Tag: Solicitors

Newly-qualified retention latest: Simmons clocks up 80%

City firm hangs on to 12 of 15 freshly minted solicitors -- and places one in house

Apr 1 2015 3:26pm

Lawyer left red-faced in Facebook advert typo

Today's *face palm* award goes to a US lawyer in Maryland -- but, hands up, it could happen to any of us ...

Apr 1 2015 12:43pm

Access to Freshfields’ new Manchester office is through a shopping centre

Lawyers at esteemed magic circle firm will be able to grab fast-food and trainers en route to work

Mar 31 2015 1:52pm

Law firms run Oxbridge recruitment targets as high as 50% of trainees, says diversity chief

A senior Law Society figure claims unofficial bias in favour of elitism remains rife among City and large commercial firms

Mar 30 2015 9:41am

University of Law beats rivals to bag first teaching law firm licence

Nottingham left to lick its wounds as the country’s biggest law school is awarded alternative business structure status

Mar 27 2015 3:57pm

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%

Mar 27 2015 2:23pm

Google Street View shatters law firm’s delusions of grandeur

Never judge a law firm by its website

Mar 27 2015 9:55am

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

Mar 26 2015 2:24pm

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

Mar 26 2015 12:31pm

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

Mar 25 2015 3:42pm

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

Mar 25 2015 12:08pm

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

Mar 24 2015 12:19pm

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

Mar 24 2015 11:25am

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

Mar 24 2015 9:14am

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

Mar 20 2015 4:08pm

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

Mar 20 2015 3:13pm

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

Mar 20 2015 11:50am

Queen Mary students are the most commercially aware wannabe lawyers in Britain

London uni wins corporate law version of University Challenge

Mar 20 2015 10:03am

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 …

Mar 20 2015 9:14am