Tag: Solicitors
How Sticklers For The Norm Could Find Themselves Out Of Luck In The Training Contract Hunt
Earlier this year I got a training contract at a small, reputable firm in Buckinghamshire...
Edicts From The Ivory Tower: The Troubling Disconnect Between The SRA’s ‘Sophisticated’ Decision-Makers And Its ‘Over-Zealous’ Prosecutor Foot-Soldiers
A “wholly unjustified and unreasonable” decision to prosecute a small law firm for supposed failure...
DLA Piper Trainee Solicitor Convicted Of Making Homophobic Remarks And Attacking Two Students
A second-year trainee at the Edinburgh office of DLA Piper has been found guilty of...
Inn The Know: Gossip That’s Too Scurrilous To Publish In Full, But Too Juicy To Waste
Editorial note: welcome to Legal Cheek’s new gossip column. It’ll run every time we get...
Chris Grayling Appointment: Top Ten Horrified Reactions
News of the first non-lawyer appointment to the role of Lord Chancellor since the Archbishop...
Chakrabarti Household’s Main Breadwinner Upgrades To The Magic Circle
One of the downsides of making loads of money as a top City lawyer is...
Reality TV Star Gabilicious Swaps Made In Chelsea For London Law Firm
To date, one of the great tragedies of E4 reality show Made In Chelsea is...
Woman Killed By Falling Window Frame In Mayfair Was Keystone Law Solicitor Amanda Telfer
On Thursday, a woman was crushed to death by a falling window frame in Hanover...
Career May Be Over For City Lawyer Who Groped Woman On National Express Coach As He’s Put On Sex Offenders Register
Hugh Wotherspoon, the solicitor found guilty last month of groping a woman on the Edinburgh-London...
British Law Firm* Is Obama’s Third Highest Campaign Funder
None of the ‘serious’ legal publications have reported the news that DLA Piper is the...
Meet The Solicitors With Second Jobs As Writers For Essay Companies That Target Students
Yesterday, we brought you news of an essay-writing company that pays LPC and BPTC graduates...
What Is It With Law Graduates And The Urge To Steal From John Lewis?
An LPC graduate has admitted stealing from John Lewis via a fake refund scam, just...
How To Face Down Dirty Tactics During a Vac Scheme
Over the weekend, ‘The Budding Lawyer’ wrote of the dirty tactics he had fallen victim...
Welcome To The ‘Envy Economy’ Of City Law Firms
I spend my days in the office listening to management speak. When I’m not going...
Leap To The Other Side: Camden New Journal Music Editor On How She’s Juggling Journalism And Law
For the past two years I have been leading a double life – part music...
Is It OK For Solicitors To Ask Their Secretaries To Cancel The Milk For Them?
Hearing trainee solicitors talk about “their secretary” always makes me cringe. Invariably it’s done in...
#RoundMyKitchenTable: Understanding How Law Firms Think About A-Levels
With many law firms and barristers’ chambers using strict minimum A-level requirements to filter wannabes,...
How To Land a PAID Paralegal Position And Qualify As a Solicitor Without Drowning In Debt
Paralegal Tony, a part-time LPC student and paralegal at a City law firm, says that...
Did Freshfields’ Olympics Sponsorship Come Out Of The Pro Bono Budget?
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s sponsorship of the Olympics cost it £10 million. The firm’s most recent...
Jags And Unpaid Interns: The Two Faces Of Fly-On-The-Wall Documentary Law Firm Tuckers
‘The Briefs’, the two-part ITV criminal law firm documentary which concluded last night, sparked rage...