Tag: Solicitors
The first City law firm trainee retention rate of 2015 has been released
Trowers & Hamlins' 82% figure bodes well, but it's early days yet
London office of US firm launches unpaid vac scheme-lite for first year students
Weil Gotshal & Manges cites an “increasingly competitive environment” in move to target ever-younger students, who will be working for free
£1,750-a-head Magna Carta ‘summit’ hijacked by legal aid event that costs a tenner
With delegate fees at more than £1,700, don’t expect to see too many young lawyers brushing shoulders with the PM and BoJo at next month’s official Magna Carta celebrations. But there is an alternative…
Someone has done a poo on the floor of Westminster Magistrates Court
Solicitor’s tweet about excrement on floor of Westminster Magistrates Court leads to Vice interview
Full 21 minute video: Clifford Chance trainee’s Charlie Hebdo rant has re-appeared on YouTube
Exclusive: Magic circle rookie issues apology as his controversial musings on Paris attacks re-emerge online
You might want to avoid White & Case’s canteen
London office of US firm given 1/5 hygiene rating by Food Standards Agency
Clifford Chance trainee pulls Charlie Hebdo rant from YouTube
Exclusive: Magic circle firm distances itself from rookie's online diatribe -- not difficult to imagine the reaction of senior partners
Legal profession has best-ever showing in gay-friendly employer rankings
Three law firms make top 10 of Stonewall list, seven more in top 100 -- and one granted "star performer" status. Plus the CPS is there too
Is this the most random Twitter hacking ever to have befallen a law firm?
Hill Dickinson’s Twitter account "hacked" by The Undateables fan
BBC throws jobless LPC students a training contract lifeline
New in-house TCs start in September this year
11 reasons to think twice about doing the BPTC
Thinking of putting in an application to do the Bar Professional Training Course before today's deadline? Read this first
Latham & Watkins becomes latest firm to ‘northshore’ with Manchester support office
City law firms' quest for lower overheads and staff costs continues
Why the cab rank rule is history
There’s never a taxi when you want one -- the solicitors’ professional body says the bar’s regulation is arcane, irrelevant and reached its sell-by date
Law firms ditch training contracts in favour of ‘periods of recognised training’
25-year-old term consigned to history as not-very-catchy replacement is introduced
Law firm faces tirade of Twitter abuse for standing by Oldham as Ched Evans saga rumbles on
CM Solicitors -- who act for Oldham as well as sponsoring the club -- face down social media backlash
Got a deep macho voice? Best not to become a court advocate, say researchers
Study shows that confidence is far more important than sounding testosterone-fuelled when wooing judges and juries
Manchester law firm in front line of debate over possible Ched Evans move to Oldham FC
Kit sponsorship means the firm’s name would brush up against that of the convicted rapist -- but CM Solicitors says it will not pull plug on deal if the Wales international signs on at Boundary Park
London offices of US giants follow magic circle in bringing forward vac scheme application deadlines
Deadlines for London offices of Shearman & Sterling, Latham & Watkins and Sullivan & Cromwell are next week -- joining handful of other firms
5 predictions for the legal profession in 2015
A splintering graduate recruitment model will create opportunities for savvy wannabe lawyers, forecasts Legal Cheek managing editor Alex Aldridge
Robot solicitors? Firm and uni team up to apply artificial intelligence to law
Potential bad news for training contract hunters of the future ...
Law Society launches what looks like a mag for ex-jail birds — but it’s really for in-house counsel
Ludicrously-titled publication arrives as scourge of clinical negligence lawyers prepares to take Chancery Lane helm