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

Jan 21 2015 10:30am

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

Jan 20 2015 6:33pm

£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…

Jan 20 2015 2:11pm

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

Jan 20 2015 11:53am

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

Jan 19 2015 9:34am

You might want to avoid White & Case’s canteen

London office of US firm given 1/5 hygiene rating by Food Standards Agency

Jan 16 2015 2:12pm

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

Jan 14 2015 4:52pm

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

Jan 14 2015 11:30am

Is this the most random Twitter hacking ever to have befallen a law firm?

Hill Dickinson’s Twitter account "hacked" by The Undateables fan

Jan 14 2015 9:21am

BBC throws jobless LPC students a training contract lifeline

New in-house TCs start in September this year

Jan 12 2015 12:10pm

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

Jan 12 2015 9:37am

Latham & Watkins becomes latest firm to ‘northshore’ with Manchester support office

City law firms' quest for lower overheads and staff costs continues

Jan 9 2015 11:42am

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

Jan 9 2015 10:33am

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

Jan 8 2015 10:57am

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

Jan 8 2015 10:08am

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

Jan 7 2015 9:13am

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

Jan 6 2015 11:43am

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

Jan 6 2015 9:16am

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

Jan 5 2015 10:28am

Robot solicitors? Firm and uni team up to apply artificial intelligence to law

Potential bad news for training contract hunters of the future ...

Jan 5 2015 10:04am

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

Jan 2 2015 11:00am