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Why I don’t want to become a partner
Yes I’m a City lawyer, but the gruelling hours just aren’t for me Once upon a time, the dizzying heights of partnership were what law students, trainees and associates all desperately aspired to reach....
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White & Case boosts London NQ pay packets by 17% to £105,000
Trainees will trouser an extra £2,000 New York-based megafirm White & Case has upped the pay packets of its London-based newly qualified (NQ) lawyers to £105,000. With junior lawyers until today...
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Birmingham University vlogger beats 1,000 students to win trip to HSF’s Hong...
Watch Laura Kendrick’s video — and those of the five other extremely impressive finalists — below A final year law student has clinched victory in Herbert Smith Freehills’ (HSF) ‘Too Good to Miss’...
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Junior lawyer who led march against £9k tuition fees when he was at Cambridge...
Former SU president will be voting in line with majority of rookie lawyers surveyed in Legal Cheek General Election poll A City solicitor who in his uni days was instrumental in the march by 50,000...
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I’m a UK law grad working as a paralegal in the Caribbean before starting my...
Sun, sea, scuba diving and… stimulating legal work It all suddenly fell into place for Alex Gays last summer. After two years of applying for legal roles with limited success, two great opportunities...
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Exclusive: Freshfields trainees bemoan lack of PA support as firm braces for...
Claims of longer hours and greater uncertainty hit magic circle giant Trainees at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer are fuming about an overhaul of the firm’s personal assistant (PA) policy that some are...
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Six legal tech start-ups selected for Mishcon de Reya’s innovation incubator
They will spend ten weeks at the City outfit’s new ‘MDR LAB’ Mishcon de Reya has revealed the identities of the six legal tech start-ups joining its ‘technology incubator’. In collaboration with...
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Baker McKenzie partner attacked at train station, law student jumps in to help
Now John Rowley wants to find the have-a-go hero so he can say thank you Credit: Stephen Tschida(@ABC7Stephen) The search is on to find the good Samaritan law student who defended a law firm partner...
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This solicitor has one of the best LinkedIn profiles we’ve ever seen
Sham Uddin even hosts his own comedy show Legal Cheek has stumbled across the LinkedIn page of solicitor and barrister Sham Uddin, and we’re very glad we did. A lawyer at Hamstead Law Practice in...
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Is the bar’s appeal to the best graduates destroying the magic circle?
In America the top legal talent joins law firms — but not always in Britain London’s elite law firms are being fatally weakened in their battle with top US rivals by the attraction of the bar to the...
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Distance learning: desirable or a disadvantage?
I live in Hong Kong, but my law school is in London Hong Kong/London In the latest instalment in our Career Conundrums series, one aspiring solicitor questions whether studying abroad, but at a UK...
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Baker McKenzie lawyer reunited with have-a-go hero law student who helped him...
John Rowley urges the final year to follow in his footsteps and become a prosecutor John Rowley and Andrew Miller A Baker McKenzie lawyer attacked at a Washington train station has been reunited with...
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A Latham & Watkins lawyer is standing for UKIP in the general election
Tim Page is counsel at the US giant’s London office Devizes in Wiltshire A City lawyer at one of world’s most prestigious law firms is standing for the UK Independence Party (UKIP) in next month’s...
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The Trial: Lawyers react to new docudrama starring real QCs and an ex-Old...
‘First major inaccuracy, it started on time’ John Ryder QC and junior barrister Lucy Organ The legal Twitteratti was out in force yesterday evening as Channel 4’s new docudrama starring real lawyers...
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Why junior lawyers shouldn’t be afraid of AI, by a law student
We shouldn’t waste the abundance of opportunities out there With tech becoming more and more advanced by the day, there’s a fear among law students that training contracts will be cut and law firm...
View Article‘Don’t make snap decisions too soon’, SRA tells aspiring solicitors...
Exclusive video interview: Legal Cheek speaks to the regulator’s director of education and training Julie Brannan, director of education and training at the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), has...
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London Legal Walk: Lawyers descend on sun-soaked capital for annual 10km...
Here are some of the best bits Lawyers from across the United Kingdom descended on Chancery Lane yesterday afternoon for the start of this year’s London Legal Walk. Organised by the London Legal...
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Social media fumes as female QC caught having rush hour romp with male...
The SRA has confirmed it will not bring disciplinary action against him It has been reported today that the female QC caught in a sex tryst with a City lawyer during London rush hour will have her...
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Cambridge college names first female head in its 700-year history, and she’s...
She did her training contract at Clifford Chance Dr Pippa Rogerson – image via Twitter (@CaiusCollege) A top University of Cambridge college has announced its first ever female head, and she’s a law...
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Nottingham Trent’s student-staffed ‘teaching law firm’ launches commercial...
Legal centre was handed an ABS licence by the SRA in 2015 Nottingham Law School’s pioneering law clinic has entered the commercial legal services market for the first time, with the launch of a...
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