Tag: Solicitors

Allen & Overy deadline was midnight on New Year's Eve -- leapfrogging rivals, whose deadlines fall in next few days

Your favourite Legal Cheek posts of the year

It has been a vintage year for legal news and gossip -- but how much of it do you remember?

Now for a Jackson reforms-themed Christmas sing-a-long

Students fear dropping "college" from uni's name will hit prestige of their degree -- and they want compensation

City law preference for Oxford and Cambridge rises at partner level

Law firm hit by Viagra hack

Small wooden hammer is not restricted to the US, it emerges

As the 'Do they know it's Christmas' single is criticised for its "cultural ignorance", WaitroseLaw wonders if its message would be better-suited to stressed-out lawyers

De Monfort LLB grad follows UWE law student in hitting the streets

Now this is a law-themed Christmas tree

When on the backbenches, barrister Karl Turner wouldn’t shut up about the disastrous demise of the system; now he’s a bit quieter

Bar associations and law societies across the UK line up to wave two fingers at security services and rozzers over Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act

Corporate lawyer monopoly is officially a thing

Clifford Chance security guard's anonymous Twitter account reveals secrets of life as a magic circle 'second class citizen'

Former Latham & Watkins and Slaughter and May man learned lots from private practice, but doesn’t miss it — he tells Legal Cheek

As legal profession interest in The Apprentice evaporates, our blogger looks back on the last hurrah of ex-Slaughter and May man Felipe as he follows family solicitor Lauren to the exit

Second solicitor ditched from hit BBC show by lawyer-loathing Lord Sugar

Jealous? Just remember that Slaughter and May lawyers are themselves seething with resentment at Skadden lawyers

New pre-trainee tier is becoming the norm

Days after bagging yet another honorary doctorate, BBC Law in Action presenter is in the news again