Tag: Solicitors

The euphemisms that keep the deals moving

Silk who defended the Krays also aggrieved by modern law firm tendency to "tie papers with rubber bands instead of tape"

English firm now paying close to US levels for rookies -- but bonuses are slashed

The best from below the line

Survey of City and regional commercial firms reveals young solicitors still aspire to the big money

Row with your client? Insult the size of his manhood and then figuratively slap him in face with a silk glove

Durham grad speaks to Legal Cheek about battle to land a training contract -- or perhaps even a pupillage

Exclusive: Transatlantic player overtakes some big names in the salary league tables

Herbert Smith Freehills and Travers Smith join three magic circle players in mentoring and advice scheme

A leading political thinker-cum-Anglican theologian reckons the legal profession should spend up to 10% of time on pro bono

As the summer stints draw to a close, Legal Cheek asks the pivotal question: did anyone do any legal work?

Will lawyers take a leaf from book of French revolutionaries on Bastille Day?

Office sub-let deal to leading German bank sparks fears of poolside culture clash

London office of US giant hangs onto all qualifiers; Anglo-German firm keeps 87%

Weird rituals were enacted at yesterday’s annual meeting of the body that represents solicitors

As London’s Underground strike takes hold, Legal Cheek asks junior lawyers: fancy shouting mind the gap?

Your Honour, are you OK?

A former high street law firm practitioner from Wales makes British armed forces history

Ok, so they’re in unfashionable Toronto and not NYC, but the airbrushed Henein Hutchison mob has nailed the look just in time for broadcast of series five

Glitzy marketing bid bound to raise temperatures across profession

Bank refuses to clarify status staff sacked for recreating an Isis-style beheading -- but press reports claimed they had a legal function