Mouse droppings and risk of contamination cited in findings

Equity partner profits fall at Linklaters despite revenue rise
Magic circle firm's bosses still on over £1.5 million

‘Technology won’t turn the world upside down overnight — but lawyers need to embrace the gradual change that is happening’
We spoke to Catherine Hammon, Digital Revolution Knowledge Lawyer at international legal practice Osborne Clarke

The Hearing Podcast: ‘Disability isn’t just sticks and wheelchairs’
Solicitor turned diversity champion Yasmin Sheikh shares her story

14 law firms named on 2018 social mobility power list
Top 10 spots for Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner and Baker McKenzie

Social media is everywhere — but the law governing it remains a speciality form of practice: Here’s how to get into it
ULaw associate professor Peter Goodchild looks back on a career that began as an IP and IT lawyer in the City

Mishcon de Reya cuts billable targets by 20% to encourage tech-minded lawyers to be more innovative
Follows similar move by Reed Smith

The story of how 25-year-old City lawyers came to earn £143,000 a year
A handy video explainer