Tag: Solicitors

Legal work experience opportunities fall by 11%
Biggest industry decrease

‘18-hour days and sleepless nights’: Love Island solicitor Rosie reveals why she quit law in tense interview with Piers Morgan
She wanted to do crime and family but ended up at a commercial outfit

Latham & Watkins becomes latest firm to hike London junior solicitor pay to £143,000
US summer pay war continues to rock UK market

‘I was no longer able to cope’: Junior solicitor who backdated 23 letters ‘to buy time’ is struck off
She’d only been qualified for three years

Akin Gump ups London NQ pay to coveted £143,000
Follows moves by Kirkland & Ellis, Milbank and Simpson Thacher

Law balloons are now a thing thanks to Love Island solicitor Rosie Williams
Her legacy will live on after show exit

Accountancy giant Deloitte enters legal services market
Final member of the 'Big Four' granted ABS licence

Six spacetech start-ups to join Dentons innovation hub
Satellite propulsion system and farming robots among successful applicants

AI may be the solution, but it’s lawyers that know the questions to ask
Leading lawyers and technologists come together to discuss all things tech

Mayer Brown confirms 80% autumn trainee retention score
International outfit keeps eight of its ten NQs

British ‘lawyer’ twins convicted of assault following attack on Dubai police officer
London law grads face deportation

Bristows unveils 100% retention score
All ten trainees to be kept on

Fieldfisher dismisses stock market flotation rumours
Days after DWF confirmed it was considering a similar move

Event: How to make it as a City lawyer — with Baker McKenzie, Hogan Lovells and Mayer Brown
Top lawyers join experts from BPP University Law School, NOTICED and PRIME to help prep students — for free — ahead of the training contract application deadline

‘Lawyers are like plumbers — both will be immune from the tech revolution’
The legal profession's 'Uber moment' is a long way off, FT says

Kirkland & Ellis ups London NQ salaries to £143,000
Follows moves by US players Milbank and Simpson Thacher

More than half of all new trainees are based in London
But training contract numbers remain static since last year

Footballer Patrice Evra slammed for ‘patronising’ Slaughter and May junior lawyer over her World Cup analysis
He literally applauded Eniola Aluko's football knowledge

MPs ask Allen & Overy to hand over partner gender pay gap data — magic circle firm says no
Outfit to publish new salary stats in September

DWF set to make legal history with £1 billion London Stock Exchange flotation
Global giant's top brass could be handed £10 million share windfall... each!