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What I’ve learned so far: Advice from a trainee loving City law life
Olivia Davies’ love of sport — and law — helped her secure a training contract at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, she tells Alex Wade. Since joining she has done seats in real estate and construction, and...
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Solicitor billed 68 hours in one day
She was also discovered living at a property purchased using the assets of a client estate A solicitor who billed 68 hours for one day’s work has been removed from the profession. Joanne Power, who was...
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Trowers & Hamlins manages just 57% autumn trainee retention as six rookies...
Disappointing Corporate law firm Trowers & Hamlins has released one of the lowest trainee retention rates of the year. Just 57% of Trowers’ qualifying trainees will remain with the firm, it has...
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6 things students need to know about insurance law and insurtech
RPC insurance specialists deliver insights on hot commercial awareness topic From left to right: Simon Laird, Daniel Guilfoyle and George Barratt At Legal Cheek’s student event last month, ‘Insurtech,...
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Meet the vlogging future magic circle trainee who has racked up nearly 3...
Bristol University law grad is closing in on 100,000 subscribers Eve Cornwell – image credit: @gabsek (Instagram) Future Linklaters’ trainee Eve Cornwell is the bringing law vlogging to the masses....
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We spoke to Herbert Smith Freehills pro bono associate Andrew Barton about...
Ahead of tomorrow’s ‘How lawyers can make a difference through pro bono and CSR — with Herbert Smith Freehills’ event, Andrew Barton talks about his career to date and why it’s important for lawyers to...
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Exclusive: Tycoon tried to source City training contract for businessman’s...
Fladgate, Macfarlanes and K&L Gates among firms approached without success, according to High Court judgment One of New Zealand’s wealthiest men tried to secure a training contract on behalf of a...
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Ex-Daily Mail editor defends newspaper’s decision to describe judges as...
‘The point needed to be made’, says Paul Dacre Paul Dacre The former editor of the Daily Mail has defended the newspaper’s decision to describe three prominent members of the judiciary as “enemies of...
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New solicitor super-exam ‘likely’ to cost between £3,000 –£4,500
But SRA delays implementation date until September 2021, one year later than previously proposed The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has revealed students will “likely” pay between £3,000 and...
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Legal Entrepreneurs: How a Schillings trainee made it to The Independent —...
Reviewed & Cleared CEO David Burgess shares what led him to leave his high-flying job and run a business David Burgess “When you’re selling, just give me a call,” David Burgess said to one-time...
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Hogan Lovells partner suspended after Irwin Mitchell lawyer filmed him...
Reported him to HR Irwin Mitchell’s office (left) and Hogan Lovells’ office (right) A partner in Hogan Lovells‘ London office has been suspended after a lawyer at a rival firm reported him for...
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Event: The growth of international law firms in the UK — with CMS in Sheffield
Tuesday 20 November at CMS’s Sheffield office International law firms are playing an increasingly important role in the UK’s key regional centres as they look to new opportunities beyond London. Their...
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The tension between innovation and regulation
Osborne Clarke lawyers discuss the big commercial awareness question of the moment Left to right: Ashley Hurst, Eleanor Locke and Catherine Hammon The digital revolution has given us tech giants with...
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Sidley Austin lawyer’s widow reveals how work pressures pushed her husband to...
Gabe MacConaill committed suicide in the carpark of the firm’s Los Angeles office last month Sidley Austin’s Los Angeles office The wife of a Sidley Austin partner who took his own life last month has...
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Junior solicitor whose hair fell out as she struggled to meet billing targets...
Sovani James handed two-year ban earlier this year for faking documents A junior solicitor who earlier this year was suspended from practice for forging legal documents in an attempt to show that a...
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First ever law scholarship for STEM students unveiled
STEM Future Lawyers joins forces with BPP University Law School to launch GDL scholarship for science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) students The first ever scholarship for science students...
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Eversheds Sutherland rolls out Facebook-style app letting lawyers ‘share,...
Firm’s staff can also request solutions to specific problems Eversheds Sutherland has rolled out a new Facebook-style app where lawyers can share, like and rate each others’ ideas, in a bid to make the...
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Solicitor dresses up as Legally Blonde’s Elle Woods for ‘best fictional...
Outfit included fluffy pup Keeley Lengthorn A solicitor has dressed up as Legally Blonde’s Elle Woods. Keeley Lengthorn, a family law partner at 27-office outfit McMillan Williams’ Bexleyheath branch,...
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Final legal advice on Brexit to be disclosed to MPs
‘Legal professional privilege’ gets rare airtime in Commons Not the Brexit legal advice It’s a lawyer’s nightmare: you pen a piece of legal advice intended for your client, written in a rush as you’ve...
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Event: How technology is changing law and business — with Addleshaw Goddard...
Leading lawyers share their experiences, future lawyers ask the questions On Thursday 29 November Legal Cheek is partnering with Addleshaw Goddard for an evening of commercial awareness discussion and...
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