Tag: Solicitors
CMS Cameron McKenna waves good-bye to 38% of spring NQs
CMS Cameron McKenna has kept just 16 of its 26 spring newly-qualified cohort, posting a comparatively woeful retention rate of 62%
Google Street View shatters law firm’s delusions of grandeur
Never judge a law firm by its website
Saul Goodman-style mavericks vs straight-A golden children: who will be the advocates of the future?
Is it over for the rough diamonds in law?
Pinsent Masons retains 79% of qualifying trainees
Latest City firm to put qualifying young bloods out of their misery is keeping 15 of its spring 2015 round
Revealed: How law schools’ websites looked at the dawn of the millennium
Throwback Thursday: A journey back in time through the World Wide Web -- law school edition
Striking again — court defeat over legal aid cuts could see barristers back on picket line
Court backs government plans for massive cuts in number of legal aid law firms, reigniting fears that law students wanting a career in crime will have to rob banks
Exeter Uni students boss this year’s Clifford Chance ‘CV Blind’ competition
Students from Russell Group institution net 20% of vac scheme places awarded through scheme, but overall winner is from LSE
A lawyer is backing a terrifying law to enforce public execution of gay people
Quirks in California’s referendum system have allowed the promotion of a dangerously homophobic bill, as local politicians call for lawyer proponent to be struck off
How to become a QC at a City law firm
Herbert Smith Freehills' Matthew Weiniger QC found that clients were reluctant to instruct solicitors in the High Court, but not in international arbitrations
Leveson’s advice to wannabe advocates: stop bleating on about the blindingly obvious
On the eve of judging the Bar’s annual mock trial competition the President of the Queen’s Bench Division speaks exclusively to Legal Cheek
Celestial gods snub legal London – City lawyers miss out on eclipse fun
Eclipse? What eclipse? That was the disappointed chorus from the heart of the legal profession planet; but Faroese lawyers were laughing
Lawyer fleeced for best part of €250,000 from client account in a scam as old as (Nigerian) hills
Irish high court stops short of striking off Dublin solicitor because he was depressed -- and paid the cash back
The Judge Rules: Law firm websites – bring back the good old simpler days
Modern cyber marketing is flashing, but it lacks the individualistic charm of the earlier generation
Queen Mary students are the most commercially aware wannabe lawyers in Britain
London uni wins corporate law version of University Challenge
Clifford Chance’s website and the tale of the mysterious asterisk
There’s a little secret about the magic circle firm’s law firm of the year boast. Read on …
New breed press body throws out Lord Harley complaints
Newspaper watchdog rules that two Fleet Street tabloids and a regional publication did not breach code of practice in reporting on the elaborate claims of one of the country's most renowned advocates
Hogan Lovells to sponsor undergrads in tie-up with LSE, York and Durham
Exclusive: Global law firm to award first and second years up to £18,000 in bid to broaden access to profession
The law firm-funded LLM: Norton Rose Fulbright to sponsor Queen Mary masters places
Global giant extends funding beyond GDL and LPC costs to LLM fees
1 Crown Office Row barrister in bid to become first Whig party MP for 150 years
Five years' call junior to run for parliament representing newly "refounded" political party that was dissolved in 1868
Legal Cheek meets the first person to do the paralegal shortcut
Shaun Lawler tells Alex Aldridge about how he's set to become one of the first four LPC graduates in the country to become a solicitor without doing a training contract
Now world’s most-famous journalist is hooked on Lord Harley of Counsel saga too
Glenn Greenwald -- the man behind the Edward Snowden story -- gripped by tale of Harry Potter-style solicitor-advocate