Tag: Solicitors

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

Trump-Russia probe: Former City lawyer jailed for 30 days
Ex-Skadden associate admitted misleading FBI investigators

Transatlantic tie-up: Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner goes live
New outfit led by female duo

‘Her credentials speak for themselves’: CPS chief Alison Saunders to join Linklaters
Magic circle bound after controversial five-year tenure

The partner problem means law firm gender pay gap stats are pretty useless
A clutter of results impossible to compare

I haven’t heard back from my vac scheme interview for six weeks — what should I do?
I emailed a month ago but the firm ignored me

‘When I interviewed for Slaughter and May I was living as a man called Matthew, by the time I started my training contract I was a woman called Clare’
Legal Cheek interviews transgender lawyer Clare Fielding

Ten secrets shared on how to secure pupillage
Ahead of Legal Cheek’s Secrets to Success event in Leeds, criminal barrister turned ULaw dean Tom Macdonald gives his top tips

Solicitor super-exam one step closer to reality following watchdog approval
Goodbye LPC and GDL?

Clifford Chance reveals 44% gender pay gap – but figure includes mega-earning partners
First firm to calculate its salary statistic in this way

Allen & Overy partner to give evidence before MPs on abuse of non-disclosure agreements in sex harassment cases
Magic circle titan hit headlines over historic role in Harvey Weinstein scandal

There’s now a ‘Secret Solicitor’ on the Twitter scene
The Secret Barrister moniker inspires law firm counterpart, but tells Legal Cheek he doubts he'll be as successful

Junior solicitor ditches law to become a clown
But confesses comical career change isn’t ‘financially stable’