Tag: Solicitors
‘Unexploited’ legal market gives lawyers chance to escape grind and become tech entrepreneurs
Corporate lawyer founder of Silicon Roundabout legal start-up on how he secured £260K investment -- and why he sees market primed with opportunity for solicitors and barristers
Grayling Magna Carta party latest — win raffle to open a bridge
Highlight of Ministry of Justice’s controversial Global Law Summit to be a bottleneck of traffic in east London
Herbert Smith Freehills and Reed Smith both post retention rates of over 90%
International City giants will hang on to 93% and 91% of their trainees
Guilty until proven innocent? Ministry of Justice mistakenly reverses the burden of proof
Top legal tweeters Mukul Chawla QC and David Allen Green call out MoJ
Junior lawyer battles food waste living on a pound a day for charity
Corporate law specialist at Trethowans in one-woman challenge against modern world laziness
An intellectual property firm has nicked a corporate law firm’s name
Isn't this ironic
Tadpoles and pigs play key role in high street law firm paralegal hiring policy
"Insult to intelligence" critical reasoning test pivotal in determining whether you’re up to the task of checking land registry searches at west country solicitors’ firm
The campaign for the trainee solicitor minimum salary is being resurrected
Battle to protect trainee pay not over yet
95% of top law firms predict ‘massive consolidation’ over next two years
The firm you join as a trainee may not be the firm at which you qualify
Ex-Shearman & Sterling lawyer goes viral with YouTube rap
Unlikely social media sensation of the week ...
City firm tries to boost women partner numbers by getting female trainees to talk more about career development
Herbert Smith Freehills' new women trainee network is part of firm's bid to make its partnership 30% female
Alternative careers: junior solicitor launches cat cafe to help stressed out students
Feline-themed venture by Maclay Murray & Spens lawyer could be purrrfect for beleaguered legal hopefuls
Clifford Chance’s Aysh Chaudhry saga — a sad and salutary tale
Global mega firm caught between a rock and a hard place as fall-out from YouTube rant lingers
Dentons merges with China’s Dacheng to become the biggest law firm ever to grace the planet
London firm quiet on prospects for trainees in wake of China merger
The first City law firm trainee retention rate of 2015 has been released
Trowers & Hamlins' 82% figure bodes well, but it's early days yet
London office of US firm launches unpaid vac scheme-lite for first year students
Weil Gotshal & Manges cites an “increasingly competitive environment” in move to target ever-younger students, who will be working for free
£1,750-a-head Magna Carta ‘summit’ hijacked by legal aid event that costs a tenner
With delegate fees at more than £1,700, don’t expect to see too many young lawyers brushing shoulders with the PM and BoJo at next month’s official Magna Carta celebrations. But there is an alternative…
Someone has done a poo on the floor of Westminster Magistrates Court
Solicitor’s tweet about excrement on floor of Westminster Magistrates Court leads to Vice interview
Full 21 minute video: Clifford Chance trainee’s Charlie Hebdo rant has re-appeared on YouTube
Exclusive: Magic circle rookie issues apology as his controversial musings on Paris attacks re-emerge online
You might want to avoid White & Case’s canteen
London office of US firm given 1/5 hygiene rating by Food Standards Agency
Clifford Chance trainee pulls Charlie Hebdo rant from YouTube
Exclusive: Magic circle firm distances itself from rookie's online diatribe -- not difficult to imagine the reaction of senior partners