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Revealed: the areas of the country where trainee solicitors are paid the least
South West is best — avoid the rest, apart from the City Research has revealed which areas of the country you are least likely to be paid the Law Society recommended minimum salary as a trainee...
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Top City law firms criticised for failing to stay in touch with social...
Two-thirds of PRIME students had no further contact with their allocated firm A host of top City firms have been accused of not making enough effort to keep in touch with social mobility students after...
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Beyond corporate law: how to become a serious injury lawyer
Legal Cheek and Fletchers team up to hold careers advice session for students with leading solicitors and barristers Britain’s biggest clinical negligence and serious injury law firm is hosting a free...
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Why City law firms don’t need to keep in touch with work experience students
If they want to build ties, students should show some initiative and send an email To cries of indignation from the legal press, it was announced last week that the majority of PRIME diversity scheme...
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Simons, Muirhead & Burton partner embarrassed as ‘kufr’ video surfaces on...
Footage from 1997 shows London lawyer speaking at extremist group rally in Trafalgar Square A partner at top London outfit Simons, Muirhead & Burton has been left red-faced after a video of him...
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1,000-year-old tradition of recording laws on goat and calf skin hangs in...
Peers say scrap tradition in favour of £80,000 a year savings The 1,000-year-old tradition of recording laws on goat and calf skin hangs in the balance, with the House of Lords calling for the age-old...
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Five things you need to know before applying for a first year work experience...
If you are rejected, life is not over With global giant Norton Rose Fulbright having this year extended its first year open days into a week-long work experience scheme, First Step, the firm’s trainee...
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Tax City lawyers to help the legal aid crisis, says founder of top legal aid...
Human rights solicitor defends Michael Gove’s legal levy idea A leading human rights lawyer has spoken out in favour of the government’s planned levy on top corporate law firms, calling for 10% of...
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Impressive spring retention season continues as Osborne Clarke keeps on all...
Seven out of seven March qualifiers have committed their future to the international firm Osborne Clarke is the latest City law firm to unveil an impressive 2016 retention performance, keeping all...
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Solicitor super-exam could ‘devalue’ and ‘dumb down’ the law
Legal establishment comes out against plan to scrap LPC and open firms to non-graduates Legal big-wigs have spoke out against the proposed solicitor super-exam, claiming it could “devalue” and “dumb...
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The solicitors that took their chances on publishing and cake making —...
Legal Cheek meets the lawyers that bucked the trend and started up their own businesses Sometimes, it’s all too easy to forget that lawyers actually do things and have interests that don’t have...
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Wragge supervisor banned from working in legal profession after he sold law...
#Lawkward A supervisor at top City-based outfit Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co was left red faced last week, when he was slammed for selling his employer’s printer toner on eBay. Andrew Cook, from...
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Addleshaw Goddard and Maclay Murray & Spens cease merger talks
Merger mania: Olswang eyeing up Bird & Bird and Simmons & Simmons, meanwhile Berwin Leighton Paisner and Greenberg Traurig in talks Northern giant Addleshaw Goddard and Scotland’s largest...
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Macfarlanes continues bumper retention season posting perfect 100% spring score
All six Macfarlanes qualifiers have committed their future to the “silver circle” outfit Macfarlanes has revealed a perfect spring retention score of 100%, retaining all six of the trainees who are due...
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Silver circle takes on the magic circle as Macfarlanes boosts junior lawyer...
Single-office City firm chucks an extra £5,000 at its newly qualified lawyers Corporate outfit Macfarlanes is a silver circle firm with magic circle ambitions, upping junior lawyers’ pay packets to...
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Criminal law syllabuses to get makeover as Supreme Court gives landmark joint...
Felicity Gerry QC and Adam Wagner victorious as court changes the law This morning, the highest court in the land has sent Twitter into a social media frenzy as it gave its highly anticipated ruling on...
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Regulation that plagued family lawyers declared ‘invalid’ by Court of Appeal
Chris Grayling’s changes to rules on domestic abuse sufferers getting legal aid don’t stand up to scrutiny The Court of Appeal has this morning ruled that the government’s legal aid overhaul — which...
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Oxbridge students shun regional law firms
Oxford and Cambridge graduates make up less than 5% of trainees outside London Oxbridge students are shunning regional law firms in favour of large London outfits as they find themselves unable to...
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Lawyers with brilliant names you just couldn’t make up
From Cinderela and beyond The legal Twitterati have been tickled pink this week with news that there is an actual, real life judge called Cinderela Guevara. That there is an American judge called...
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The tabloid newspaper reporting of the Supreme Court joint enterprise ruling...
Misguided media riles lawyers Lawyers have formed a united front against shoddy legal news reporting, as the tabloid press took aim at the highest court in the land. Yesterday, Lord Neuberger — on...
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