Tag: Solicitors

A hashtag spawned by Sean Jones QC took off this morning.

Someone has put a video on YouTube that was filmed inside top City law firm Slaughter and May in 1981.

Articles in The Independent, The Telegraph and The Guardian about Robert Sayer disappear from search engine after implementation of controversial ruling.

When jargon goes very wrong indeed...

Sadly, no -- it’s an MP instead. But a recent City of London event on whether the law should be scrapped still generates volatile and at times polarised debate.

It was traumatic and shoes were hurled from windows, but eventually the country’s “top” divorce lawyer was able to sign her own fail-safe document

The children of the financial crisis could pose a danger to law firms if their ambitions aren't accommodated.

Saturday's gay pride celebration saw a record 30,000 revellers march through central London. Among them was a large contingent from the legal profession.

Brazil 2014 legal geekery: striking parallels revealed.

London-based wannabe solicitor seeks to raise £15,000.

Following Wonga's creation of fake law firms Chainey, D'Amato & Shannon and Barker & Lowe, Twitter users have been having some fun with the #FakeWongaLawFirms hashtag. Here are a selection.

High Court clears way for Selwyn Strachan — who was released from prison in Grenada in 2009 after Amnesty International slammed his "fatally flawed" trial — to become a solicitor.

Parody accounts already alive on Twitter as pay-day lender coughs up millions in compensation

War of words rages north of the border — and perks up independence debate — following inflammatory tweet

Tens of thousands of fake followers descend on Mark Lewis after — irony of ironies — his Twitter account is hacked.

"It's the fruity ones which are the most fun? No, wait..."

60% of stressed-out solicitors say volume of work is the problem; 42% cite client expectations.

Combining law firm marketing with action hero role-play.

15 hour days and "being sent to buy lingerie on the weekend": trainee solicitors reveal what life at big law firm is really like.

Solicitors’ representation body in desperate bid to steady ship as search to replace chief executive drowns in jargon and rivalries

Silicon Valley software company Palantir doesn't have in-house lawyers, it has "legal ninjas" -- and it wants to find one in London, where the term will surely never catch on.