Tag: Training contracts

There are nearly 4,000 more solicitors on the roll now than there were just after the Brexit referendum

But the number of lawyers with practising certificates has actually gone down

Jan 26 2017 10:48am

The wretched Watson Glaser test and why I think it should be scrapped

Why do grad recruiters still use the 85-year-old test?

Jan 24 2017 9:47am

King & Wood Mallesons Global launches in London – a day after UK arm goes under

New firm “not presently” taking old firm trainees

Jan 18 2017 12:06pm

Legal Cheek talks… are trainees paid enough?

The haves and the have nots

Jan 13 2017 3:02pm

Exclusive: King & Wood Mallesons to cancel all training contracts TOMORROW in prep for administration

Rookies to work as paralegals at new firms until SRA re-registers them

Jan 12 2017 8:58am

Vac scheme applications Christmas stocking

More useful than chocolate and satsumas

Dec 23 2016 9:59am

Exclusive: Magic circle and other top City law firms to take on all of King & Wood Mallesons’ trainees

And stricken giant's future trainees being pointed to priority TC vacancies

Dec 20 2016 10:53am

Low grades caused by health problems, what will law firms think?

I'm back on track now but worried the damage has already been done

Dec 19 2016 11:19am

CMS breaks silence on training contract deferrals… two weeks after Legal Cheek broke the story

Firm denies it has upped compensation payments in wake of online backlash

Dec 7 2016 9:02am

Legal Cheek talks… deferred training contracts and Supreme Court attacks

Katie King and Tom Connelly reflect on CMS Cameron McKenna's £8,000 gap year deal and the tabloids' campaign against top judges

Nov 28 2016 9:54am

CMS offers future trainees cash to defer training contracts for 12 months

Exclusive: Firm to fund gap years as fallout from three-way merger with Nabarro and Olswang hits

Nov 24 2016 8:51am

Do I stand a better chance of getting a training contract if I look like Kim Kardashian?

I won’t fit in if the legal profession is that superficial

Nov 1 2016 10:27am

Baker & McKenzie gives Belfast-based training contracts the green light

International giant will take on its first trainees next September

Oct 27 2016 1:10pm

Are my plans for securing a training contract too cheeky for the legal profession?

Unacceptable brashness or praiseworthy initiative?

Oct 19 2016 11:44am

Legal Cheek talks… winter vac schemes

Shearman & Sterling graduate recruitment chief Paul Gascoyne and trainee solicitor Danielle Altink share their pearls of wisdom with Legal Cheek’s Tom Connelly and Katie King

Oct 18 2016 11:16am

Clifford Chance cuts UK training contract numbers drastically

Magic circle firm to recruit 20 fewer trainees

Sep 20 2016 11:01am

Was I wrong to accept my legal assistant role?

Maybe I should've headed straight for a training contract

Sep 13 2016 12:37pm