Tag: Lawyers

Lawyers out-earn doctors and dentists with £93k average salary
Chief execs top 2021 earnings table with £131k, new stats show

Lawyers pound the pavements for charity
Over 8,000 walkers went the distance at yesterday's London Legal Walk

What to expect when you meet a wannabe lawyer — some Medieval advice
Freshers be wary

Legal aid: Are City lawyers best placed to plug the gap?
Shadow Justice Sec David Lammy's suggestion BigLaw should up pro bono efforts prompts split on Twitter

Over two-thirds of lawyers have suffered mental ill-health
Lawyer wellbeing charity LawCare calls for profession-wide change in new report

From picnics to kebabs: lawyers car eating habits revealed in new research
Over a quarter dine in their vehicles daily

Help Afghan lawyers escape ‘perilous future’ under Taliban rule, urge legal groups
Law Society, Bar Council and Bar Human Rights Committee 'gravely concerned' about fate of at least 250 female judges

Quarter of junior lawyers expect to work from the office full-time after ‘Freedom Day’
WFH guidance to be dropped on 19 July

Aspiring lawyers divided over career in legal aid
40% of students would not consider publicly funded work, new poll shows, as legal aid group launches new survey to find out why

Pride 2021: Clifford Chance lawyers belt out gender-neutral track
Magic circle marks Pride month 🏳️🌈

Meet the lawyers dating England and Scotland’s footballers
Ahead of tonight's big game 🏴 vs 🏴

Australia to open door to UK junior lawyers in post-Brexit trade agreement
Law Society cautions 'practical barriers' around qualifications

Lawyers of the future could be required to take productivity-boosting drugs, Law Society predicts
Legal workforce could drop by almost 50% in 'disruptive' vision of 2050 profession

Ex-City lawyer on £100k reveals she’s taken 80% pay cut to specialise in human rights
She currently earns just over £18k but hopes to revert to six-figure salary in new field

Latham sets lawyers’ Skype status to ‘away’ outside business hours to break ‘online 24/7 mindset’
Switch occurs automatically after 6pm

New report reveals practice areas most and least impacted by pandemic
Downturn in areas including litigation, property and immigration, while employment, commercial, tax, and risk & compliance thrive

Lawyer bakes ‘Kavanagh Caterpillar QC’ cake to ‘defend’ Aldi’s Cuthbert in tasty IP battle
Wig ✅ gown ✅ White Book ✅

Bird & Bird thanks lawyers and staff with Covid bonus
Rewarded €1,000 for 'hard work and extraordinary contributions'

KFC’s top lawyer swaps fried chicken for pizza
Lawrence Grabau moves across to Pizza Hut as its new chief legal officer

Google’s top lawyer raked in $51 million last year — out earning music superstars Drake, J-Lo and Pink
Majority of Kent Walker's monster 2020 compensation comes from stock awards