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How approachable partners can make all the difference during your training...
Open plan office, team nights out and annual ski trip set the tone, RPC rookie tells Legal Cheek Careers Jonathan Greenway, a second seat trainee in RPC’s tax litigation team believes that students...
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Attorney General to throw Hawaiian ‘Summer Beach Party’ at government law...
Grass skirts at the ready An invitation to a “Hawaiian themed” beach party, purportedly from the attorney general and solicitor general, has surfaced online. The email invite — which we were able to...
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‘Mould and mice’: Students launch crowdfunding campaign to take legal action...
Pissed-off postgrads instruct top London law firm Image via CrowdJustice Students are gearing up to take legal action against the London School of Economics (LSE) over allegations poor living...
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Mid-size money movers: Farrer & Co, Harbottle & Lewis and Collyer Bristow...
Trainees also receive modest salary boosts Farrer & Co’s office A host of mid-sized London law firms have upped their young lawyers’ pay. Farrer & Co, a prestigious outfit nestled among the...
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13 articles you must read if you’re applying for training contracts this summer
They will strengthen your applications As we hurtle closer and closer towards training contract deadlines (law student D-Day), it can be all too easy to find yourself in a copy and paste application...
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What you don’t learn watching Suits
Ahead of the training contract application deadline, a Macfarlanes NQ, associate and partner discuss what they do on a deal During Legal Cheek’s recent Commercial Awareness Question Time, ‘Inside the...
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Freshfields partner who joined the firm in 1984 reveals he’s quitting to...
Competition litigation expert Jon Lawrence is Brick Court bound One of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s most experienced lawyers has revealed he’s leaving the magic circle outfit to pursue a career at...
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An open letter to training contract applicants everywhere
Being commercial can make up for a lot, but only if you understand what lawyers are selling Dear training contract applicants, Speaking to many of you at our events I’m often struck by your patchy...
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RPC posts solid 82% autumn retention result
NQs will be based in London, Bristol and Hong Kong RPC has unveiled an autumn 2017 retention score of 82%. The international law firm, best known for its high-end insurance work, has confirmed that 14...
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White & Case hit with record £250,000 fine over conflict of interest breaches...
A partner was also fined a further £50,000 White & Case has been hit with a mammoth £250,000 fine by the regulator after it accepted it had breached rules in relation to conflict of interest and...
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US outfit Vinson & Elkins rockets to very top of trainee pay table
Firm’s soon-to-be lawyers will earn £105,000 during their TC Vinson & Elkins, one of the first US firms to open a London office, has increased its London trainee and newly qualified (NQ) pay. First...
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A magic circle trainee’s ultra-sassy tweets have been exposed for all the...
‘Bruv I’ve been up 20 hours’ A magic circle trainee has been given a lesson in social media etiquette after her brilliantly candid tweets about lawyer life appeared on the pages of a legal blog. The...
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Four key moments from ‘How to make it as a City lawyer’
Last minute TC application gold At ‘How to make it as a City lawyer’ last month, four solicitors who’d entered the profession via a range of different routes told their stories to over 250 students. In...
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Dentons enters Scotland with Maclay Murray & Spens tie-up
The biggest law firm in the world just got bigger Global colossus Dentons has announced it will be swallowing up yet another law firm, this time in Scotland. Dentons, already the largest law firm in...
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8 tangible benefits that technology is bringing to law firms
Ahead of Pinsent Masons’ training contract application deadline on Friday, five lawyers and technologists at the famously tech-savvy firm consider how innovation is helping them At our recent ‘Lawyers...
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Watson Farley & Williams keeps all 15 autumn NQs
International outfit posts perfect 100% retention score Watson Farley & Williams (WFW) has confirmed that all of its 15 trainee solicitors have opted to stick around post-qualification. After...
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Face down those procrastination demons Fresh from his recent viral revision video success, Keele University law graduate Adam Mawardi is back with some last-minute training contract application advice....
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Mishcon de Reya’s autumn retention figure slumps to 64%
As Stephenson Harwood keeps 90% of its NQs Mishcon de Reya has confirmed a not so impressive 2017 autumn retention figure of 64%. The firm revealed that from a trainee cohort of 14, just nine have put...
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Grenfell Tower fire: Diane Abbott claims survivors are being harassed by...
MP complains to profession bigwigs Diane Abbott has claimed that “ambulance chasing” lawyers are leaving victims of the Grenfell Tower disaster feeling “intimidated”. In an email received by the Law...
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Kirkland & Ellis reveals 56% NQ retention result
Top paying global mega-firm sees autumn rate drop The London office of US outfit Kirkland & Ellis will retain just over half of its lawyers due to qualify this September. From a trainee cohort of...
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