Tag: Solicitors

And the winners of the Legal Cheek Awards are…

Osborne Clarke and Baker McKenzie each bag brace as Burges Salmon scoops overall award and Slaughter and May wins ‘Most Admired’

Mar 17 2017 12:54pm

‘Ambulance chasing’ lawyer Phil Shiner declared bankrupt, weeks after he sold house to Middlesex University law lecturer daughter

Bethany Shiner and sister Leisha both used to work for their dad’s now defunct law firm

Mar 17 2017 11:29am

Linklaters completes magic circle’s spring retention season with solid 86% result

The outfit's new associates will be based in London, Hong Kong and Dubai

Mar 16 2017 1:13pm

Norton Rose Fulbright unveils spring retention rate of 83%

Twenty trainees have accepted full-time associate roles at the global giant

Mar 16 2017 10:06am

Osborne Clarke posts perfect 100% spring retention score

All six March qualifiers have committed their future to the international firm

Mar 15 2017 3:48pm

‘F*CK LAWYERS!’: Hill Dickinson’s office daubed with rude graffiti

International outfit's HQ targeted by vandals

Mar 15 2017 2:38pm

Revealed: The shortlist for the Trainee and Junior Lawyer Firm of the Year 2017

Ahead of the Legal Cheek Awards tomorrow evening in London, the final shortlist is unveiled

Mar 15 2017 9:03am

Scanning a defendant’s brain can establish mens rea, claim neuroscientists

Will the results be used in the courtroom?

Mar 14 2017 12:31pm

Beyond the Dragons’ Den: What lawyers bring to a fintech venture

Travers Smith solicitor Alex Edmiston provides a brief biography of a start-up

Mar 14 2017 11:00am

An open letter to future lawyers, from a future lawyer

A trainee at a top City outfit has something she wants to share

Mar 14 2017 9:07am

‘There is no incentive for junior lawyers to qualify into criminal law’, says Junior Lawyers Division

And there will be even less incentive after MoJ pay reforms

Mar 13 2017 2:23pm

Law firm partner’s career hangs in the balance after High Court headbutt attack on EastEnders star’s father

Property law specialist Philip Saunders handed an 18-month suspended sentence

Mar 13 2017 11:10am

Legal Cheek talks… ‘moaning millennials’

This week a trainee at a top City firm went public with her mortgage woes, but was she justified in doing so?

Mar 10 2017 4:20pm

Freshfields unveils 84% spring retention score

Magic circle outfit keeps 31 of its 37 NQs

Mar 10 2017 3:43pm

The army’s loss is the law’s gain

Marisa Hornabrook is looking forward to her legal life with Burges Salmon -- and it all began with an Insight Day more than three years ago

Mar 10 2017 11:01am

Pants on fire: Lawyer’s trousers burst into flames while defending client accused of arson

Stephen Gutierrez blamed the crotch combustion on a faulty e-cigarette battery

Mar 10 2017 10:18am

Olswang partner who completed training contract AND pupillage within a year of each other lands top legal role at Facebook

Anna Caddick will head up the social media giant's regulatory and litigation team

Mar 9 2017 12:44pm

Now even City lawyers can’t afford to get onto the London property ladder

A training contract is not always enough to get you a mortgage

Mar 9 2017 9:58am