Tag: Baker & McKenzie

City Law firms partner with KCL to launch student-staffed law clinic addressing LGBTQ+ discrimination
Baker McKenzie and Clyde & Co

‘Your journey to partnership starts on day one as a trainee’
Baker McKenzie’s Hannah Luqmani talks career progression, client relationships and walking on chocolate

Baker McKenzie keeps 13 out of 18 spring qualifying trainees
One on fixed-term deal

Baker McKenzie Belgium managing partner departs firm following review into racism claims
Firm looks to assemble new management team and takes 'appropriate action' in relation to other staff

Baker McKenzie Belgium managing partner steps down pending review into office racism claims
Follows email leaked to Legal Cheek

Exclusive: Baker McKenzie lawyer quits citing ‘lack of diversity’ in email to colleagues
Firm apologises and says it is conducting 'thorough review of the issues highlighted'

How I secured my UK training contract as an international student
Legal Cheek events coordinator and future City trainee Divyansh Sharma offers up his top five tips

Baker McKenzie fees face criticism from High Court judge for contributing to ‘disproportionate’ costs
Partners billing at £801 per hour

Bakers confirms SQE maintenance grant of up to £17k
Also boosts GDL and LPC support

Bakers bumps TC numbers from 33 to 40
Follows similar move by Travers

Bakers retains 14 of 16 autumn NQ solicitors
A score of 88%

Bakers boosts NQ lawyer salaries to £110,000
City firms continue to up pay 📈

Bakers provides £4k LPC ‘boost grant’ to future trainees in financial difficulty
On top of standard £10k maintenance support

How the SQE brings greater ‘flexibility, freedom and innovation’
Graduate recruiters and L&D teams at Baker McKenzie, DWF, HSF and Reed Smith join an expert in legal education at BARBRI to discuss the opportunities available to aspiring solicitors under the new regime

Bakers backs ‘up and coming’ fintech firms with £100k worth of free legal support
City player to advise three UK start-ups over six-month period

More law firms exit Russia as Dentons and Bakers keep offices open
White & Case donates $1 million to Ukraine aid

Ukraine invasion: Ashurst ceases Russian work as City response continues
Big legal players reassess Moscow links

Russian invasion prompts CMS, Bakers and Dentons to close Kyiv offices
International law firms take decisive action

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?

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