Tag: Solicitors

Commercial awareness: What is it and how to get it?
Good lawyers are the ones who truly understand their clients

Applying for training contracts? Be sure to bring your ‘genuine self’ to interviews
DWF’s Paul Maddock reflects on his career and how the profession is becoming more inclusive

Law Society publishes guidance to support disabled aspiring lawyers
Online materials, reasonable adjustments, flexible working and more

Slaughters raises newly qualified lawyer salaries to £125k
Early Christmas present

Former trainee solicitor barred for concealing criminal property
Resigns four months into TC

Junior lawyers: let us refuse work on ethical grounds
New research shows culture split

‘Are you a Jew?’ Husband and wife City lawyers subjected to ‘antisemitic attack’ on bus
Footage of incident involving associates from Slaughters and MoFo shared widely online

HFW joins solicitor apprenticeship movement
First cohort in 2024

LADbible boss takes top role at listed law firm
IPO and all-round business guru

Solicitor offered friend a training contract that didn’t exist
And he's been struck off as a result

Axiom Ince: Dawn raids and arrests as Serious Fraud Office launches probe
Over £60 million missing from client account

‘I studied for the SQE while training at AstraZeneca – here’s what it was like’
AstraZeneca graduate solicitor apprentice talks SQE1&2, balancing work and study and revision tips

Bakers targets A Level students with social mobility support programme
Skills sessions, networking, mentorship and more

Why flexibility is key if the SQE is to fulfil its potential
Using QWE and online learning to make the most of the SQE's flexible approach to qualification

Lawyers among least likely to have workplace affairs
Loyal lovers

My journey from pupil barrister to Attorney General – and why students should consider a career as a government lawyer
Victoria Prentis KC MP writes exclusively for Legal Cheek

The many moving cogs in a real estate transaction
TLT senior associate Jayne Adair talks financing deals, renewables and the key skills required to work in the real estate sector

A&O suffers cyber attack
Impacts small number of storage servers, says firm

10 things commercial real estate lawyers do
CMS lawyers share their insights

Milbank ups newly qualified lawyer salaries to market-leading record high
Exclusive: £183k in London 🔥