Tag: Partners

How techy do you have to be to work in tech law?

DWF technology, media and telecoms partner Ben McLeod shares his thoughts

Feb 11 2020 2:02pm

My life as a tech lawyer

Womble Bond Dickinson partner Alastair Mitton offers insights into the fast-moving sector

Feb 4 2020 10:15am

From trainee to City law firm partner in ten years

Travers Smith’s Stephanie Lee reflects on her path to partnership and the high-stakes litigation that she’s worked on along the way

Jan 14 2020 2:50pm

The Green Economy will be the defining theme of the 2020s

Three Shoosmiths partners look at what’s happening now and in the future

Jan 8 2020 2:27pm

Revealed: The best law firms for peer support and partner approachability 2019-20

Winner to be announced at the Legal Cheek Awards on 26 March 2020, alongside a host of other categories

Dec 13 2019 9:41am

City lawyers are just like people selling fruit on a market stall

Phil Sanderson, co-chair of the global private equity transactions group at Ropes & Gray, gives his own take on commercial awareness

Nov 15 2019 1:00pm

‘Mobile phones were big black boxes and only four of us had a computer’

Michael Luckman, an intellectual property partner at Gowling WLG, reflects on trainee life in the eighties

Nov 13 2019 12:56pm

Taylor Wessing lawyers open up about mental health

Partners and associates share experiences of handling stress at work

Oct 31 2019 10:26am

Eversheds Sutherland partner found dead within hours of being suspended from work

Geraint Thomas had been accused of inappropriate sexual behaviour

Oct 14 2019 11:26am

Mental health: a once taboo subject for City lawyers

Taylor Wessing litigation partner and head of the firm’s Wellbeing Network, Laurence Lieberman, chats to Legal Cheek's Aishah Hussain

Oct 11 2019 2:25pm

Freshfields partner resigns as SDT upholds one allegation of misconduct — but avoids ban

Ryan Beckwith, who had been accused of engaging in sexual activity with intoxicated junior colleague, fined £35,000 and ordered to pay £235,000 in costs

Oct 10 2019 11:53am

Disciplinary tribunal against Freshfields partner told of ‘drinking culture’

Ryan Beckwith accused of engaging in sexual activity with a junior colleague without her consent

Oct 1 2019 12:14pm

Weil lawyers consider what’s next for the global economy

Firm that acted for Lehman Brothers in 2008 looks back over last decade and forecasts what may be around the corner

Sep 19 2019 1:04pm

My life as a leveraged finance lawyer

Weil, Gotshal & Manges banking & finance partner Tom Richards looks back on his career and offers advice to the next generation of lawyers

Sep 9 2019 2:08pm

Nottingham’s thriving legal scene presents new opportunities for aspiring lawyers

ULaw Nottingham campus dean and former real estate partner Andy Matthews shares insights from his time in practice

Jul 23 2019 2:16pm

My journey from trainee to partner

Baker McKenzie’s Jeremy Levy looks back at his path to partnership

Jul 4 2019 2:14pm