Tag: Solicitors

City lawyers pour cold water over proposed apprenticeship qualifying route

Professional regulators’ plans described as potentially weakening entry standards by not even requiring GCSEs

Jun 17 2015 1:11pm

County court notice flags up the lack of love between barristers and solicitors

Segregation attempt triggers social media outrage from the larger branch of legal profession

Jun 17 2015 11:01am

Male solicitors are paid 38% more than women at commercial law firms

The sisters are taking a huge hammering worth thousands of pounds, according to research released yesterday

Jun 17 2015 9:32am

Exclusive: Reed Smith hands qualifying solicitors modest 1.5% pay rise

Trainees at Pittsburgh-headquartered practice do better, bagging 4% rise to take them to £38,500

Jun 16 2015 4:16pm

Smartphones have made overtime culture ‘endemic’ in law, finds research

Study released today blames phones and tablets for allowing partners to deprive associates of almost all sleep

Jun 16 2015 1:16pm

PM hit with social media flack for Magna Carta banalities

David Cameron’s 800th anniversary message from windswept Surrey car park wins little more than derision

Jun 15 2015 3:58pm

Podcast: Will Mayer Brown’s new earn-while-you-learn programme kill the training contract?

Project mastermind Danielle White on a new way into the City that could change everything

Jun 15 2015 3:05pm

Social Mobility Commission slams law firms for rich kids bias

Unofficial "poshness test" which champions "talent" keeps riff-raff out of legal profession

Jun 15 2015 11:53am

Exclusive Legal Cheek survey: 27% of lawyers take recreational drugs

And it’s not just a spliff round the barbecue — nearly 80% of users are keen on class-A gear

Jun 15 2015 12:00am

Canary Wharf law firm asks students to pay to do work experience

"You will be charged for us providing you this opportunity"

Jun 12 2015 10:56am

Media luvvie barristers in cat fight over alleged assault on London bus

Telly talking-head Sophia Cannon squares up against Doughty Street's Tunde Okewale -- with a phone hacking lawyer thrown into mix

Jun 11 2015 3:11pm

Yesterday the government made it pointless to qualify into a legal aid law firm

Ministry of Justice announced a second round of cuts to crime specialist law firms, taking total to more than 17% in last year

Jun 11 2015 12:48pm

Drug use among lawyers and law students: take the anonymous Legal Cheek survey

Do you take illegal -- or even "legal" -- drugs?

Jun 10 2015 11:41am

White & Case ups London NQ pay by 20% to a whopping £90k

But flash New Yorkers still £10k off lead pace set by US rivals in Square Mile

Jun 10 2015 11:11am

Only one in five Britons with a legal problem in next three years will go to a lawyer

Research from uber-regulator exposes huge lack in access to justice for ordinary public

Jun 10 2015 10:17am

Freshfields chucks £500 pay rise at trainees as top partners take home nearly £1.5m

Latest magic circle player to update pay gives newly-qualified solicitors a big fat nothing

Jun 9 2015 1:45pm

Sacked Apprentice lawyer wants you to fund her business

Lauren Riley turns to crowd funding to boost her client-communications app

Jun 9 2015 9:14am

Now there’s a mobile app that monitors and records human rights abuses

International lawyers group launches hi-tech tool in fight against tyrants and political fanatics

Jun 8 2015 3:45pm

Global firm CMS kicks off fourth year of state school student law degree bursary

Scheme is designed to encourage sixth-formers from “disadvantaged backgrounds” to have a punt at legal profession

Jun 8 2015 9:32am

Officialdom’s advice to lawyers: be nice to litigants in person

It’s not a good idea to swear at members of the public representing themselves

Jun 5 2015 11:37am

The hard route to becoming a City lawyer

King & Wood Mallesons solicitor Jeremy Consitt spent 15 years working his way up from the bottom

Jun 4 2015 1:15pm