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Allen & Overy moves to reassure junior lawyers after rookie is ‘hospitalised...
Firm is ‘monitoring the impact of workloads’ Magic circle giant Allen & Overy has stated that it “takes the wellbeing of our people very seriously” after a report emerged this morning of an...
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Nurses, teachers and police among professions more ‘trusted’ than lawyers,...
Politicians rock bottom in annual index The general public find nurses, teachers and police officers more trustworthy than lawyers, new research has revealed. This year’s Ipsos MORI Veracity Index —...
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Herbert Smith Freehills trainees reveal how they are engaging with lawtech
As firm’s director of knowledge and learning emphasises importance of client facing skills Two trainees at Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) have given an insight into how they are using technology to work...
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Judgment reserved: Ex-Clifford Chance trainee suing Oxford Uni faces wait...
High Court success could pave the way for further claims Image credit: Instagram (@_piezaini_) An Oxford graduate who claims that “inadequate” teaching cost him a lucrative career as a high-flying...
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Event: The skills future lawyers need for the new digital world — with RPC,...
Apply to attend the final Commercial Awareness Question Time of 2017 With the government’s new industrial strategy placing a strong emphasis on technology, law firms are looking ahead to consider what...
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From Holiday Banta to Debra Smilley-Weiner: The lawyers with the funniest names
Weird and wonderful Lawyers, despite being a stereotypically dull and conservative profession, sometimes have really, really great names. Last year we brought you an article listing some of the best,...
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Prove you’re taking steps to end sexual harassment at work or risk legal...
Warning comes in wake of Hollywood and Westminster scandals Magic circle firms are among a raft of top businesses warned they risk facing legal action if they fail to appropriately deal with sexual...
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The lawyers at the frontline of AI, fintech and drones
Look beyond the hype and there is potential for real change, say Osborne Clarke experts “We are picking off the low-hanging fruit at the moment in terms of what artificial intelligence (AI) can do,”...
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‘Hear ye, hear ye!’ Bud Light lawyers use town crier to deliver cease and...
And he read from a calligraphy-covered scroll Lawyers at the largest brewing company in United States called on the services of a town crier to deliver what will surely go down as one of the greatest...
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Westminster law graduate set to make a million after choosing celebrity...
Twenty-five times more than she would have earned as a trainee An aspiring corporate lawyer’s decision to put her solicitor career on hold has really paid off: she’s now favourite to win I’m A...
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Trainee solicitor who used client cash to ‘cover up mistakes’ removed from...
Training contract pressure? A trainee solicitor who used client funds to “cover up” a string of mistakes has been removed from the profession. Holly Johnson, from Manchester, has been handed a section...
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How competing in the Grand Prix Challenge can be a speedier route to a...
Applications for Norton Rose Fulbright’s competition close next month Crazy about all things fast and furious? In partnership with its client McLaren, each year Norton Rose Fulbright selects five...
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Slater & Gordon: The tale of the battered and bruised personal injury giant
From stock market first to major recapitalisation deal — and everything in between In 2007, amid much fanfare, personal injury giant Slater & Gordon (S&G) became the first law firm in the world...
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Forty STEM students headed to Reed Smith’s Innovation Hub to tackle a data...
This is what we learnt from observing them They say that data is the oil of the 21st century. Certainly the signs are that lawyers are awakening to its value, guided by the likes of Facebook and...
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What it’s like to do a secondment with Google as a junior lawyer
Ahead of ‘The skills future lawyers need for the new digital world’ tomorrow, Legal Cheek Careers meets RPC’s Stuart Harris “In-house secondments put you inside the mind of the client and make you...
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‘Do they understand us?’ Grenfell victims’ lawyers attack inquiry for lack of...
Black QC’s warning of ‘injustice’ goes viral Leslie Thomas QC Lawyers representing victims of the Grenfell Tower fire, in which 71 people were killed, have mounted a sustained attack on the perceived...
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‘Unfailingly courteous’: Top lawyers highlight human decency on the bench
Barristers take to Twitter to swap stories of their judicial faves Senior judges are keen to remind the public that, underneath the wig and gown, they are only human. That judges ain’t robots is made...
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Four valuable skills that STEM students bring to the legal profession
Experts from LexisNexis, Bristows, Reed Smith and Allen & Overy share their views At our recent event, ‘Why STEM students make great lawyers’, held with LexisNexis in central London, experts from...
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Research: The firms that offer the most international secondments 2017-18
✈️☀️ As part of this year’s Legal Cheek Trainee and Junior Lawyer Survey, we asked over 2,000 trainees and junior lawyers at the leading UK firms about the opportunities they’d had to spend time abroad...
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Five good things about US law firms that don’t involve money
We all know they pay well, but what else do they offer? At Legal Cheek’s recent ‘Why US law firms are thriving in London’ event at BARBRI in London, solicitors from Shearman & Sterling and Ropes...
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