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Stock market listed law firm whose share price has tanked by 90% cuts jobs...
Slater & Gordon’s future lawyers unaffected by redundancies A raft of redundancies are set to hit personal injury giant Slater & Gordon (S&G), in a nightmare year that’s seen its share...
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10 insights into what it’s really like to be a City law firm trainee and how...
RPC’s ‘Life in a law firm’ project lifts lid on the rookie lawyer experience Ahead of the 31 January vacation scheme application deadline, the trainee solicitors who run RPC‘s @LifeInALawFirm account...
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Fast-expanding White & Case loses retention crown as trainee retention drops...
US firm’s London office fails to replicate perfect 2015 results New York-based megafirm White & Case has announced a spring trainee retention figure of 87% in London, failing to continue the 100%...
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Big Four accountancy giants are expanding their legal services arms globally...
EY now has lawyers in over 29 countries; while Deloitte Legal is cracking China The threat posed to City law firms by the accountancy Big Four “should not be underestimated”, according to a new report...
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Lawyers form united front against Supreme Court double-murderer decision...
Legal profession flexes its muscles, at the expense of freedom of speech A controversial Supreme Court ruling has given a double-murderer the chance to start his life again with a fresh identity —...
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Criminal lawyers rejoice: Grayling’s hated legal aid dual contracting system...
Lawyers ♥ Michael Gove Criminal solicitors around the country will be breathing a sigh of relief this afternoon, as at last the much-hated dual contracting system that threatened their livelihood has...
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Freshfields boosts top earning partner pay by 68% to £3.2 million – as...
And NQs got no pay rise at all The top earning lawyer at Anglo-German outfit Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer received an astonishing pay boost of 68% to £3.2 million, in the same year that trainees were...
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Global megafirm partner tells colleagues not to waste his time with ‘thank...
‘Ain’t nobody got time for that’ A partner at the New York office of Sidley Austin has blasted colleagues for sending ‘thank you’ emails. Paul Wysocki (pictured below), one of the firm’s top tax...
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SRA neglects to register Jones Day trainee lawyers for almost two years
*Regulatory facepalm* The 2015 qualifying cohort at the London office of US giant Jones Day were very close to not becoming lawyers at all, it has emerged. The close call was due to a registration...
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Pre-diversity era Freshfields graduate recruitment ad dredged up by law mag
1990 advert harks back to a different time A illustration of how much corporate law firm culture has changed over the last quarter of a century has surfaced online after a law magazine dredged up an...
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Mayer Brown announces 100% trainee retention as it opens applications for...
Global giant with dual route to qualification keeps 2016 kids International law firm Mayer Brown has announced that all four of its newly qualified (NQ) lawyers will remain at the firm, resulting in a...
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Mechanic jailed for 27 year for killing ex-Herbert Smith Freehills paralegal...
Trusted family friend murdered aspiring barrister in August 2015 A man has been jailed for 27 years for the murder and rape of a former Herbert Smith Freehills paralegal in her family home. Elizabeth...
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Facebook lawyers object to Belgian court order — because it contains English...
Social media giant’s legal team are concerned Belgians won’t understand terms such as “cookie” and “browser” Lawyers for Facebook are objecting to a Belgian court order demanding that the social media...
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A law firm that used to make trainees pay for law school is now covering the...
Partners at Fladgate flip broke students some cash — will other firms outside the City follow? Specialist commercial and private client outfit Fladgate has decided to follow the example of global...
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Countdown to completion: My four weeks of hell as a London corporate finance...
Three hours sleep and no social life — what the glossy graduate recruitment brochures fail to divulge An anonymous junior banking & finance lawyer practising at a firm in the City of London lifts...
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Law-themed cakes sweep the country as the Great Legal Bake proves a hit
Who said lawyers weren’t creative? The legal profession’s answer to the Great British Bake Off is happening this week — and it’s making us really hungry. The Great Legal Bake is a charity initiative...
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Berwin Leighton Paisner in merger talks with US giant Greenberg Traurig to...
BLPGT could become latest transatlantic giant City of London law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has revealed that it is in merger talks with US megafirm Greenberg Traurig. If they tie the knot, the...
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LSE-educated solicitor who trained at DLA Piper and then became a partner at...
David Benaim had it all — and then he blew it A lawyer who enjoyed a gilded career has been struck off after he fabricated documents in an attempt to cover up missing a crucial deadline. David Benaim,...
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China meltdown, Brexit fears and 100% trainee retention rates — what does it...
We tested two undergraduate law students on their commercial awareness Queen Mary University of London law students Tom Cooper and Liz Wong join Legal Cheek publisher Alex Aldridge on the first of our...
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Junior solicitor group campaigns against Brexit as City firm urges young...
Corporate lawyers get into referendum spirit A group of rookie corporate lawyers have a launched a campaign to dissuade the nation from leaving the EU, as the UK arm of a transatlantic law firm seeks...
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