Tag: Solicitors

Clifford Chance faces potential SRA probe following complaint from Welsh bricklayer
Magic circle giant accused of overlooking fraud allegation

Solicitor super-exam takes centre stage as legal education and training thought leaders debate future of profession
Technology, innovation, barrister training and apprenticeships thrust into spotlight

Video: What’s the best thing about being a brand ambassador at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner?
Global outfit’s current bunch share highlights, as applications open for 12 new ambassadors

Average trainee solicitor pay down £560 since regulator scrapped minimum salary requirement
Nearly half of rookies think they're paid too little

Event: Secrets to Success London — with Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, CMS, Gowling WLG and Pinsent Masons at ULaw Moorgate
Top lawyers share their secrets to success; students ask the questions

Partners are ‘coasting to retirement’ and ‘chronically under-performing’, says new research
US law firms living in 'false sense of security' -- is the same true in the UK?

Freshfields to offer solicitor apprenticeships in Manchester
They will include super exam prep

South Bank Uni, ULaw and BPP set to overhaul undergraduate law degrees to prepare students for solicitor super-exam
Exclusive: Taking the SQE plunge

MPs take aim at magic circle over Russia dealings and Carillion collapse
Politicians' knives out for cream of corporate law crop

Dentons suspends and disciplines trainees caught accessing firm’s confidential retention plans
Four rookies on naughty step

Queen’s University Belfast vlogger beats 1,500 students to win trip to HSF’s Australia offices
Watch Morven Ross’ video and the seven other finalists below

Royal wedding: Suits actors arrive in London for former co-star’s big day
Doughty Street barrister Amal Clooney and ex-corporate lawyer Chelsy Davy also expected to attend big event

Herbert Smith Freehills opens new Canary Wharf office
Firm joins Clifford Chance in ‘Manhattan on the Thames’

Junior solicitor suspended from practice after lending assault suspect phone in custody
He was just eight months qualified

Solicitor sentenced to community service after bombarding law student with ‘creepy’ messages
He reportedly threatened to block her from practising law

Being a corporate lawyer is a ‘bulls**t job’, argues LSE professor
City law jobs are totally pointless

How one global law firm is preparing for the end of the GDL and LPC
Ahead of the Future of Legal Education and Training Conference on 23 May, Hogan Lovells training principal Crispin Rapinet talks about his firm’s plans for the new solicitor super-exam

Glass houses: MPs slam Slaughter and May’s ‘bogus’ gender pay stats, but firm followed regulations set by MPs…
Blame game begins over why City outfits didn't include partners

‘Time spent being innovative counts towards billable targets,’ Reed Smith tells lawyers
Following a successful pilot

DLA Piper to launch in Dublin as firm predicts influx of financial services work post-Brexit
Not the first outfit to rock up in Ireland since the referendum

Herbert Smith Freehills follows Linklaters in asking lawyers to disclose office romances
Staff asked to use ‘common sense’