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Exeter Uni students boss this year’s Clifford Chance ‘CV Blind’ competition
Exclusive: Students from Russell Group institution net 20% of vac scheme places awarded through scheme, but overall winner is from LSE Students from Exeter University have bagged four out of the 20 vac...
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Striking again — court defeat over legal aid cuts could see barristers back...
Judges back government plans for massive cuts in number of legal aid law firms, reigniting fears that law students wanting a career in crime … will have to rob banks The prospect looms again of...
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Revealed: How law schools’ websites looked at the dawn of the millennium
Throwback Thursday: A journey back in time through the World Wide Web — law school edition Cambridge — 1997 So bad it’s good BPP — 2000 Stock image heaven Nottingham — 1999 Bleak Queen Mary — 1998...
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Pinsent Masons retains 79% of qualifying trainees
Latest City firm to put qualifying young bloods out of their misery is keeping 15 of its spring 2015 round City-based global law firm Pinsent Masons — which takes on 75 trainees a year — has offered...
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Saul Goodman-style mavericks vs straight-A golden children: who will be the...
Debt-burdened wannabe litigators could yet exert influence on direction of grades-obsessed profession through new routes like the paralegal shortcut Up until the financial crisis some students with...
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Google Street View shatters law firm’s delusions of grandeur
Never judge a law firm by its website The office buildings pictured on the website of Manchester law firm Themis Lawyers … Themis Lawyers’ offices on Google Street View … Hat tip to RollOnFriday. The...
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CMS Cameron McKenna waves good-bye to 38% of spring NQs
CMS Cameron McKenna has kept just 16 of its 26 spring newly-qualified cohort, posting a comparatively woeful retention rate of 62% The English branch of mega-global franchised law firm CMS takes on 80...
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University of Law beats rivals to bag first teaching law firm licence
Nottingham left to lick its wounds as the country’s biggest law school is awarded alternative business structure status Europe’s biggest law school has stolen a march on its English competition in the...
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Law firms run Oxbridge recruitment targets as high as 50% of trainees, says...
A senior Law Society figure claims unofficial bias in favour of elitism remains rife among City and large commercial firms Many City law firms unofficially insist that up to half their trainees are...
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Clifford Chance lawyers prepare to swap their suits for hoodies that are...
No, it’s not 1 April yet — this is legit Clifford Chance is arranging for a new colour-coded hoodie design to be rolled out to its lawyers after a fashion student wowed the firm with her designs....
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Access to Freshfields’ new Manchester office is through a shopping centre
Lawyers at esteemed magic circle firm will be able to grab fast-food and trainers en route to work Since last month magic circle powerhouse Freshfields has been on the hunt for offices in Manchester....
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Lawyer left red-faced in Facebook advert typo
Today’s *face palm* award goes to a US lawyer in Maryland — but, hands up, it could happen to any of us … US criminal defence lawyer John Turnbull III’s venture into Facebook advertising hasn’t gone...
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Newly-qualified retention latest: Simmons clocks up 80%
City firm hangs on to 12 of 15 freshly minted solicitors — and places one in house Simmons & Simmons is the latest City law firm to win or break hearts with the announcement of how many qualifying...
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Judges give Grayling a special birthday present — another High Court defeat
Justice Secretary gets slapped down again, this time over prisoner transfer reforms – but happy b-day, nonetheless, Chris This is not an April Fools’ parody — although it might feel like a cruel joke...
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The lamps went out all over legal London today
Power cut brings chaos to lawyer-land, but several brave souls manage to get down the pub Lawyer implacability was superbly highlighted on Twitter this afternoon, as an electrical fire in London’s...
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Global law firm apologises for April Fool promising better work-life balance
Associates at Weil Gotshal’s offices around the world are fuming at ham-fisted bid by the senior partnership to take the piss out of work-life balance issues Law firms talk a lot of rubbish about...
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Lawyer to take part in arctic rugby world record attempt
Eversheds associate will strap on his snow shoes and trek 100 miles to play rugby at the north pole in charity world record attempt Eversheds’ real estate specialist lawyer Andrew Walker is less than a...
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The Judge rules: thank-you, Weil, for exposing work-life balance charade
Big law firms should be honest with their junior lawyers about what life is like at a top-tier practice: the money is great but it’s hard work The mask has slipped. For more than a decade, global law...
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8 top English uni law faculties dropped from Singapore bar approved...
Cries of protectionism ring out as Russell Group stars are axed Eight leading English university law faculties are up in arms after they were removed from the Singapore bar’s list of approved...
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These aren’t drafting tips … Prof sends students anal beads porn link in...
Philadelphia law school of many expensive names investigates how a link to Porn Hub was included in helpful guide to students On this side of the Atlantic, four hapless and now former judges were in a...
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