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Clifford Chance teaches ALL trainee solicitors how to build apps
Magic circle rookies get their geek on in four-hour hackathon Clifford Chance has been quietly teaching all its new trainee solicitors how to produce mobile and web apps, Legal Cheek can reveal. The...
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Clyde & Co to offer six month data science seats to trainee lawyers
New TC option sees rookies work alongside machine learning engineers and computer whizzes from UCL Trainee solicitors at Clyde & Co will soon have the option to spend six months working within the...
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Lawtech could cull 35,000 legal roles by 2027, Law Society predicts
Secretaries hardest hit — but lawyer numbers likely to rise The Law Society of England and Wales has predicted a whopping decline in legal jobs by 2027 — thanks in part to the industry’s appetite for...
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The lowdown on US law firms in London
Shearman & Sterling lawyers give commercial awareness master class An audience of over 100 students recently gathered at the London office of Shearman & Sterling Four London-based solicitors at...
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SRA to make decision on SQE1 skills assessment in New Year
Feedback from spring pilot advised it be ditched A decision on whether or not to ditch the skills element of the first stage of the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) won’t be made until next...
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Embattled barristers ‘masquerading as sociopaths’ and stressed-out solicitors...
Radio show puts lawyer wellbeing under spotlight The embattled lives of criminal barristers and stressed-out solicitors got airtime last night on BBC Radio 4’s All in the Mind exploring why lawyers:...
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Lawtech and what it means for future lawyers
Experts from across the City share their insights Left to right: Russell Johnstone, Michael O’Donoghue, Mark Marfé, Shantanu Majumdar, Tara Waters and Jill Howell-Williams At Legal Cheek’s latest...
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Being innovative counts towards billable targets, CMS tells lawyers
Follows similar creativity-boosting moves by Reed Smith and Mishcon de Reya Lawyers at CMS have been told that time spent being innovative can count towards their billing targets. The international...
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Burges Salmon lawyers embrace election fever with office fancy dress
Jo Swinson looks unimpressed As election day fever hits the UK and millions of voters head to the polls, it may come as a surprise that we turn to corporate lawyers as a source of much-needed light...
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How technology is changing the business of law
Herbert Smith Freehills lawyers talk tech transforming the firm Left to right: Matt Goff, Kushal Bhimjiani, Ghislaine Nobileau and Jamie Ball “Every company is a technology company,” were the wise...
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Solicitor revealed as owner of ‘rip-off’ driving licence renewal website...
Property specialist Simon Button named in national newspaper A solicitor has left his job after his controversial side hustle was exposed in a national newspaper. Simon Button, 47, was outed by the...
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Revealed: The best law firms for peer support and partner approachability...
Winner to be announced at the Legal Cheek Awards on 26 March 2020, alongside a host of other categories From the eager to help trainee through to the accommodating senior partner, supportive colleagues...
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Freshfields investigations partner leaves firm after investigation
Exit comes in same week magic circle player moved step closer to introducing fines for misbehaving lawyers A partner at Freshfields has left the firm following an internal investigation into his...
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Four fintech predictions from four seriously clued-up lawyers
Practice area insight from experts at Linklaters Over 170 students attended the London office of Linklaters last month Bitcoins roasting on an open fire, Jack Dorsey nipping at your nose: it’s getting...
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Former Hill Dickinson solicitor leading race to replace Jeremy Corbyn as...
Rebecca Long-Bailey also worked for Pinsent Masons and the now defunct Halliwells Will Rebecca Long-Bailey finally update her LinkedIn profile if she lands the Labour Party leadership? An ex-corporate...
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Should junior City lawyers aim to save half their salary?
Rookie solicitors shouldn’t be ‘owned by their lifestyle’, says QC, as new MP, 23, pledges to give more than half of her salary to charity Many students go into law dreaming of changing the world, are...
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Five hot commercial awareness issues that future lawyers need to be thinking...
Lawyers from BARBRI, BCLP, Gowling WLG, Ropes & Gray and Squire Patton Boggs share their wisdom From the global economy to politics and tech; from changes to legal training to the mindset needed to...
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Richard Susskind: My case for online courts
Profession’s foremost technology expert offers up his digital vision of the future, in exclusive article for Legal Cheek If you plan to be a litigator, you should know that most disputes in the future...
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What Boris Johnson’s big majority means for the legal profession and those...
Focus on innovation, the North and alternatives to higher education could impact lawyers Original image via Snowmanradio A year ago a curvy blond had just been ditched by top QC Marina Wheeler and was...
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Royal Opera row: hedge fund lawyer guilty of assault after punching fashion...
Attack occurred during performance of Wagner Royal Opera House (credit: Simdaperce) An opera-loving lawyer has been convicted of assault after attacking a fashion designer during a dispute over a...
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