Tag: Solicitors
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
King & Wood Mallesons Global launches in London – a day after UK arm goes under
New firm “not presently” taking old firm trainees
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"
Alan Blacker LOSES High Court strike-off appeal
Self-styled Lord Harley was booted out of the profession last year
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
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
‘C U Next Tuesday’: Leaked emails reveal incredible bust-up between KWM partners
EXCLUSIVE: The blame game begins
How to become an IP & technology lawyer
Travers Smith’s Dan Reavill views the opportunities today as even brighter than the dotcom boom years
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
Why KWM’s demise isn’t the end of the world for its future trainees-to-no-longer-be
So law isn’t the safe career you thought
Legal Cheek talks… are trainees paid enough?
The haves and the have nots
Top barrister takes to Twitter to reveal what law schools don’t (but really should) teach their students
"Get used to being the only one on the train platform"
In defence of the solicitor super-exam… an NQ’s perspective
The SQE will stop the LPC gamble
Twitter in meltdown as it emerges lawyers representing Trump won ‘Russia Law Firm of the Year’ award
A big day for Chambers & Partners
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
Research: Over a third of trainee solicitors are being paid BELOW the Law Society’s recommended minimum salary
Chancery Lane figure is being ignored by many firms
King & Wood Mallesons notifies court of its intention to appoint administrators, again
Delaying the inevitable
Struck off Lord Harley badges himself ‘Pro bono senior counsel’ on LinkedIn
Exclusive: SRA has received complaint and is considering "next steps"
‘Cosmic Cadet’: Taylor Wessing embraces new space-themed computer game to assess training contract hopefuls
Clifford Chance and Dentons considering doing the same
Top media lawyer rewrote Instagram’s T&Cs without the legal jargon and it makes for stark reading
One-page guidance far simpler than app's official 17-page privacy policy