Tag: Solicitors
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%
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
How do you play a networking event?
The debatable usefulness of small talk over a glass of wine
Exclusive legal profession poll: 75% want to stay in EU
Survey of 1,000 lawyers and law students shows massive opposition to Brexit
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
How to join the magic circle
ULaw visiting professor Simon Firth explains what his firm, Linklaters, looks for in prospective trainees
Brexit or Bremain? Take the Legal Cheek poll
In or out?
Staggering 99.9% conviction rate in China revealed
An ode to Chinese defence lawyers
Linklaters keeps hold of 45 out of 54 qualifying trainees
Retention rate of 83% for offerer of most training contracts in the City
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
Baker & McKenzie boosts newly qualified lawyer pay to £70,000
First year trainees will also walk away with £3,500 extra
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
Negative responses to solicitor super-exam consultation to see proposal modified
There may be life in the old LPC yet
Linklaters hikes pay to US firm levels — with new qualifiers on up to £91k
Firm leapfrogs magic circle rivals
Once they were lawyers… Marcel Proust
The great French writer had a law degree -- and that’s not all
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