Tag: Solicitors
Lawyer calls client a ‘small penis as*hole’ — then challenges him to a duel over billing dispute
Row with your client? Insult the size of his manhood and then figuratively slap him in face with a silk glove
Uni of Law LPC student bids to win Miss England title before qualifying as a lawyer
Durham grad speaks to Legal Cheek about battle to land a training contract -- or perhaps even a pupillage
Norton Rose Fulbright boosts junior lawyer pay to match magic circle competition
Exclusive: Transatlantic player overtakes some big names in the salary league tables
Two City firms back latest bid to ease law firm recruitment path for socially underprivileged
Herbert Smith Freehills and Travers Smith join three magic circle players in mentoring and advice scheme
Oi lawyers — do more free work, demands think tank
A leading political thinker-cum-Anglican theologian reckons the legal profession should spend up to 10% of time on pro bono
Vac schemes: students do everything but legal work
As the summer stints draw to a close, Legal Cheek asks the pivotal question: did anyone do any legal work?
Signs of despair as criminal bar strike ballot moves to climax
Will lawyers take a leaf from book of French revolutionaries on Bastille Day?
Clifford Chance ponders battery farm lawyers
Office sub-let deal to leading German bank sparks fears of poolside culture clash
Jones Day and Taylor Wessing continue strong autumn retention trend for City firms
London office of US giant hangs onto all qualifiers; Anglo-German firm keeps 87%
Meet the traditional Law Society man on steps — and the garrotted wife
Weird rituals were enacted at yesterday’s annual meeting of the body that represents solicitors
Top regional law firms that pay newly qualified lawyers less than Tube drivers
As London’s Underground strike takes hold, Legal Cheek asks junior lawyers: fancy shouting mind the gap?
A young advocate’s guide to the courtroom, featuring Michael Jackson’s ‘Smooth Criminal’
Your Honour, are you OK?
Solicitor promoted to highest-ranking female officer in army
A former high street law firm practitioner from Wales makes British armed forces history
Is this the real ‘Suits’ law firm?
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
Bar launches direct access website to lure punters away from solicitors
Glitzy marketing bid bound to raise temperatures across profession
Mystery surrounds identity of HSBC ‘legal team’ involved in mock-execution video
Bank refuses to clarify status staff sacked for recreating an Isis-style beheading -- but press reports claimed they had a legal function
Hogan Lovells boosts autumn retention of newbies to 79%
The Anglo-US firm has held on to 23 of 29 autumn qualifiers
Leaked memo from strikebreaker law firm says it’s too late to stop the cuts
Document underlines difficulty profession faces in presenting united front
Struck off Ince & Co partner exits jail and launches a ‘legal services’ business
Regulators silent so far as Andrew Iyer’s new business looks and feels a lot like a law firm -- but he’s careful in the fine print to say it isn’t
Herbert Smith Freehills takes on the magic circle as pay rise trend continues
Global City of London firm boosts junior level pay across the board with trainees now taking home £42,000
Garden Court Chambers barrister named as young legal aid lawyer of the year
Five-year-call housing specialist Connor Johnston joins Duggan family solicitor on podium along with 11 others at gala celebration