Tag: Solicitors

Two already huge London megalaw firms are set to get even bigger

Dentons and Eversheds seek to reach Coca-Cola and Pepsi levels of ubiquity

Nov 4 2015 9:39am

Chelsea FC-mad corporate lawyer tells Liverpool fans to ‘crawl back to your horrible Merseyside home’

Partner at London office of US firm latest to be caught out by YouTube and Twitter

Nov 3 2015 3:13pm

City lawyers can’t agree if they should fill the legal aid gap

National Pro Bono week kicks off with a disagreement about Justice Secretary Michael Gove's grand plan

Nov 3 2015 10:14am

There is a new contender for the worst attempt at a fraudulent personal injury claim ever

Police release footage of fake slip that saw man jailed for fraud

Nov 2 2015 3:08pm

Ethnic minority City lawyers still under-represented at the top

Only a handful of internationalist firms reflect diversity of the general UK population

Nov 2 2015 10:07am

The unintentionally positive effects of the Witchcraft Act are still being felt today

Laws against witchcraft were pivotal in the creation of modern concepts of evidence; they also gave women a voice in court as witnesses

Oct 30 2015 10:00am

Not accepting students with 2:2s is ‘discriminatory’, argues top legal academic

Dr Steven Vaughan says degree class doesn’t tell the whole story

Oct 30 2015 9:09am

City law firm trainee pukes on senior colleagues at awards ceremony

Stephenson Harwood rookie "extremely embarrassed" after vomiting on three associates

Oct 30 2015 8:33am

Lawyers: a car park comparison

Image captures difference between haves and have-nots in corporate law

Oct 29 2015 5:28pm

Top Blackstone Chambers QC rejects Oxford prof’s claim that technology will destroy legal profession

Lawyers survived email and Twitter -- and they'll survive everything else, predicts David Pannick QC

Oct 29 2015 1:59pm

Blogging ex-judge gives exclusive insight into one of most influential cases of past 150 years

Former Court of Appeal man reveals what it was like to decide Re A (conjoined twins)

Oct 29 2015 12:24pm

Humans star Gemma Chan reveals that she nearly joined Slaughter and May

Oxford law graduate did vac scheme at magic circle firm

Oct 29 2015 11:27am

The top 15 law fair freebies of 2015

The stash creating the biggest stir on campus

Oct 29 2015 9:51am

Halloween is coming: Witch takes ‘world’s best-known warlock’ to court over harassment claims

Witches versus warlocks -- but who will triumph in court?

Oct 28 2015 3:05pm

New Legally Blonde film could feature Elle Woods as a Supreme Court judge

Reese Witherspoon has serious ambitions for her character

Oct 28 2015 10:41am

Supreme Court hears joint enterprise case that could shake up criminal law syllabuses

Key legal principle could be overhauled -- and the whole process is being charted live via video and social media

Oct 28 2015 9:53am

Author of criminal law bible profiled in Mail Online as relationship guru

Jonathan Herring -- of ‘Criminal Law: Texts, Cases and Materials’ fame -- has diversified

Oct 27 2015 2:25pm

Junior corporate solicitor quits law to become boxing promoter

Former CMS Cameron McKenna legacy firm man, 29, to use legal skills to emulate Don King

Oct 27 2015 12:34pm

Most Lists 2016: There are lots of junior women solicitors, but everywhere else in legal profession is dominated by men

Being a partner, a QC or even a rookie barrister is largely a man's game

Oct 27 2015 9:10am

Charlotte Proudman blames uni drinking societies for lack of women lawyers

High profile junior barrister says boozey bonding blocks female influence -- but figures suggest other causes may be to blame

Oct 26 2015 3:49pm