Tag: Students

The Durham Uni law student pulling in City firm-levels of cash in return for dating sugar daddies

Final year law student earns £1,500 for between two or three "dates" a month

Feb 10 2015 9:38am

The Amal Effect: More wannabe human rights lawyers, but where are the jobs?

Soaring applications for human rights courses may not be good news

Feb 6 2015 9:04am

Student rage as hackers seize control of beloved law meme Facebook page

Hell hath no fury like a law student deprived of their memes

Feb 4 2015 2:05pm

Grayling Magna Carta party latest — win raffle to open a bridge

Highlight of Ministry of Justice’s controversial Global Law Summit to be a bottleneck of traffic in east London

Feb 3 2015 9:01am

Herbert Smith Freehills and Reed Smith both post retention rates of over 90%

International City giants will hang on to 93% and 91% of their trainees

Feb 2 2015 10:21am

Twitter shock at barrister’s triple ‘C-bomb’

Is senior junior at 1 Gray's Inn Square the most foul-mouthed lawyer on Twitter?

Jan 30 2015 9:54am

Tadpoles and pigs play key role in high street law firm paralegal hiring policy

"Insult to intelligence" critical reasoning test pivotal in determining whether you’re up to the task of checking land registry searches at west country solicitors’ firm

Jan 29 2015 12:34pm

The campaign for the trainee solicitor minimum salary is being resurrected

Battle to protect trainee pay not over yet

Jan 28 2015 10:56am

City firm tries to boost women partner numbers by getting female trainees to talk more about career development

Herbert Smith Freehills' new women trainee network is part of firm's bid to make its partnership 30% female

Jan 27 2015 9:43am

‘Law Undergraduate of the Year’ competition removes minimum A-level requirement after Twitter uproar

AAB requirement no longer applies, confirms City law firm sponsor

Jan 26 2015 2:45pm

Clifford Chance’s Aysh Chaudhry saga — a sad and salutary tale

Global mega firm caught between a rock and a hard place as fall-out from YouTube rant lingers

Jan 23 2015 8:17am

Dentons merges with China’s Dacheng to become the biggest law firm ever to grace the planet

London firm quiet on prospects for trainees in wake of China merger

Jan 22 2015 12:12pm

‘My day on a plate’: law student edition

Coffee, Red Bull, crisps, lager ...

Jan 22 2015 10:04am

University offers module in marijuana law

Legalisation of marijuana in Colorado set to spawn generation of weed lawyers

Jan 21 2015 1:25pm

The first City law firm trainee retention rate of 2015 has been released

Trowers & Hamlins' 82% figure bodes well, but it's early days yet

Jan 21 2015 10:30am

London office of US firm launches unpaid vac scheme-lite for first year students

Weil Gotshal & Manges cites an “increasingly competitive environment” in move to target ever-younger students, who will be working for free

Jan 20 2015 6:33pm

Inner Temple claims to have the best male talent

Debating society has rehashed Beach Boys track ‘California Girls’ to promote male hotties at the Inn

Jan 20 2015 9:24am