Tag: Trainees
Freshfields chucks £500 pay rise at trainees as top partners take home nearly £1.5m
Latest magic circle player to update pay gives newly-qualified solicitors a big fat nothing
Herbert Smith Freehills and Ashurst latest to jump on contextual recruiting bandwagon
Both firms adopt diversity tool after informally assessing recruits against it for last year
What the supervisor says Vs What the trainee hears
Junior and senior lawyers speak a different language
City lawyer-to-be ‘Dimitri’ reacts to pay rise news
'Dimitri Finds Out' meme: the corporate law version
Life in a law firm: ‘Prepping to go to Russia #fridaynightmare #byebyeweekend’
RPC trainee Sarah Pearson on what it’s like to drop everything and head to St Petersburg for work
Ashurst latest firm to boost trainee and junior lawyer pay
Gap emerging as "silver circle" firm's pay rises fall short of top 10 rivals
Shearman & Sterling blitzes magic circle with trainee and NQ pay rises
London office of US firm asserts pay supremacy
5 ways to dodge work during your training contract — and still get retained
Pacing yourself is essential for a long and fruitful career: in a guest post an anonymous solicitor -- who writes the must-read Corporate Drone blog -- sets out the tricks
Burges Salmon retains all 24 of its trainees and repeats pledge to boost graduate hiring
Good times in Brizzle
Freshfields: ‘no confidential material used’ by trainee who sold ‘inside tips’ to magic circle hopefuls
Magic circle giant Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has concluded its investigation into the trainee behind controversial...
Quote Of The Day
“Having your boobs out a little bit isn’t fake but it’s a little bit flirtatious...
Shearman & Sterling: ‘We Never Offered Email Scandal Trainee An NQ Solicitor Job; He Resigned Over The Summer’
Yesterday we brought you news of the updated LinkedIn profile of Shearman & Sterling ‘spit...
NOT GUILTY: Trainee Solicitor Cleared Of Racial Abuse At Lap Dancing Club
The trainee solicitor accused of racially abusing a bouncer at a Leeds lap dancing club...
Court Told Of Trainee’s Lap-Dance Club Nightmare
UPDATE: Friday 7 December 9am – Michael Peters found not guilty. The trial of a...
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...
Noses Back To The Grindstone: What Will The New Academic Year Bring For Law Students And Trainees?
Legal Cheek editor Alex Aldridge and Bircham Dyson Bell solicitor Kevin Poulter discuss the big...
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...
Feeling Important: Possible As a Trainee Solicitor?
TheTraineeComplex continues his bid to understand life as a City law firm trainee through reference...
A G&T With @LegalTrainee Founder Izzy Abidi
Earlier this week I caught up with Eversheds trainee Izzy Abidi – the brains behind...
Same Shirt, Different Day: Freudian Explanation?
Last Thursday, I wore the same shirt to work as I had on Wednesday. This...
COMPETITION: 2,000 Words On Legal Education Wins £500, 500 Words Wins a Matching Cap And T-Shirt Set…
The Junior Lawyers Division of the Law Society (JLD) has launched an essay competition for...