Tag: Solicitors

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

Top law firm partner accused of having trainees edit his celebrity-style Wikipedia page

Pennington Manches "not aware" of rookies being asked to create material to bolster solicitor's profile

Mar 11 2016 1:31pm

Once they were lawyers… Marcel Proust

The great French writer had a law degree -- and that’s not all

Mar 10 2016 3:03pm

FinTech: The hot new practice area primed for young lawyers to make their mark

Norton Rose Fulbright's Victoria Birch is one of the pioneers

Mar 10 2016 1:15pm

5 reasons you should become a law firm campus ambassador

And it's not just the guaranteed vac scheme interview

Mar 9 2016 11:46am

Gove ditches plan to have City lawyers subsidise courts

City tax was floated to replace cash generated from the controversial court charge ditched last year

Mar 9 2016 11:10am

Cheeky tenants add unexpected birthday cake contract clause into their lease

Was it the work of sneaky law students?

Mar 9 2016 10:05am

Video: ‘Oh bollocks!’ MP’s outburst over suggestion that Brexit will cost the legal services market £1.7 billion

Former justice minister Jonathan Djanogly's suggestion didn't go down well with one MP

Mar 8 2016 5:23pm