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Top global law firm’s London office has anti-homelessness spikes
Despite Latham & Watkins’ work with homelessness charity Centrepoint, the firm’s office has spikes outside to keep away rough sleepers. The anti-homelessness spikes controversy has reached the...
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Young London lawyer scoops prize — then lambasts ministers over legal aid cuts
Winning the Legal Aid Practitioners Group newcomer award, Birnberg Peirce solicitor describes state of system as a “disaster”. “This is the worst time ever to try to be a legal aid lawyer.” That blunt...
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Under-publicised scheme which pays almost a third of wannabe lawyers’...
City law firm’s bursary for state school students who are the first generation in their family to go to uni pays £2,500 a year — and application requires only a 750-word essay. Applications for a...
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Lawyers celebrate anniversary of Magna Carta with a #Jelfie
What better way to mark the anniversary of the ancient charter of the liberties of England — which turned 799 yesterday — than with a “jelfie” (justice selfie)? Here are a selection to get you in the...
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In-house lawyers have been re-branded ‘legal ninjas’
Silicon Valley software company Palantir doesn’t have in-house lawyers, it has “legal ninjas” — and it wants to find one in London, where the term will surely never catch on… In the anything-goes world...
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4 things you absolutely must do during a vac scheme
As work experience season gets underway, a law student, a trainee and a City firm graduate recruiter share their experiences of vac schemes at Hogan Lovells, Mayer Brown and Norton Rose Fulbright. 1....
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Law Society rife with bullying and discrimination, but at least it’s got...
Solicitors’ representation body in desperate bid to steady ship as search to replace chief executive drowns in jargon and rivalries If only the role and purpose of the Law Society of England and Wales...
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11 eyebrow-raisingly honest tweets from Reynolds Porter Chamberlain’s...
15 hour days and “being sent to buy lingerie on the weekend”: trainee solicitors reveal what life at big law firm is really like. Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC) has had the confidence to leave its...
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You can be a lawyer and simultaneously live your childhood Indiana Jones dream
Combining law firm marketing with action hero role-play. It is 33 years since Harrison Ford swashbuckled across film screens as the whip-cracking Indiana Jones in Steven Spielberg’s ‘Raiders of the...
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Workload and client expectations are by far the biggest causes of stress for...
60% of stressed solicitors say volume of work is the problem; 42% cite client expectations. A survey by the Law Society has found that workload and client expectations are by far the biggest causes of...
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8 reasons that lawyers are like condoms
“It’s the fruity ones which are the most fun? No, wait…” Legal message board RollOnFriday — the beloved haunt of laddish City law firm partners who should probably know better — spent last week in the...
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Phone hacking lawyer’s Twitter gets hacked — and he becomes most followed...
Tens of thousands of fake followers descend on Mark Lewis after — irony of ironies — his Twitter account is hacked. A few months ago phone-hacking lawyer Mark Lewis had around 3,000 Twitter followers....
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Solicitor under fire for calling Alex Salmond an ‘ars*hole’
War of words rages north of the border — and perks up independence debate — following inflammatory tweet A prominent Glasgow lawyer has sprayed oil on the referendum debate north of the border by...
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Wonga fake law firms — where did they get those names?
Parody accounts already alive on Twitter as pay-day lender coughs up millions in compensation. Boardroom executives at Newcastle United FC will be having third or fourth thoughts today about their...
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Wannabe solicitor with murder conviction is allowed to do the LPC
High Court clears way for Selwyn Strachan — who was released from prison in Grenada in 2009 after Amnesty International slammed his “fatally flawed” trial — to become a solicitor. The High Court has...
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Hashtag hilarity: #FakeWongaLawFirms
Following Wonga’s creation of fake law firms Chainey, D’Amato & Shannon and Barker & Lowe, Twitter users have been having some fun with the #FakeWongaLawFirms hashtag. Here are a selection. See...
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Law graduate launches bid to crowdfund her LPC in return for Twitter follows...
London-based wannabe solicitor seeks to raise £15,000 An aspiring lawyer who covered the cost of her law degree through online stripping has launched a crowdfunding campaign to pay her Legal Practice...
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Which last 16 World Cup team is your law firm?
Brazil 2014 legal geekery: striking parallels revealed. Holland = Slaughter and May Slaughter and May’s brand of obsessively attentive client service and exhausting commitment to excellence is clearly...
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The best photos from London Legal Pride
Saturday’s gay pride celebration saw a record 30,000 revellers march through central London. Among them was a large contingent from the legal profession. This year’s theme was “#freedomto“. Here is the...
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We need to talk about paralegals
The children of the financial crisis could pose a danger to law firms if their ambitions aren’t accommodated. There is an amusing quote in the Legal Education and Training Review (LETR) report from a...
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