Tag: Solicitors
Pinsent Masons promotes eight women to partner as Linklaters considers female boss
Who run the world? Girls
Sidley Austin pays £100,000 each to seven Kirkland & Ellis associates as signing-on fee
City law juniors haul in Premier League footballer-level money
King & Wood Mallesons and Eversheds reveal contrasting trainee retention performances
Meanwhile, Simmons & Simmons accused of retention figure manipulation
Who’s to blame when an April Fool goes wrong?
All fun and games until someone loses an eye
Aspiring solicitor’s training contract deemed worthless after she was left unsupervised for 15 months
Supervisor took maternity leave without arranging appropriate support
Law Society’s Chancery Lane HQ to become Europe’s largest Nando’s
Neo-Georgian building in heart of legal London purchased by chicken giant for undisclosed fee
Bigshot megafirm partner banned from UK legal practice after billing clients for luxury family holidays
Top lawyer also used firm's cash to pay off debts he owed relating to spin-off venture
DLA Piper associate struck off for concealing strike out
Young real estate associate at international giant fabricated court documents
Hogan versus Gawker: Free speech can be costly
Gawker has been ordered to pay an astonishing $140 million in cumulative damages to the former US wrestling icon
The legal sector boom: Lawyers responsible for 8,000 additional jobs
But what are they, exactly?
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
Commemorative toilet roll tells of female struggle to enter legal profession due to lack of toilet facilities
And you can own one for just £100...
Team of four students from UCL, LSE, Leicester and Portsmouth crowned the most commercially aware wannabe lawyers in Britain
Quartet snatch win in prestigious competition
Simmons & Simmons keeps seven out of nine new qualifiers
Firm declines to comment on how many trainees started this round's qualification process
Sheffield bids to wrestle corporate law northshoring crown from Manchester
Council big wigs offer cash incentives to get a piece of the outsourcing action
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
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
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
‘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
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%