Author: Legal Cheek

Latest financials reveal mixed fortunes for City firms
Pinsent Masons, Simmons & Simmons, Clyde & Co, RPC and HFW among those to post 2020 results

Herbert Smith Freehills: Partner profits slip by nearly 10% to £857,000
Taylor Wessing also records drop

‘Eat Out to Help Out’… at the Supreme Court
Top court’s café joins government’s new discount scheme -- but remains closed for now

US law firm Crowell & Moring to recruit first London trainee
Inaugural rookie will complete 'non-rotational' TC
Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from the weekend

‘I’m torn between two magic circle TC offers in the Middle East’
I need readers’ advice

Best of the blogs
Weekly round-up of the top legal blogosphere posts

Partner profits at Freshfields dip to £1.82 million as revenue creeps up 3%
Magic circle player cites 'challenging economic climate'
Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from the weekend
Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from the weekend

Final seat trainee: ‘I didn’t get my dream NQ role in tech — should I look elsewhere?’
I will instead be qualifying into commercial litigation

Best of the blogs
Weekly round-up of the top legal blogosphere posts

Ban for legal assistant who lied about passing exams
‘Altered’ letter to show CILEx assessment success

COVID-19: Lawyer attends court in hazmat suit
Florida's Samuel J. Rabin Jr. takes no chances

Clifford Chance keeps 36 out of 46 autumn qualifying trainee solicitors
Further two rookies retained on six-month deals
Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from the weekend

Irwin Mitchell lawyers offered Zoom twerk class
Cancelled due to 'low engagement'

Best of the blogs
Weekly round-up of the top legal blogosphere posts

‘Can I do a UK training contract if I’m based overseas?’
We put one reader's question to the regulator

COVID-19: BSB pushes ahead with online exams — but offers students test centre option
Regulator publishes fresh guidance