Tag: Training contracts

I have a first class construction degree and big ambitions

But the number of lawyers with practising certificates has actually gone down

Why do grad recruiters still use the 85-year-old test?

New firm “not presently” taking old firm trainees

So law isn’t the safe career you thought

The haves and the have nots

Rookies to work as paralegals at new firms until SRA re-registers them

Chancery Lane figure is being ignored by many firms

Clifford Chance and Dentons considering doing the same

More useful than chocolate and satsumas

And stricken giant's future trainees being pointed to priority TC vacancies

I'm back on track now but worried the damage has already been done

Firm denies it has upped compensation payments in wake of online backlash

Katie King and Tom Connelly reflect on CMS Cameron McKenna's £8,000 gap year deal and the tabloids' campaign against top judges

Exclusive: Firm to fund gap years as fallout from three-way merger with Nabarro and Olswang hits

I won’t fit in if the legal profession is that superficial

International giant will take on its first trainees next September

Unacceptable brashness or praiseworthy initiative?

Shearman & Sterling graduate recruitment chief Paul Gascoyne and trainee solicitor Danielle Altink share their pearls of wisdom with Legal Cheek’s Tom Connelly and Katie King

I hope my degree result isn't an insurmountable hurdle

Magic circle firm to recruit 20 fewer trainees