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Alternative careers: junior solicitor launches cat cafe to help stressed out...
Feline-themed venture by Maclay Murray & Spens lawyer could be purrrfect for beleaguered legal hopefuls Laura O’Neill only qualified in 2012, but she already appears to have aspirations beyond a...
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City firm tries to boost women partner numbers by getting female trainees to...
Herbert Smith Freehills’ new women trainee network is part of firm’s bid to make its partnership 30% female International giant Herbert Smith Freehills has launched a network to get its women trainees...
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Ex-Shearman & Sterling lawyer goes viral with YouTube rap
Unlikely social media sensation of the week … Veteran commercial lawyer Darryl Snider (pictured), who was once a senior litigation partner at the Los Angeles office of global behemoth Sherman &...
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95% of top law firms predict ‘massive consolidation’ over next two years
The firm you join as a trainee may not be the firm at which you qualify More mergers are on the way, despite the wave of law firm tie-ups that have already swept the legal market since the financial...
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The campaign for the trainee solicitor minimum salary is being resurrected
Battle to protect trainee pay not over yet The Junior Lawyers Division (JLD) of the Law Society is to launch a bid to re-instate the trainee solicitor minimum salary. Before it was scrapped last year,...
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Tadpoles and pigs play key role in high street law firm paralegal hiring policy
“Insult to intelligence” critical reasoning test pivotal in determining whether you’re up to the task of checking land registry searches at west country solicitors’ firm As if years of study and...
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An intellectual property firm has nicked a corporate law firm’s name
Like rain on your wedding day A website purporting to belong to a Chinese intellectual property law firm has set up shop at www.norton-rose-fulbright.com. www.norton-rose-fulbright.com is, naturally,...
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Junior lawyer battles food waste living on a pound a day for charity
Corporate law specialist at Trethowans in one-woman challenge against modern world laziness Lawyers are renowned for eating well — only last September magic circle pinstripes at Freshfields Bruckhaus...
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Guilty until proven innocent? Ministry of Justice mistakenly reverses the...
Top legal tweeters Mukul Chawla QC and David Allen Green call out MoJ The Ministry of Justice has been forced to withdraw a brochure which suggested that people were guilty until proven innocent after...
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Herbert Smith Freehills and Reed Smith both post retention rates of over 90%
International City giants will hang on to 93% and 91% of their trainees The London office of US firm Reed Smith — which offers 24 training contracts a year — has revealed that it is to keep on 12 out...
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Grayling Magna Carta party latest — win raffle to open a bridge
Highlight of Ministry of Justice’s controversial Global Law Summit to be a bottleneck of traffic in east London The latest wheeze to emerge from the Ministry of Justice’s international backslapping...
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‘Unexploited’ legal market gives lawyers chance to escape grind and become...
Corporate lawyer founder of Silicon Roundabout legal start-up on how he secured £260K investment — and why he sees market primed with opportunity for solicitors and barristers Despite working for six...
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Another woman is now in charge of a top City law firm
Ascent of Berwin Leighton Paisner’s Lisa Mayhew offers hope to female corporate lawyers The number of female leaders at top City law firms has risen again today after Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP)...
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What judges say Vs. what judges mean
“I consider this application, in accordance with the Overriding Objective” = “Eeeny-meeny-miney-mo” The language of the courtroom can be archaic, convoluted and sometimes simply baffling. For example,...
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Research: lawyers most sought after profession for affairs because they’re...
Solicitors and barristers in hot demand on infidelity dating websites Lawyers have bested politicians, salespeople and even actors to come out on top of a survey of the best profession to have an...
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England to consider gender neutral titles for solicitors after Scottish legal...
Land of kilts rule change could be followed south of the border The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) will consider gender neutral titles for solicitors if demand for the idea is expressed during a...
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Demystifying the City: 11 things that corporate lawyers do
Alex Aldridge distils the key points from Hogan Lovells’ Oxford University ‘Demystifying law in the City’ lecture, delivered earlier this week by lawyer and author Chris Stoakes This week Hogan Lovells...
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The Amal Effect: More wannabe human rights lawyers, but where are the jobs?
Soaring applications for human rights courses may not be good news Human rights has always been considered a difficult area of law in which to forge a career — and it may have just got more difficult....
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‘Drunk’ City law firm graduate recruiter tells wannabe solicitor that 2:1...
Strange goings-on at Trowers & Hamlins There is a surreal story doing the rounds this morning about a really weird telephone conversation between a wannabe trainee and a graduate recruiter at City...
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City firm coaxes all staff to embrace pro bono ethic by asking for 25 hours a...
Transatlantic giant Hogan Lovells launches bid to spread charitable works across all levels of its business — including trainees, and presumably dinner ladies too The London-based global law firm that...
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