Tag: Solicitors

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?

May 24 2018 9:09am

Freshfields to offer solicitor apprenticeships in Manchester

They will include super exam prep

May 22 2018 1:58pm

MPs take aim at magic circle over Russia dealings and Carillion collapse

Politicians' knives out for cream of corporate law crop

May 21 2018 2:33pm

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

May 18 2018 11:49am

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

May 18 2018 10:47am

Herbert Smith Freehills opens new Canary Wharf office

Firm joins Clifford Chance in ‘Manhattan on the Thames’

May 18 2018 9:53am

Solicitor sentenced to community service after bombarding law student with ‘creepy’ messages

He reportedly threatened to block her from practising law

May 17 2018 1:48pm

Being a corporate lawyer is a ‘bulls**t job’, argues LSE professor

City law jobs are totally pointless

May 17 2018 10:28am

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

May 16 2018 2:34pm

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

May 15 2018 12:51pm

The super-exam uncertainty that lies ahead

The SQE presents an opportunity 'to do something dynamic and innovative', says ULaw chief Peter Crisp, if a clear framework can be agreed

May 15 2018 9:09am

How three successful lawyers developed their soft skills

Hardwicke’s Brie Stevens-Hoare QC, Herbert Smith Freehills’ Sid Shukla and Axiom’s Atik Ahmed share their experiences

May 14 2018 3:52pm

Event: Innovation in the law — with Pinsent Masons in Glasgow

Commercial Awareness Question Time comes to Scotland

May 12 2018 4:30pm

Tort lawyers won’t be required in 30 years, suggests top judge

Could Donoghue v Stevenson be ditched from law school syllabuses?

May 10 2018 2:35pm