Tag: Solicitors
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
Burges Salmon posts perfect 100% retention score
All 28 newbies have committed their future to the Bristol-based outfit
City law firms take nine spots in ‘Top 50 employers for women’ list
But financial services took ten
Revealed: how close firms are to reaching their gender diversity targets
Some are doing well -- next stop equality?
Legal Cheek talks… how will the new solicitor super-exam affect you?
Your questions answered, as we wave goodbye to the LPC and GDL
Reed Smith offers flexi-working option to all London lawyers
But trainees are likely to miss out
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
It’s official: The LPC and GDL are being scrapped
Solicitor super-exam will replace traditional routes to qualification as soon as September 2020
Clifford Chance to fund community law graduate scheme likened to Teach First
Youth advocates will help protect the legal rights of vulnerable children
Slater and Gordon solicitor, 31, becomes youngest coroner in England and Wales
Leeds University graduate reaches judicial office way ahead of schedule
Law Society tells solicitors to ‘channel their inner Judge Dredd’ – immediately backfires
'You do realise he is an executioner for a totalitarian fascist regime?'
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
Work less, earn less: Linklaters offers lawyers who want a life outside the office an ‘alternative career model’
The scheme is being piloted next month
City University BPTC grad who stole cash from colleagues’ bags BARRED from legal profession
Mahnoor Choudhury was working as a paralegal at the time
Pay trainees and NQs less; pay mid-level associates more, argues influential commentator
Rookie lawyer remuneration in London may have reached unsustainable levels
Clifford Chance lawyer set to become 173rd president of the Law Society
Litigation specialist Simon Davis to take over top spot in 2019
SDT publishes judgment that saw Clyde & Co hit with record £50,000 fine for money laundering and accounting rule breaches
Three partners also told to cough up £10,000 each
Fact or Fiction? The truth behind life in a City law firm
An anonymous lawyer offers some myth-busting advice on what he wishes he’d known when trying to break into the profession
Law students and rookie lawyers set to vote Lib Dem on 8 June
Legal Cheek snap election survey reveals Labour are out of favour
‘My teacher told me I was too soft to be a lawyer, now I’m a partner at a Knightsbridge firm’
Kevin Poulter tells us why his teacher's terse words encouraged him to pursue a career in law
Serial offender with 460 convictions smashes a law firm’s windows (again) in bid to be sent to prison
He said 'Champion! Thanks' when told he was going inside