Tag: Solicitors

Video: Litigation Commercial Awareness Question Time — with Hardwicke and RPC

Top barristers and solicitors answer students' questions about legal and finance stories in the news

Mar 22 2016 12:00pm

Simmons & Simmons keeps seven out of nine new qualifiers

Firm declines to comment on how many trainees started this round's qualification process

Mar 21 2016 2:44pm

Sheffield bids to wrestle corporate law northshoring crown from Manchester

Council big wigs offer cash incentives to get a piece of the outsourcing action

Mar 21 2016 1:36pm

Supreme Court shatters law geeks’ wedding dreams

Highest court in the land opens its doors to private hire events -- but has no licence for couples to tie the knot

Mar 21 2016 1:01pm

Junior criminal lawyer pleads GUILTY to conspiracy to supply cocaine

Barrister turned solicitor Omar Khan was charged in December 2015 and spent Christmas behind bars

Mar 21 2016 10:04am

Top lawyers draw upon ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ to give students careers advice

It seems the inspirational drag queen has some tips for budding solicitors and barristers

Mar 18 2016 12:56pm

‘Law student’ who claimed to be at BPP pleads guilty to Christmas Eve murder

Carl Langdell said he was doing GDL at BPP, but law school denies all knowledge of him

Mar 18 2016 11:09am

Freshfields posts 82% trainee retention rate rounding off mixed bag for magic circle

Elsewhere in the City, Reed Smith posts disappointing 58% result while Weil Gotshal & Manges scores perfect 100%

Mar 18 2016 10:51am

First ever City law firm business school trains up 250 junior lawyers to advise start-ups

Programme is part of wider corporate law drive to up-skill trainees

Mar 18 2016 10:00am

How do you play a networking event?

The debatable usefulness of small talk over a glass of wine

Mar 17 2016 2:25pm

Exclusive legal profession poll: 75% want to stay in EU

Survey of 1,000 lawyers and law students shows massive opposition to Brexit

Mar 17 2016 12:14pm

Apprentices set to go head-to-head with first year law students for top solicitor jobs

LLBers, beware of hotshot school-leavers with much more experience than you

Mar 17 2016 9:26am

How to join the magic circle

ULaw visiting professor Simon Firth explains what his firm, Linklaters, looks for in prospective trainees

Mar 15 2016 12:32pm

Staggering 99.9% conviction rate in China revealed

An ode to Chinese defence lawyers

Mar 14 2016 3:31pm

Linklaters keeps hold of 45 out of 54 qualifying trainees

Retention rate of 83% for offerer of most training contracts in the City

Mar 14 2016 12:26pm

Brexit would trigger exodus of UK lawyers to re-qualify in Ireland, say experts

It'd be the only way for British solicitors and barristers to do anything EU law-related at a decent level

Mar 14 2016 11:19am

Baker & McKenzie boosts newly qualified lawyer pay to £70,000

First year trainees will also walk away with £3,500 extra

Mar 14 2016 9:53am