Tag: Solicitors

SRA fines law firm for failing to provide diversity data
First of its kind

How will AI impact junior lawyers?
Solicitor Baljinder Singh Atwal examines some of the main concerns

January event dates for aspiring solicitors and barristers
Featuring Travers Smith, Clifford Chance, Hill Dickinson, Gatehouse and more!

Win an SQE1 scholarship with your vision of what motivates young people to be solicitors
New BARBRI essay comp

Full video: The SQE assessments – a deep dive
SQE trainee and BPP’s Head of Outreach reflect on lessons so far

BCLP braces for low trainee retention rate
Exclusive: Firm stresses final figures still to be finalised

Super regulator probes events leading up to SRA’s closure of Axiom Ince
Important for public confidence, says LSB

A round-up of the best legal Xmas trees
Who has the best baubles and top tinsel? 🎄

Number of ‘privileged’ solicitors remains high
But significant progress in other areas, says regulator

Slaughters makes ‘reduced hours for reduced pay’ permanent option for lawyers
Follows succesful pilot

Ex-Linklaters associate sells CrowdJustice for undisclosed fee
Julia Salasky living the dream as she turns focus to her second business, a $25 million legal tech start-up

Solicitor who slapped paralegal on the buttocks suspended
Four separate allegations

What went down at the Legal Cheek–ULaw Winter 2023 Virtual Vacation Scheme
A whistle-stop tour of a week’s worth of commercial awareness discussions and applications advice

What newly qualified lawyers at top law firms earn per hour
We worked it out

What finance lawyers really do
Womble Bond Dickinson’s Philip Withey on the lifecycle of a banking deal and how he stays commercially aware

How one engineer is helping lawyers build robots
Pinsent Masons technical lead talks all things AI

Exclusive: Legal influencer’s law firm goes into liquidation owing over £1 million
Behind Alice Stephenson’s social media glitz and glamour, an uncomfortable reality check