Tag: Solicitors

Solicitor suspended for eight years for jury internet research
Ex-Irwin Mitchell associate spent four weeks in prison

Law firm office boasts giant slide
Because stairs are soooo 2023

‘What’s everyone’s home-working policy? I’m basically back five days in the office’
Is WFH over? questions associate

A&O and HSF post spring trainee retention rates
77% and 97%

Ex-Magic Circle lawyer reaches Miss England final
Property specialist Alice Cutler will compete this May

Regulator takes action against ex-Dentons lawyer for sexual misconduct
Quit before disciplinary meeting could take place

Huge disparity in LPC provider pass rates as SQE was introduced
Between 100% and 21%

‘Training contract seekers need to sell themselves, prepare well and persist’
Hill Dickinson partner Richard Capper discusses life in the firm’s banking and finance team and offers advice for the next generation of lawyers

Clyde & Co fined £500k for anti-money laundering failures
Former partner also sanctioned

A&O Shearman sets out City office plans
Merger gathers pace

Slaughters gets tough on desk ditchers with office entry monitoring
Data shared with management

Weil bumps newly qualified lawyer salaries to £170k
Latest City rise

Mishcon acquires flexi-lawyer business
London firm moves into alternative legal services market

Post Office scandal: SRA unlikely to expedite lawyer prosecutions
Likely wait until inquiry's conclusion

Meet the lawyer working with some of the UK’s most exciting tech, media and entertainment start-ups
Harbottle & Lewis partner Tom Macleod sits down with Legal Cheek

City solicitor fined £10k for holding out to be sole practitioner
Motivated by compassion

SRA recruits more staff to handle Axiom Ince fallout
Deal with compensation claims

US firms dominate M&A work as deals slump to decade low
Tech suffers particularly badly

What legal disputes and puzzles have in common
Travers Smith partner Stephanie Lee talks billion-dollar disputes, careers advice and life at the firm