Tag: Solicitors
Two more City firms adopt Lord Neuberger-backed contextual graduate recruitment method
Withers and RPC the latest City firms to take into account economic background and personal circumstances of wannabe lawyers
Research: 74% of lawyers will push workplace boundaries at Christmas party
Snogging, sex and heavy boozing -- it's festive season for law firms
Gove scraps Grayling’s Criminal Courts Charge
Lord Chancellor's move gets thumbs-up from lawyers
Judge Rinder speaks out against swingeing legal aid cuts
A lawyer that doesn’t like Grayling? Who'd have thought it?
Top Linklaters’ lawyer takes home £3.2 million a year — 76 times as much as trainee
Top earner at magic circle outfit sees 33% pay boost
Supreme Court takes down Marks & Spencer in a momentous case set to impact LLB-ers
Sorry law students -- even more land law to learn
Clyde & Co plans radical overhaul of diversity programme
City firm wants to shake off 'old boys club' reputation but Charlotte Proudman isn't convinced
‘Seeking a job outside law ironically put me on the path to qualifying as a lawyer’
Unable to secure a training contract during the financial crisis, LPC graduate Priya Krishan landed an associate role at JP Morgan in London -- and qualified as a New York lawyer
Yorkshire solicitor struck off after charging magic circle rates
£750-an-hour for executing a will
Not being yourself wastes valuable energy
After having children, Hogan Lovells partner Elaine Penrose decided to be completely open about her sexuality at work -- including with clients
Science is harder than law, says Lord Neuberger
Head of Supreme Court reveals that he became a barrister after failing to cut it as a chemist
Criminology student troll commits career suicide as he is exposed by top QC
But leading solicitor backs student's right to tell anti-Semitic gags
Banking sector receives twice as many graduate applications as law
But being a solicitor pays more
Slater & Gordon’s stock price plummets by over 50% as George Osborne aims to end compensation culture
This may be why few law firms are listed on the stock market
Addleshaw Goddard set to merge with Maclay Murray & Spens to create Anglo-Scottish megafirm
Combined firm could become one of the biggest sources of training contracts in the UK
Job losses, falling profits and rising debt for Walkie Talkie law firm
DWF has a great London office and a big overdraft
Katie Hopkins seems to be styling herself as a legal commentator
Reality TV star loves writing about the law in her mad Mail Online columns
Linklaters moves to distance itself from charity — a year after it was placed under investigation
Exclusive: Magic circle firm's logo removed from Human Aid's website and name deleted from sponsorship page
‘I want to be a lawyer — but not a corporate lawyer: is there hope for me?’
The message from law fairs is that it's City law or bust
Top lawyers are ten times more likely to be privately educated than anyone else
The legal profession just can’t seem to shake its ‘old boys’ club’ reputation -- for good reason