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Global firm CMS kicks off fourth year of state school student law degree bursary
Scheme is designed to encourage sixth-formers from “disadvantaged backgrounds” to have a punt at legal profession Applications opened today for the fourth year of a global legal practice scheme aimed...
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Now there’s a mobile app that monitors and records human rights abuses
International lawyers group launches hi-tech tool in fight against tyrants and political fanatics Forget Tinder, Snapchat and Periscope — apps have just got serious, with the release of a tool that...
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Sacked Apprentice lawyer wants you to fund her business
Lauren Riley turns to crowd funding to boost her client-communications app One of the lawyers Alan Sugar sacked from last season’s Apprentice television hit is bidding for crowd funding to boost her...
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Freshfields chucks £500 pay rise at trainees as top partners take home nearly...
Latest magic circle player to update pay gives newly-qualified solicitors a big fat nothing First-year trainee solicitors at Anglo-German law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have been chucked a...
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Only one in five Britons with a legal problem in next three years will go to...
Research from uber-regulator exposes huge lack in access to justice for ordinary public Half of British punters will have a legal problem in the next three years, but only a fifth of them will instruct...
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White & Case ups London NQ pay by 20% to a whopping £90k
But flash New Yorkers still £10k off lead pace set by US rivals in Square Mile New Yorkers White & Case have put City of London rivals in the shade in this year’s junior lawyer pay round battle —...
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Drug use among lawyers and law students: take the anonymous Legal Cheek survey
Do you take illegal — or even “legal” — drugs? As the government prepares to criminalise a host of hitherto perfectly respectable products via its controversial Psychoactive Substances Bill — which was...
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Yesterday the government made it pointless to qualify into a legal aid law firm
The Ministry of Justice has announced a second round of cuts to crime specialist law firms, taking total to more than 17% in last year A government minister yesterday effectively spoke directly to...
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Media luvvie barristers in cat fight over alleged assault on London bus
Telly talking-head Sophia Cannon squares up against Doughty Street’s Tunde Okewale — with a phone hacking lawyer thrown into mix Two high-profile barristers are locked in an almighty scrap over whether...
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Canary Wharf law firm asks students to pay to do work experience
“You will be charged for us providing you this opportunity” A law firm based in the same Canary Wharf skyscraper as HSBC and JP Morgan is asking students to pay them to do work experience. Kawa...
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Exclusive Legal Cheek survey: 27% of lawyers take recreational drugs
And it’s not just a spliff round the barbecue — nearly 80% of users are keen on class-A gear More than a quarter of practising lawyers are taking recreational drugs, an exclusive Legal Cheek survey of...
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Social Mobility Commission slams law firms for rich kids bias
Unofficial “poshness test” which champions “talent” keeps riff-raff out of legal profession Graduate recruitment policies in place at most top law firms massively favour wealthy wannabe students, a...
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Podcast: Will Mayer Brown’s new earn-while-you-learn programme kill the...
Legal Cheek‘s Alex Aldridge chats to project mastermind Danielle White about a new way into the City that could change everything Earlier this month Mayer Brown gave the legal world a jolt as it became...
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PM hit with social media flack for Magna Carta banalities
David Cameron’s 800th anniversary message from windswept Surrey car park wins little more than derision Britain’s prime minister — or at least one of his keyboard flunkies — has had a busy time on...
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Smartphones have made overtime culture ‘endemic’ in law, finds research
Study released today blames phones and tablets for allowing partners to deprive associates of almost all sleep Depending on your age, they are either the curse of modern existence or its lifeblood —...
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Exclusive: Reed Smith hands qualifying solicitors modest 1.5% pay rise
Trainees at Pittsburgh-headquartered practice do better, bagging 4% rise to take them to £38,500 They do things at a slightly more conservative pace in Steel Town, USA. Which is why when the London...
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Male solicitors are paid 38% more than women at commercial law firms
The sisters are taking a huge hammering worth thousands of pounds, according to research released yesterday It pays to be a chap at corporate-commercial law firms, research released today illustrates,...
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Segregation attempt triggers social media outrage from the larger branch of legal profession It’s difficult to know where to start with this treasure trove of entertainment, all bundled into a couple...
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City lawyers pour cold water over proposed apprenticeship qualifying route
Professional regulators’ plans described as potentially weakening entry standards by not even requiring GCSEs Any sixth-formers currently harbouring notions of skipping university and law school to...
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Breaking news: Shearman & Sterling retains all 13 of its London trainees
New Yorkers are first off the blocks for the “autumn” newly-qualified retention figures New York “white shoe” practice Shearman & Sterling has retained all of its London trainee solicitors, the...
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