Tag: Law firms

Guess the law firm emoji quiz
Twenty of the country's top law firms illustrated using emoticons

Falling through the cracks of the furlough scheme — a NQ lawyer’s perspective
'I feel I have effectively been forced out of the profession', a junior family solicitor writes

Hand sanitiser, face masks and temperature testing — legal life post-lockdown
City firms plan lawyers return

Millennial lawyers aren’t ‘work-shy, ill-informed or lazy’
Academics Andrew Francis and Lydia Bleasdale outline the challenges facing younger lawyers and the importance of managing expectations

‘My online vac scheme is shorter — can I still ask the firm to pay me in full?’
I budgeted on receiving a three-week salary

60% of legal workers think firms should be doing more to support remote working
But three quarters say lockdown has shown they can work effectively from home

Law students pessimistic about pandemic career prospects, survey shows
But future trainees think their TC offers will still be honoured

Linklaters announces two-week virtual vacation scheme with three weeks’ pay
COVID-19: Last of the magic fivesome to reveal student summer plans

Law firm embraces ‘legal glamping’ in response to pandemic
April King opts for eye-catching tent solution as lawyers prepare to return to office

Simmons & Simmons and Akin Gump summer vacation schemes move online
As Eversheds explores similar option

An open letter to law firms considering deferring training contracts
They should look to the past before making decisions on trainees' futures

Over 60% of legal staff want to work from home post-lockdown
Not having to commute top reason for ditching the office

Lawyers are ‘biggest threat to reopening the economy’, claims financial journalist
Prepare for tide of litigation post-lockdown Michael Lynn forecasts

A&O follows Clifford Chance, Freshfields and Slaughters with virtual vacation scheme
Mayer Brown, White & Case and Travers Smith summer internships also move online

Slaughters, Bakers, Bird & Bird, Skadden and Debevoise move to virtual vacation schemes
New online offerings to mirror in-office experience but will be shorter than originally planned

Deloitte scraps summer legal internships — offers interns £500 instead
Big Four player to run voluntary four-week virtual mentorship programme, as more law firms cancel vacation schemes in view of COVID-19

The technological disruption facing law firms in the wake of the pandemic
Times of necessity have rocketed innovative practices into daily life a lot sooner than many expected

Surrey man ordered to hand over ‘sidleylawyers’ domain name to Sidley Austin
Anil Mannick wanted US law firm to pay him £2,400 for web address

Freshfields and Taylor Wessing summer vacation schemes will go ahead — online
City law firms continue to switch to virtual programmes amid virus disruption

Will success of home-working prompt firms to rethink their plush City offices?
Pandemic puts question mark over corporate law's love-affair with swanky spaces

Biotech start-up calls on law firms to donate acetate sheets for PPE production
Plastic A4 covers converted into face masks for NHS workers