Tag: Solicitors

Regulation that plagued family lawyers declared ‘invalid’ by Court of Appeal

Chris Grayling's changes to rules on domestic abuse sufferers getting legal aid don't stand up to scrutiny

Feb 18 2016 2:48pm

Criminal law syllabuses to get makeover as Supreme Court gives landmark joint enterprise judgment

Felicity Gerry QC and Adam Wagner victorious as court changes the law

Feb 18 2016 12:02pm

Silver circle takes on the magic circle as Macfarlanes boosts junior lawyer pay to £70,000

Single-office City firm chucks an extra £5,000 at its newly qualified lawyers

Feb 18 2016 8:51am

Macfarlanes continues bumper retention season posting perfect 100% spring score

All six Macfarlanes qualifiers have committed their future to the "silver circle" outfit

Feb 17 2016 12:23pm

Addleshaw Goddard and Maclay Murray & Spens cease merger talks

Merger mania: Olswang eyeing up Bird & Bird and Simmons & Simmons, meanwhile Berwin Leighton Paisner and Greenberg Traurig in talks

Feb 17 2016 10:46am

The solicitors that took their chances on publishing and cake making — without giving up their legal careers

Legal Cheek meets the lawyers that bucked the trend and started up their own businesses

Feb 17 2016 9:05am

Solicitor super-exam could ‘devalue’ and ‘dumb down’ the law

Legal establishment comes out against plan to scrap LPC and open firms to non-graduates

Feb 16 2016 3:49pm

Impressive spring retention season continues as Osborne Clarke keeps on all its trainees

Seven out of seven March qualifiers have committed their future to the international firm

Feb 16 2016 1:04pm

Tax City lawyers to help the legal aid crisis, says founder of top legal aid firm

Human rights solicitor defends Michael Gove's legal levy idea

Feb 16 2016 11:53am

1,000-year-old tradition of recording laws on goat and calf skin hangs in balance

Peers say scrap tradition in favour of £80,000 a year savings

Feb 16 2016 9:21am

Simons, Muirhead & Burton partner embarrassed as ‘kufr’ video surfaces on YouTube

Footage from 1997 shows London lawyer speaking at extremist group rally in Trafalgar Square

Feb 15 2016 1:00pm

Why City law firms don’t need to keep in touch with work experience students

If they want to build ties, students should show some initiative and send an email

Feb 15 2016 9:01am

Beyond corporate law: how to become a serious injury lawyer

Legal Cheek and Fletchers team up to hold careers advice session for students with leading solicitors and barristers

Feb 14 2016 10:05am

Top City law firms criticised for failing to stay in touch with social mobility work experience students

Two-thirds of PRIME students had no further contact with their allocated firm

Feb 12 2016 3:56pm

Revealed: the areas of the country where trainee solicitors are paid the least

South West is best -- avoid the rest, apart from the City

Feb 12 2016 12:10pm

15 great photos of dogs dressed as lawyers

Dog lawyers is even more of a thing than cat lawyers

Feb 12 2016 10:34am

Senior lawyers slam ‘entitled’ millennial training contract hopefuls

But they admit that corporate law is a different beast to when they were growing up

Feb 12 2016 9:04am

Sacked Chelsea FC-mad corporate solicitor who branded Liverpool fans ‘scouse scum’ lands new job at City law firm

Lawyer was fired late last year after foul-mouthed football rant that swept YouTube

Feb 11 2016 4:43pm