Tag: Solicitors

Shearman & Sterling lawyers look beyond General Election to the main event: Brexit

The real challenges will come once May v Corbyn battle is over

Jun 8 2017 9:50am

The acquisition of Visa Europe — from a trainee’s perspective

Macfarlanes NQ Alex Evans looks back on the higlight of his training contract

Jun 6 2017 1:58pm

Training contract numbers soar to highest level since financial crash

Places up two years on the bounce for the first time since the financial crash

Jun 5 2017 3:10pm

How the Norton Rose Fulbright energy law LLM scholarship is helping to take a young lawyer’s career to the next level

Legal Cheek Careers meets Rodica Procop, a student at Queen Mary University of London’s energy and natural resources law institute

Jun 5 2017 12:44pm

Linklaters kicks off Pride Month with rainbow-coloured reception lighting

London office receives magic makeover to celebrate all things LGBT

Jun 2 2017 12:34pm

A poem: ‘Oh, I wish I’d looked after me brief!’

Legal Cheek's resident funny man Wigapedia returns with an ode to barristers' briefs

Jun 2 2017 10:23am

Womble Bond Dickinson: Tie-up creating new £340 million transatlantic law firm confirmed

UK and US outfits cement combination following successful 'strategic alliance'

Jun 1 2017 1:59pm

Law, politics and the City

Ahead of the Legal Cheek and Shearman & Sterling General Election debate on Monday, Tim Waterson explains how an early interest in politics set him up for life in the corporate finance fast lane

Jun 1 2017 9:02am

Freshfields, Clifford Chance, BLP, Ashurst and DWF lawyers among 300 to offer support following Manchester bombing pro bono appeal

Twenty-two people were killed and dozens injured after suicide bomber targeted Ariana Grande gig

May 31 2017 4:09pm

Twiddling thumbs: decreasing demand for legal services ‘endemic’ in the profession, survey finds

A quarter of US firms said their associates don't have full workloads, and this number shoots up when you look at partners

May 31 2017 10:38am

Event: Commercial Awareness Question Time — Inside the acquisition of Visa Europe, with Macfarlanes

The lawyers who handled one of the biggest M&A deals of last year share their experiences with 50 students

May 30 2017 4:50pm

Hogan Lovells bumps junior lawyer pay packets by 5% to £75,000

Trainees will take home an extra £1,000

May 26 2017 1:08pm

The reality of taking the CILEx route: ‘I work just as hard as a solicitor for less money and less respect’

An anonymous trainee legal exec thinks attitudes to the apprenticeship need to change

May 26 2017 9:01am

Seven law firm partners named on 2017 ‘ethnic minority role model’ power list

Lawyers at Freshfields, Linklaters, Slaughter and May, Clifford Chance and BLP all make the cut

May 25 2017 2:15pm

Revealed: 60% of lawyers think visible tattoos are not acceptable in their firms and chambers

Could we see a discrimination case in the near future?

May 25 2017 10:52am

Nottingham Trent’s student-staffed ‘teaching law firm’ launches commercial advice arm

Legal centre was handed an ABS licence by the SRA in 2015

May 25 2017 9:16am

‘Don’t make snap decisions too soon’, SRA tells aspiring solicitors contemplating whether to take the LPC or the super-exam

Exclusive video interview: Legal Cheek speaks to the regulator’s director of education and training

May 23 2017 9:07am