Tag: Solicitors

What it takes to be an antitrust lawyer
Ropes & Gray partner Ruchit Patel on working with some of the biggest players in pharma and his role as the London office’s graduate recruitment partner

Magic circle partner gives ‘child-friendly’ insight into life as a tax lawyer
With the help of Jaffa Cakes and jigsaws

STEM Future Lawyers and BPP announce 2021 law conversion scholarship
Applications now open for science, technology, engineering and maths students interested in law

Meet the biochemistry grad who found her niche in IP law
Gowling WLG intellectual property associate, Felicity Wade-Palmer, shares her journey into law and explains how IP offers the perfect marriage of law and science

Law firm opens virtual boozer featuring pool tables, beer garden and DJ booth
'The Keystone Arms' 💻🍺

Slaughter and May partner leaves firm following internal probe
Regulator notified

How my STEM degree kickstarted my career as a magic circle lawyer
Catherine Crampton tracks her journey from maths graduate to City associate, and discusses her teaching role at BPP University Law School

The role lawyers play in the rise of renewable energy
Maria Connolly, partner and head of TLT’s cross-disciplinary clean energy team and national head of real estate, discusses her involvement in renewable energy projects and shares advice for those looking to enter this space

From army captain to NewLaw entrepreneur
Simmons & Simmons’ Peter Lee reflects on his unusual route to partnership and explains how COVID-19 has accelerated change within the legal profession

KPMG teams up with BPP to offer SQE training contract
Big Four player embraces solicitor training shake-up

Simmons & Simmons ups London NQ solicitor pay to ÂŁ84,000
Boosts in Bristol too

Life as a lawyer in the North
A panel of lawyers and legal education experts discuss the region’s legal scene

Top divorce firm Vardags in war of words with legal workers’ union following dress code leak
Dress code saga rumbles on

A&O restarts lawyer salary reviews and increases pay
NQs receive pay rise which falls ÂŁ5k short of pre-COVID six-figure sum

Work here if you want an Irish practising certificate, UK solicitors told
Irish Law Society throws post-Brexit curveball

What it’s like to work at a global law firm
Clyde & Co partners from across the firms’ international offices discuss the strategic benefits which come with being a wholly global law firm

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’ lawyer husband to leave DLA Piper
Doug Emhoff will leave global outfit by inauguration day on 20 January

Hogan Lovells offers fast-track path to TC assessment days with new virtual academy
Exclusive: For sixth-form students and up

Law firms dominate social mobility employer list
Top ten spots for BCLP, Browne Jacobson, HSF and Bakers

IBA conference: Regulator has major role to play in junior lawyer wellbeing, argues Sheffield Uni law lecturer
Dr Emma Jones joins other top academics and charity LawCare to launch mental health research study

Law Society: Reserve vac scheme and TC spots for disabled aspiring lawyers
City law firms also encouraged to run more part-time training contracts