Tag: Solicitors

Training and development: a tax lawyer’s experience
Travers Smith’s Sivanti Devakumar shares her career story and how high-quality work combined with the firm’s collaborative culture and supportive training environment is what made her join and stay

How aspiring lawyers can make the most of Instagram
Top tips courtesy of social media savvy solicitor Yasmin Khan-Gunns

Trainee solicitor gears up for aid mission to Syria
Brabners rookie Umar Tahir will distribute food and medical supplies to refugees

Travers boosts vac scheme pay by nearly 70% as it looks to get students back into the office this summer
£750 to cover week's expenses

LawTuber gives snapshot of life as a magic circle trainee
Vlogger Liam Porritt gives insights into his training contract one year in -- including why the dispute resolution department is the most 'Suits-esque' in nature

Willkie Farr increases NQ lawyer pay to £145k in London
Trainee salaries up too

Irish solicitor becomes unexpected TikTok star
Richard Grogan dishes out employment law advice to 100k+ followers

Revealed: Best law firms for legal tech 2022
How tech savvy are your favourite firms?

Eve Cornwell leaves fee-earning to take legal tech product manager role
Linklaters junior lawyer and YouTube sensation takes career in new direction

Ashurst boosts NQ pay to £105k
Silver circle firm moves rookie solicitor salaries into three figure territory

Should City lawyers subsidise their less high-earning boyfriends and girlfriends?
A question facing lots of rookie solicitors as they move in with their other halves, whose salaries are often much lower

From paralegal to lawyer at a listed law firm
Gateley senior associate Zum Mohammed shares her career journey

Revealed: The most eco-friendly law firms 2022
With the race to net-zero in full swing, Legal Cheek’s exclusive Trainee and Junior Lawyer Survey reveals which firms score highest for eco-friendliness

Legal Cheek’s most read stories of 2021
Crazy working hours, lockdown blues, uni rankings, NFTs -- and of course the usual dose of lawyers behaving badly

Your ultimate guides to training contract and pupillage applications this festive period
Legal Cheek careers resources reveal inside line on over 100 law firms and 50 chambers, and contain key graduate recruitment deadlines

Revealed: The law firms with the best perks 2022
From on-site swimming pools to freebie tickets; which corporate law firms offer the best perks?

Revealed: The best law firms for peer support and partner approachability 2022
From rookies staying late for each other to partners always being available for a chat — which firms are the friendliest?

What went down at the Legal Cheek-ULaw Winter 2021 Virtual Vacation Scheme
Lawyers share insights into practice areas including ESG, finance, legal tech, gaming and media law

Fresh salary rises see Weil trainees become highest paid in the City
£60k in year one, £65k in year two

Browne Jacobson offers up to 10 extra TCs with March 2022 start dates in response to workload boom
Emergency recruitment spree 🚨

A round-up of the best Xmas trees across the legal profession
From law firm lobbies to historic Inns of Court 🎄