Tag: Solicitors

How to build a career as a real estate lawyer
Ahead of tomorrow’s event, ‘Inside Track: How to make it as a City lawyer, Mayer Brown senior associate Sarah Rochelle explains what commercial awareness really means

Criminal defence solicitor expecting child with Celebrity Big Brother reality star
Couple met after she represented Jeremy McConnell for assaulting Hollyoaks actress Stephanie Davis

Exclusive interview: Man who brought private prosecution against Boris Johnson faces ‘financial ruin’ over £200,000 debt
Uncertainty over Marcus Ball’s future comes despite crowdfunding over £500,000

Pride 2019: Lawyers take to London’s streets to celebrate LGBT+ rights
Pride Jubilee marked half-century since Stonewall uprising

Nearly a third of magic circle trainees went to Oxbridge
This despite making up less than 1% of each year’s graduating class

Stephenson Harwood ups junior lawyer pay to £75,000
Trainees also handed extra cash

My journey from trainee to partner
Baker McKenzie’s Jeremy Levy looks back at his path to partnership

Inside Norton Rose Fulbright’s new lawtech module with York University
Those behind the first-of-its-kind, jointly-taught programme reveal the thinking behind the move

City pay war latest: Herbert Smith Freehills ups NQ package to £105,000
New six-figure sum includes bonus

Average partner earnings at Clifford Chance remain steady at £1.6 million
Canary Wharf giant’s global revenues up 4% to £1.7 billion

Macfarlanes ups NQ solicitor salaries to £85,000 with bonuses taking potential earnings to over £110,000
City player also confirms 100% retention score

How I leveraged my foreign language skills to secure a City training contract
Lewis Fairfax, corporate litigator at Hogan Lovells, chats to Legal Cheek's Aishah Hussain ahead of his appearance at next Wednesday’s ‘Inside Track: How to become a City lawyer' event

Linklaters becomes final magic circle firm to up NQ pay package to £100,000
City pay war continues

Event: How to become a City lawyer — with Baker McKenzie, Hogan Lovells, Mayer Brown, PRIME and BPP Law School
This Wednesday evening in London

What I’ve learned so far
Experts from Dechert, Ropes & Gray, Wiggin and The University of Law share their tips for TC hunters

Fine for former Schillings operations chief who flogged 95 firm phones
He pocketed over £13,500

The tech revolution through the eyes of a data privacy lawyer
Pinsent Masons senior associate Rif Kapadi reflects on the far-reaching implications of GDPR

Over 35 MPs enrol for work experience with legal aid lawyers
#TakeYourMPToWork campaign aims to highlight pressing need for properly funded justice system

Baker McKenzie cuts 46 support roles in London
International outfit also reportedly looking to move to smaller -- but swankier -- City office space