Tag: Lawyers

Newly-qualified retention latest: Simmons clocks up 80%

City firm hangs on to 12 of 15 freshly minted solicitors -- and places one in house

Apr 1 2015 3:26pm

Lawyer left red-faced in Facebook advert typo

Today's *face palm* award goes to a US lawyer in Maryland -- but, hands up, it could happen to any of us ...

Apr 1 2015 12:43pm

Law firms run Oxbridge recruitment targets as high as 50% of trainees, says diversity chief

A senior Law Society figure claims unofficial bias in favour of elitism remains rife among City and large commercial firms

Mar 30 2015 9:41am

University of Law beats rivals to bag first teaching law firm licence

Nottingham left to lick its wounds as the country’s biggest law school is awarded alternative business structure status

Mar 27 2015 3:57pm

CMS Cameron McKenna waves good-bye to 38% of spring NQs

CMS Cameron McKenna has kept just 16 of its 26 spring newly-qualified cohort, posting a comparatively woeful retention rate of 62%

Mar 27 2015 2:23pm

Pinsent Masons retains 79% of qualifying trainees

Latest City firm to put qualifying young bloods out of their misery is keeping 15 of its spring 2015 round

Mar 26 2015 2:24pm

Revealed: How law schools’ websites looked at the dawn of the millennium

Throwback Thursday: A journey back in time through the World Wide Web -- law school edition

Mar 26 2015 12:31pm

Striking again — court defeat over legal aid cuts could see barristers back on picket line

Court backs government plans for massive cuts in number of legal aid law firms, reigniting fears that law students wanting a career in crime will have to rob banks

Mar 25 2015 3:42pm

A lawyer is backing a terrifying law to enforce public execution of gay people

Quirks in California’s referendum system have allowed the promotion of a dangerously homophobic bill, as local politicians call for lawyer proponent to be struck off

Mar 24 2015 12:19pm

Celestial gods snub legal London – City lawyers miss out on eclipse fun

Eclipse? What eclipse? That was the disappointed chorus from the heart of the legal profession planet; but Faroese lawyers were laughing

Mar 20 2015 4:08pm

Lawyer fleeced for best part of €250,000 from client account in a scam as old as (Nigerian) hills

Irish high court stops short of striking off Dublin solicitor because he was depressed -- and paid the cash back

Mar 20 2015 3:13pm

The Judge Rules: Law firm websites – bring back the good old simpler days

Modern cyber marketing is flashing, but it lacks the individualistic charm of the earlier generation

Mar 20 2015 11:50am

Clifford Chance’s website and the tale of the mysterious asterisk

There’s a little secret about the magic circle firm’s law firm of the year boast. Read on …

Mar 20 2015 9:14am

New breed press body throws out Lord Harley complaints

Newspaper watchdog rules that two Fleet Street tabloids and a regional publication did not breach code of practice in reporting on the elaborate claims of one of the country's most renowned advocates

Mar 19 2015 1:48pm

1 Crown Office Row barrister in bid to become first Whig party MP for 150 years

Five years' call junior to run for parliament representing newly "refounded" political party that was dissolved in 1868

Mar 18 2015 9:01am

From marshalling to murder: Queen Mary law dropout jailed for life

This time last year the former student at UK's third highest-ranked law school was apparently marshalling at the Old Bailey -- where he was sentenced today

Mar 16 2015 3:14pm

Manchester trainee solicitor moonlights as ‘Frozen’ ice princess

Self-confessed Disney addict spices up a life of personal injury files with a spot of make-believe for children’s parties

Mar 16 2015 9:34am

Wannabe barrister sparks newspaper letter row over Justice Secretary’s record

City University law student and local council candidate triggers defence of Chris Grayling in MP’s constituency newspaper

Mar 13 2015 3:24pm

The Judge rules: Legal profession awards — don’t they make you sick?!!!

They are professionally meaningless, expensive and at times messy -- but should the awards ceremonies be pensioned off?

Mar 13 2015 9:27am

Cardiff solicitors seek to wow clients with ‘Throwback Thursday’ childhood recollections

One wanted to be a Formula One driver, one wanted to be a doctor, another wanted to take over the world. They all ended up as lawyers

Mar 12 2015 2:39pm