Tag: Solicitors

Legal Cheek launches Hong Kong law firm guide
New careers resource features nearly 50 law firms on newly-launched HK website

Nearly two-thirds of legal contracts are ‘gender biased’, new research finds
Nearly two-thirds of legal contracts are 'gender biased', new research finds

Raab returns as Lord Chancellor in Rishi reshuffle
Brandon Lewis out weeks after striking barrister pay deal

How I came to negotiate multi-million-pound deals
Shoosmiths’ Michelle Craven-Faulkner shares her career journey from in-house transport lawyer to contract expert

Ex-Eversheds trainee banned from profession following sexual assault convictions
Thomas Hagyard was jailed for eight years last October

Rooney’s law firm Brabners launches ‘Wagatha’ podcast
Lawyers spill the tea on that libel trial

Bakers confirms SQE maintenance grant of up to £17k
Also boosts GDL and LPC support

Inside track: Completing a training contract at a global law firm
Ahead of Wednesday's virtual student event with Ashurst, Legal Cheek Careers speaks to trainee solicitor and panellist Asha Owen-Adams

Will Clifford Chance wave the Wharf goodbye?
Magic Circle player reportedly eyeing new Square Mile digs

Womble Bond Dickinson in merger talks with BDB Pitmans
Duo are in “early discussions”

Nailing a TC application, handling rejection and what it really means to be ‘commercially aware’
Clare Stapleton, The University of Law’s campus careers manager in Birmingham, speaks to Legal Cheek Careers, ahead of next week's IN-PERSON workshops and networking evening in the West Midlands

Top threats to UK law firms? Tech-savvy competitors, talent snapped up by rivals and the growth of US players, new report finds
Less worried about the 'Big Four'

Mistaking a partner for a vac schemer, deal-wrecking typos and costing clients thousands — lawyers annoymously share their TC blunders
“The sinking feeling when I realised the error was horrifying," one Reddit user wrote

How I used my background in neuroscience to make it as a lawyer
Bristows' Gregory Bacon on his transition from academia to IP and what STEM students can offer law firms

Shoosmiths imposes £200 ‘levy’ on lawyers choosing to travel by plane
Money goes to designated carbon fund

TC applications at Clifford Chance jump 50% since 2018
Magic Circle player publishes new eye-catching stats in a bid to help students "make the best choices for them"

My life as a green finance lawyer
Hogan Lovells' Andrew Carey maps out his career, ahead of tomorrow's virtual student event

Will legal tech doom the billable hours model for law firms?
Oxford University history student Lewis Ogg looks into the impact of legal tech on the way firms charge for their legal services, and calls time on billable hours

Squires introduces ‘all-in Thursdays’ in WFH policy shake-up
Change 'works for a majority of people', says firm

One energy lawyer’s journey from Nigeria to Leeds
Chisolu Obumneke-Okeke, an infrastructure, projects & energy associate at Addleshaw Goddard, discusses how this exciting area of the law brought him to the UK