Tag: Solicitors

UK law firm becomes first to sell legal advice as NFT
Crypto art 🤝 billable hours

49 tips candidates need to know before starting as a trainee solicitor
Courtesy of five trainees at Shearman & Sterling

SQE prep provider launches £50k social mobility scholarship fund
Law Training Centre's 'Access to Law' scheme enables candidates to complete part one prep course for just £950

City Consortium outlines SQE plan for future trainees
11-month programme includes super-exam prep and 'bespoke' top-up course

From airports in Croatia to railways in South Africa: the varied career of a global infrastructure lawyer
Pinsent Masons partner Sonal Shah contemplates her career journey to date and comments on how the infrastructure sector has fared throughout Covid-19

Macfarlanes launches ‘app scheme’
TC hopefuls can now get the 'trainee experience' via their phones

Revealed: The extreme working hours of big-paying US law firms in London
Some junior lawyers are finishing work after 11pm most nights

Navigating multi-billion pound deals and cross-border transactions as a City lawyer
Goodwin senior associate Raymond Fang tells Legal Cheek Careers about his day to day and the standout deals he's advised on

Why litigation is a game of chess
DWF senior associate Paul Maddock explains how his passion for board games helps in his day-to-day legal life

Dechert boosts trainee salaries to £50k and £55k
Rises of up to 11% 💷

‘The hurdles I overcame on my path to partnership’
Squire Patton Boggs partner Michelle Adams didn’t get the A-Level grades she’d hoped for and started training at the peak of the 2008 financial crisis; here she talks to Legal Cheek Careers about navigating choppy waters to get to where she is today

Law firm partner workloads increase as remote working makes it more difficult to delegate to juniors and trainees, survey finds
Many outfits report rise in chargeable hours, especially at senior levels

‘Own your experience as a law career changer’
Mayer Brown trainee Cheryl Stevart discusses her career journey from publishing to corporate law, ahead of her appearance at this week's virtual student event

NQ solicitor pay hits £140k at Cleary Gottlieb
Trainees handed substantial rises of £7,500

Ex-Eversheds trainee who sexually assaulted two sleeping students at house party jailed for 8 years
Attacked law student before groping another woman while she slept

Building a better tomorrow as a real estate lawyer
Taylor Wessing partner Adam Marks reflects on his career journey to date and his latest project, City 2040

Osborne Clarke picks BPP to prepare future trainees for SQE
First cohort starts September 2024

Why being a global finance lawyer is the next best thing to being a rockstar
Ashurst partner Navdeep Benning discusses her career journey to date

Magic circle pay war: A&O matches Linklaters with £107.5k NQ lawyer salary
Trainee pay also up

Womble Bond aims to run all offices on renewable energy by 2026
International law firm latest to set net zero target 🍃