Tag: Solicitors
Career May Be Over For City Lawyer Who Groped Woman On National Express Coach As He’s Put On Sex Offenders Register
Hugh Wotherspoon, the solicitor found guilty last month of groping a woman on the Edinburgh-London...
British Law Firm* Is Obama’s Third Highest Campaign Funder
None of the ‘serious’ legal publications have reported the news that DLA Piper is the...
Meet The Solicitors With Second Jobs As Writers For Essay Companies That Target Students
Yesterday, we brought you news of an essay-writing company that pays LPC and BPTC graduates...
What Is It With Law Graduates And The Urge To Steal From John Lewis?
An LPC graduate has admitted stealing from John Lewis via a fake refund scam, just...
How To Face Down Dirty Tactics During a Vac Scheme
Over the weekend, ‘The Budding Lawyer’ wrote of the dirty tactics he had fallen victim...
Welcome To The ‘Envy Economy’ Of City Law Firms
I spend my days in the office listening to management speak. When I’m not going...
Leap To The Other Side: Camden New Journal Music Editor On How She’s Juggling Journalism And Law
For the past two years I have been leading a double life – part music...
Is It OK For Solicitors To Ask Their Secretaries To Cancel The Milk For Them?
Hearing trainee solicitors talk about “their secretary” always makes me cringe. Invariably it’s done in...
#RoundMyKitchenTable: Understanding How Law Firms Think About A-Levels
With many law firms and barristers’ chambers using strict minimum A-level requirements to filter wannabes,...
How To Land a PAID Paralegal Position And Qualify As a Solicitor Without Drowning In Debt
Paralegal Tony, a part-time LPC student and paralegal at a City law firm, says that...
Did Freshfields’ Olympics Sponsorship Come Out Of The Pro Bono Budget?
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s sponsorship of the Olympics cost it £10 million. The firm’s most recent...
Jags And Unpaid Interns: The Two Faces Of Fly-On-The-Wall Documentary Law Firm Tuckers
‘The Briefs’, the two-part ITV criminal law firm documentary which concluded last night, sparked rage...
City Lawyer Admits To ‘Trying It On’ With Woman On Edinburgh-London National Express Coach
There was a time, before the financial crisis struck, when City lawyers travelled by plane....
Feeling Important: Possible As a Trainee Solicitor?
TheTraineeComplex continues his bid to understand life as a City law firm trainee through reference...
For God’s Sake, Retire! Baby Boomer Partners’ Refusal To Quit Blocks Junior Lawyer Career Progression
The number of partners retiring has fallen by a third in the last 15 years,...
Cameron McKenna: Inhale The Good Shit, Exhale The Bullshit
Last week, The Lawyer reported that CMS Cameron McKenna is dropping the ‘CMS’ tag and...
Why The ‘Out Of Office’ Email Is Dead
I love holidays, but I hate missing opportunities. Unfortunately, the two often go hand in...
A G&T With @LegalTrainee Founder Izzy Abidi
Earlier this week I caught up with Eversheds trainee Izzy Abidi – the brains behind...
‘Does Grindr Count As An Extra-Curricular Activity?’
The other day, desperate for something memorable to put in the gaping ‘outside interests’ section...