Tag: Solicitors

Should City lawyers subsidise their less high-earning boyfriends and girlfriends?
A question facing lots of rookie solicitors as they move in with their other halves, whose salaries are often much lower

From paralegal to lawyer at a listed law firm
Gateley senior associate Zum Mohammed shares her career journey

Revealed: The most eco-friendly law firms 2022
With the race to net-zero in full swing, Legal Cheek’s exclusive Trainee and Junior Lawyer Survey reveals which firms score highest for eco-friendliness

Legal Cheek’s most read stories of 2021
Crazy working hours, lockdown blues, uni rankings, NFTs -- and of course the usual dose of lawyers behaving badly

Your ultimate guides to training contract and pupillage applications this festive period
Legal Cheek careers resources reveal inside line on over 100 law firms and 50 chambers, and contain key graduate recruitment deadlines

Revealed: The law firms with the best perks 2022
From on-site swimming pools to freebie tickets; which corporate law firms offer the best perks?

Revealed: The best law firms for peer support and partner approachability 2022
From rookies staying late for each other to partners always being available for a chat — which firms are the friendliest?

What went down at the Legal Cheek-ULaw Winter 2021 Virtual Vacation Scheme
Lawyers share insights into practice areas including ESG, finance, legal tech, gaming and media law

Fresh salary rises see Weil trainees become highest paid in the City
£60k in year one, £65k in year two

Browne Jacobson offers up to 10 extra TCs with March 2022 start dates in response to workload boom
Emergency recruitment spree 🚨

A round-up of the best Xmas trees across the legal profession
From law firm lobbies to historic Inns of Court 🎄

CMS and Simmons boost NQ lawyer salaries
£95k and £100k

Revealed: The best law firms for training and quality of work 2022
The results are in! Legal Cheek’s exclusive Trainee and Junior Lawyer Survey can reveal the law firms with the highest scores for training and quality of work

Biotech grad bags SQE1 scholarship for essay on ‘why STEM students make great lawyers’
Viktoria Dipla's £3k award covers cost of BARBRI course

Lawyers urged to donate corporate clobber to help job seekers
Blake Morgan teams up with Working Wardrobe Project to help people looking for employment in South Wales

Slaughter and May joins magic circle rivals in upping NQ pay to £107.5k
Third rise this year

Clifford Chance to be led by lawyer outside UK for first time
Milan-based Charles Adams elected magic circle giant's next global managing partner

Akin Gump announces big bonuses for London lawyers
Up to £104k in year-end and one-time special rewards

BPP to offer free SQE and bar ‘bridge courses’
Tie-up with eight universities

Bakers joins City salary war with £105k rate for NQs
Extra cash for trainees too

Online law school launches £7k LLM with SQE prep
College of Legal Practice secures degree awarding powers