Tag: Solicitors

Get out there and meet lawyers, there is no better preparation

Hogan Lovells partner Chris Hutton recalls how a teacher who "pushed us to apply to places we had never dreamed of applying to" helped put him on the right track

Jun 23 2017 12:05pm

Eversheds Sutherland launches new legal service for start-ups thanks to one of its trainees

'ES Disrupt': international outfit taps into London's buoyant entrepreneur scene

Jun 22 2017 1:06pm

Worry more about AI going wrong, says Slaughter and May

Magic circle giant highlights pitfalls of new technology

Jun 22 2017 9:03am

US outfit Goodwin Procter launches London training contract schemes

News follows firm’s involvement in KWM trainee rescue mission

Jun 21 2017 3:50pm

From King’s College London law student to Ashurst partner

As Ashurst's training contract deadline looms, we talk to banking law specialist Nick Wong about his career to date

Jun 21 2017 2:03pm

City law firms dominate first ever social mobility employer index

MoJ and Inner Temple also recognised for their endeavours to help disadvantaged young people

Jun 21 2017 12:18pm

Why I regret my magic circle training contract

Career mistakes: Legal Cheek meets a soon-to-be NQ, a paralegal and an LPC student

Jun 20 2017 10:04am

Why lawyers need to be good listeners

Ahead of Legal Cheek and Macfarlanes' deal-themed Commercial Awareness Question Time next week, partner Nicholas Barclay offers future solicitors some advice

Jun 16 2017 11:44am

Boston bolt-on: Hogan Lovells to swallow up US law firm Collora

Combination to go live on 1 September

Jun 16 2017 10:40am

Travers Smith launches mentor scheme to empower LGBT+ students

Corporate law firm tackles the big dilemma of coming out at work

Jun 16 2017 10:15am

SRA moots paying student guinea pigs to sit pilot super-exam

Want to get paid to take the SQE?

Jun 15 2017 1:23pm

Event: How to make it as a City lawyer

Solicitors from Herbert Smith Freehills, Hogan Lovells and Mayer Brown join experts from BPP University Law School, NOTICED and PRIME to help prep students -- for free -- ahead of the training contract application deadline

Jun 15 2017 10:51am

Solicitor super-exam WILL change how big City law firms hire trainees, insists SRA boss

Comments come in response to suggestion by Hogan Lovells chief that scrapping LPC may not have major impact

Jun 14 2017 9:28am

Solicitor super-exam: Students able to take LPC and GDL into the 2030s

Exclusive: Regulator backs ‘lengthy transition period’, as lawyers speculate advocacy’s place on SQE

Jun 13 2017 2:04pm

Reshuffle: Ex-City lawyer who claimed foodbank users have ‘cash flow problems’ returns to the MoJ

Dominic Raab MP made a Justice Minister, as fellow commercial solicitor made Work and Pensions Secretary

Jun 13 2017 11:51am

The standard of proof in solicitor AND barrister disciplinary hearings should be lowered, says SRA

Days after Leigh Day lawyers cleared on 19 misconduct charges

Jun 13 2017 11:00am

Police conducting drugs investigation search Herbert Smith Freehills’ Belfast office

Number of items taken from low cost support hub for further examination

Jun 13 2017 9:09am