Tag: Solicitors
Family lawyers feel the strain as number of care cases skyrocket
More and more care applications are being made, meaning more and more work for family lawyers
Silk day: Boris takes Brexit break to celebrate wife’s QC appointment
Social media awash with full bottomed wigs and silver buckled shoes
Legal education reform proposals are an opportunity as well as a risk — and students must have a voice
King & Wood Mallesons' David Ball and Caroline Sarson want to safeguard quality and boost diversity while improving the scope of assessment
Does The Sun’s links to ‘kufr’ lawyer’s firm make it ‘extremist’?
Being tainted by association has its limits
The tabloid newspaper reporting of the Supreme Court joint enterprise ruling is really, really bad
Misguided media riles lawyers
Lawyers with brilliant names you just couldn’t make up
From Cinderela and beyond
Oxbridge students shun regional law firms
Oxford and Cambridge graduates make up less than 5% of trainees outside London
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
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
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
Macfarlanes continues bumper retention season posting perfect 100% spring score
All six Macfarlanes qualifiers have committed their future to the "silver circle" outfit
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
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
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
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
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
Five things you need to know before applying for a first year work experience scheme
If you are rejected, life is not over
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
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
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