Tag: Solicitors

The Brexit effect? Top US law firm offers Dublin training contracts

Thankfully this won’t impact Dechert's London trainee numbers

Jan 12 2018 2:40pm

City law chiefs want all future trainees to sit super-exam from 2022

Despite SRA suggesting transitional period could run into 2030s

Jan 12 2018 1:57pm

Event: Technology and the future of legal practice — with Womble Bond Dickinson in Leeds

Apply to attend Legal Cheek's latest free student event

Jan 11 2018 4:03pm

Don’t leave trainees in retention limbo, Law Society tells firms

Rookies should know whether they're hired or fired at least eight weeks before qualification

Jan 11 2018 11:15am

Tech is changing law firms but they will always need grounded, intelligent people who give meaning to things through language

Travers Smith’s Emily Clark tells Alex Wade about what she has learned on her path from Oxford history graduate to City law firm partner via a stint working in the charity sector

Jan 10 2018 3:44pm

Solicitor whose firm went under owing £200,000 in barrister fees struck off

His actions were ‘deliberate, calculated and repeated’

Jan 10 2018 2:56pm

West Country’s answer to Square Mile increases clout as Simmons & Simmons doubles its Bristol office

But outfit confirms there's no increase in training contracts

Jan 10 2018 11:25am

The most impressive law firm offices — 2018 edition

Where spectacular views and top-notch facilities are part and parcel

Jan 10 2018 9:34am

Solicitor hit with £54,000 costs bill after failing to overturn £2,000 SRA fine

Family lawyer behind 'incompetent idiot' emails had ‘lost perspective’, tribunal says

Jan 9 2018 1:40pm

How working as a paralegal helped me secure a training contract

Curiosity to really understand the firm, and longstanding interest in business, propelled Nick Little to TC success at Irwin Mitchell

Jan 9 2018 12:46pm

Technology: Disrupting the law and lawyers — with Travers Smith

Apply to attend Legal Cheek's latest event

Jan 5 2018 1:52pm

Young solicitor who faked documents to hide mistake is struck off

She’d only been qualified for three years

Jan 5 2018 11:23am

I am worried STEM students will scupper my training contract chances

Do City firms still want law graduates?

Jan 4 2018 2:33pm

The law firms with the best work/life balance — 2018 edition

Good money plus good hours is a winning combination

Jan 4 2018 9:34am