Tag: Solicitors

17 City firms secure places on LGBT employer power list

Strong showing from the legal profession in 2017 Stonewall rankings

Jan 19 2017 11:04am

Research: London-based NQ pay packets rocket by 23% to £65,000 average in just three years

Twenty-six thousand pounds more than their North West counterparts

Jan 19 2017 10:01am

Revealed: the law firms that trainees and junior lawyers most admire

Magic circle tag still carries kudos, but what about the rest?

Jan 19 2017 9:24am

The scenic route to the magic circle

Hannah McCarthy qualified as a New York attorney -- and in September started a training contract with Freshfields in London

Jan 18 2017 2:13pm

King & Wood Mallesons Global launches in London – a day after UK arm goes under

New firm “not presently” taking old firm trainees

Jan 18 2017 12:06pm

Cardiff graduate sent home from Eversheds office because employer could not accommodate her peanut allergy

Temp adamant she was safe, but law firm's print company supplier had "no time or resources for a risk assessment"

Jan 18 2017 9:18am

Alan Blacker LOSES High Court strike-off appeal

Self-styled Lord Harley was booted out of the profession last year

Jan 17 2017 4:23pm

Managing partner says he’s ‘very sorry’ as he reveals KWM will file for administration today

Firm's stricken European arm will change its name to QSP Residual Recoveries LLP

Jan 17 2017 1:49pm

From vacation scheme to NQ solicitor

Rob Hobson made a late decision to go into law, but he’s just about to start life as a Mayer Brown lawyer

Jan 17 2017 12:42pm

How to become an IP & technology lawyer

Travers Smith’s Dan Reavill views the opportunities today as even brighter than the dotcom boom years

Jan 16 2017 1:15pm

Baker McKenzie goes on record to give its Brexit/Trump predictions, and it thinks M&A activity will ‘drop sharply’

International giant makes its forecast, as Law Society warns UK solicitors might be less desirable to US firms

Jan 16 2017 10:30am

Legal Cheek talks… are trainees paid enough?

The haves and the have nots

Jan 13 2017 3:02pm

In defence of the solicitor super-exam… an NQ’s perspective

The SQE will stop the LPC gamble

Jan 13 2017 9:35am

Exclusive: King & Wood Mallesons to cancel all training contracts TOMORROW in prep for administration

Rookies to work as paralegals at new firms until SRA re-registers them

Jan 12 2017 8:58am