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
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 ...
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
Clifford Chance lawyers prepare to swap their suits for hoodies that are colour-coded by rank
No, it's not 1 April yet -- this is legit
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
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
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%
Google Street View shatters law firm’s delusions of grandeur
Never judge a law firm by its website
Saul Goodman-style mavericks vs straight-A golden children: who will be the advocates of the future?
Is it over for the rough diamonds in law?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Queen Mary students are the most commercially aware wannabe lawyers in Britain
London uni wins corporate law version of University Challenge
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 …