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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

Experience: I did a secondment at a global media company during my City training contract

Reed Smith trainee Roch Glowacki reflects on what he learned during six-months at firm’s client

Jun 12 2017 2:06pm

Lawyers rush to defend Leigh Day after solicitors cleared of 19 misconduct charges

One said it was ‘a shameful political witchhunt’

Jun 12 2017 12:49pm

The first ever legal careers network for STEM students who want to become lawyers has been launched

STEM Future Lawyers will bring together top law firms and the best science, technology, engineering and maths students

Jun 12 2017 9:22am

Iraq torture case: Leigh Day cleared of ALL misconduct following longest solicitor disciplinary tribunal in history

Two partners and a junior solicitor faced charges including pursuing false claims against British troops

Jun 9 2017 4:55pm

Slaughter and May freezes lawyer pay as UK hit by hung parliament uncertainty

But salaries will remain under review, says elite magic circle outfit

Jun 9 2017 11:37am

RPC lawyer crowned British martial arts champion

Finance solicitor by day, Jiu-Jitsu pro by night

Jun 8 2017 2:08pm