Tag: Solicitors

Chair of legal super-regulator steps down with immediate effect
Personal considerations

SQE: Regulator issues new guidance on mitigating circumstances
Candidates have five days to make a claim and taking a holiday doesn’t count

Simmons & Simmons unveils new managing partner
Emily Monastiriotis will take over the top role on 1 May

Junior lawyers will be ‘significantly replaced’ by technologists and data scientists, Paul Weiss boss predicts
Top lawyer foresees shifting roles in new tech-driven legal world

Top US firm says GenZ lawyers require ‘more handholding’ at work
Suggestion appeared in a job ad for Gibson Dunn

SRA chief exec to step down
Ends 12-year tenure at the top

Former Walker Morris partner wins age discrimination claim after forced retirement at 63
Rules were intended to make way for younger lawyers

Freshfields expand US operations with new Boston office
Fourth in America

SRA reopens investigation into Business Secretary’s ‘solicitor’ claim
Regulator aware of ‘further information’

‘Should I work as a paralegal, or self-fund the SQE?’
Tough choice for soon-to-be law graduate

How to become a lawyer without the law firm
BARBRI business development director Emma Cavendish discusses qualifying in-house, developing commercial awareness and her advice for aspiring in-house lawyers

Business Secretary accused of falsely claiming he was a ‘solicitor’ — despite quitting training contract and never qualifying
Trained at Addleshaw Goddard before leaving to pursue a career in politics

Listed legal business RBG to be wound down after failing to appoint administrator
Stock Exchange announcement

Calls to lawyer wellbeing charity at all-time high
Over one third mentioned stress and anxiety, says LawCare

City law firms join forces to invest £4 million in climate action in Kenya
Will support reforestation projects in the Nandi region

Linklaters gives AI exam on English law
Results on the up, but human supervision still required