Tag: Solicitors
Lawyers Are Like Meerkats And Naked Vole Rats, Claims Ex-Freshfields Managing Partner
Thought that corporate law was all about the survival of the fittest and the drive...
Making Sense Of The Mixed Messages About The Graduate Legal Job Market
On Monday I read a piece in The Lawyer about the encouraging recent trainee retention...
ADVICE: Are Big Law Firms Still Old Boys’ Clubs?
I received this email from a prospective Open University law student the other day… My...
TRENDS: Clients Demand ‘Themed Dances’ As Competition Hots Up In Recession Hit Legal Services Market
Solicitors have been offering additional extras for a while now as they bid to ‘add...
COMPETITION: 2,000 Words On Legal Education Wins £500, 500 Words Wins a Matching Cap And T-Shirt Set…
The Junior Lawyers Division of the Law Society (JLD) has launched an essay competition for...
Get a Training Contract Or Get Deported: The Fate Of The Foreign Law Graduate In The UK
If, like me, you’re not British or European and are applying for training contracts, you...
A Neat Solution To The Legal Education And Training Puzzle
At the end of the Legal Education and Training Review (LETR) symposium yesterday, I got...
Having Your Training Contract Delayed By 12 Months Is An ‘Opportunity’, Claims Wragge & Co Managing Partner
On Saturday, I received this private message on Twitter.
‘How Will I Ever Come Out In Front Of Partners Who Say: ‘I Can’t Watch One Foot In The Grave Because That Richard Wilson Is Gay’?’
The words of solicitor-advocate and Law Society council member Keith Etherington, as he recalls how...
Yet Another No Show: The ‘Personal Reasons Beyond Their Control’ Blighting Celeb Lawyers’ Lives
“Ooh, Baroness Helena Kennedy QC will be speaking,” I thought as I read the flyer...
‘Employees Too Stressed To Eat Or Sleep’: Ex-Freshields Lawyer Goes Public On Life In The Magic Circle
The high wages paid by City law firms are a kind of “risk money” to...
Allen & Overy Solicitor Says It’s OK To Lie On Your CV
Allen & Overy solicitor Sheila Fahy has unwittingly provided wannabe magic circle lawyers with an...
‘Do You Want To Be Kodak Or Instagram?’
Legal Cheek tech columnist i@n davison reviews Friday’s LawTechCampLondon. Do you want to be Kodak...
Lawyers, Did You Ever Wish You Had Become Rappers? Well, It’s Not Too Late: You Could Still Do a Rap About Law
And as Eminem wannabe Michael Bossone proves in this video of his new single ‘Push’...
ADVICE: ‘Which Training Contract Offer Should I Accept?!’
UPDATE 4pm: XXX chose the London firm LPC graduate XXX XXXX (name removed) is facing...
‘Describe Your Parents Relationship’: Law Firm’s Interview Question To Training Contract Candidate
EXCLUSIVE: You hear all sorts of stories about partners asking outrageous, Borat-style questions during TC...
Which Legal Tweeters Have Bought Their Twitter Followers?
Until I read recently that 92% of US politician Newt Gingrich’s Twitter followers had been...
From Halliwells To BLG To Clyde & Co To Buddhism In Two Years: A Trainee’s Journey In A Shaky Legal Market
Marc Piano says Halliwells’ collapse contributed to his decision to pursue some time out practising...
Five Things We Learned From The Lawyer Awards
The food (pictured below) was cold, the award presentations seemed to go on forever and...
Are Barristers The Doctors Of The Legal Profession, And Solicitors The Nurses?
Last week there was outrage on The Student Room when a poster likened barristers to...
PODCAST: Laying Down On a Bed Of Norton Roses
Success can turn on the smallest of things. Cambridge graduate Marta Sanchez (pictured left) completed...