Tag: Solicitors

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May 2 2017 1:56pm

CMS Cameron McKenna, Nabarro and Olswang triple merger goes live

New global outfit boasts 1,000 partners and 5,000 lawyers

May 2 2017 10:53am

Language of the law decoded: The litigation edition

The revered Wigapedia returns to Legal Cheek for his 2017 jargon buster

May 2 2017 8:58am

Eversheds Sutherland keeps all 12 spring NQs

As international outfit unveils post-merger partner promotions

Apr 28 2017 2:18pm

Sussex University law grad with a ‘passion for pro bono’ becomes BPP’s first ever trainee solicitor

News revealed in same week as annual student pro bono awards

Apr 28 2017 11:04am

Burges Salmon posts perfect 100% retention score

All 28 newbies have committed their future to the Bristol-based outfit

Apr 28 2017 9:08am

Revealed: how close firms are to reaching their gender diversity targets

Some are doing well -- next stop equality?

Apr 27 2017 9:05am

Legal Cheek talks… how will the new solicitor super-exam affect you?

Your questions answered, as we wave goodbye to the LPC and GDL

Apr 26 2017 3:07pm

Reed Smith offers flexi-working option to all London lawyers

But trainees are likely to miss out

Apr 26 2017 11:51am

Property lawyer fined £10,000 for renting out house with ‘kitchen in the garden shed’

She told the court a tenant built the illegal extension without her knowledge

Apr 25 2017 1:44pm

It’s official: The LPC and GDL are being scrapped

Solicitor super-exam will replace traditional routes to qualification as soon as September 2020

Apr 25 2017 11:30am

Clifford Chance to fund community law graduate scheme likened to Teach First

Youth advocates will help protect the legal rights of vulnerable children

Apr 24 2017 10:23am

Slater and Gordon solicitor, 31, becomes youngest coroner in England and Wales

Leeds University graduate reaches judicial office way ahead of schedule

Apr 24 2017 9:14am

Law Society tells solicitors to ‘channel their inner Judge Dredd’ – immediately backfires

'You do realise he is an executioner for a totalitarian fascist regime?'

Apr 21 2017 9:57am

Allen & Overy at back-end of gender diversity league table as magic circle giant reveals just 8% of its new partners are female

On the other hand, Pinsents and Mishcon have made up 60%+ female partners

Apr 21 2017 9:09am

City University BPTC grad who stole cash from colleagues’ bags BARRED from legal profession

Mahnoor Choudhury was working as a paralegal at the time

Apr 20 2017 11:05am

Pay trainees and NQs less; pay mid-level associates more, argues influential commentator

Rookie lawyer remuneration in London may have reached unsustainable levels

Apr 20 2017 9:02am

Clifford Chance lawyer set to become 173rd president of the Law Society

Litigation specialist Simon Davis to take over top spot in 2019

Apr 19 2017 12:25pm