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‘Our job as litigators is to create risk for the other side’
Ahead of tomorrow’s ‘Commercial Awareness Question Time’, RPC partner Simon Hart considers the skills needed to resolve City disputes Even after all these years, I still love receiving a new case. As a...
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Lawyers club together to celebrate high achieving females on International...
A snippet of some of the best tweets Today is International Women’s Day, a chance for the world to reflect on and celebrate the achievements of women across the world. As expected, eminent lawyers were...
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Video: ‘Oh bollocks!’ MP’s outburst over suggestion that Brexit will cost the...
Former justice minister Jonathan Djanogly’s suggestion didn’t go down well with one MP Conservative MP Michael Fabricant (pictured above) has apologised after responding “oh bollocks” when it was...
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Cheeky tenants add unexpected birthday cake contract clause into their lease
Was it the work of sneaky law students? Two mischievous tenants have taken the Internet by storm this week by making an unwittingly brilliant amendment to their rental lease agreement. The pair were...
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Gove ditches plan to have City lawyers subsidise courts
City tax was floated to replace cash generated from the controversial court charge ditched last year A Robin Hood-style tax on top City law firms to help fund the criminal courts’ system has been...
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5 reasons you should become a law firm campus ambassador
And it’s not just the guaranteed vac scheme interview Ahead of the Hogan Lovells‘ campus ambassador application deadline on Friday, Durham University second year law student Rhianna Eden explains what...
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FinTech: The hot new practice area primed for young lawyers to make their mark
Norton Rose Fulbright’s Victoria Birch is one of the pioneers As bailed-out banks battled to come to terms with a less forgiving world in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, a host of tech start-ups...
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Once they were lawyers… Marcel Proust
The great French writer had a law degree — and that’s not all Many lawyers go on to do other things with their lives — so many that it’s almost as if there might be life after the law. Legal Cheek will...
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Linklaters hikes pay to US firm levels — with new qualifiers on up to £91k
Firm leapfrogs magic circle rivals … and its lawyers will get a day off on their birthdays Newly qualified (NQ) lawyers at magic circle giant Linklaters could now pocket as much as £91,000, in a move...
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Negative responses to solicitor super-exam consultation to see proposal modified
There may be life in the old LPC yet The battle to replace the Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) and the Legal Practice Course (LPC) with a solicitor super-exam has taken a new twist — after most of the...
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Top law firm partner accused of having trainees edit his celebrity-style...
Pennington Manches “not aware” of rookies being asked to create material to bolster solicitor’s profile A partner at Pennington Manches with an extremely impressive Wikipedia page has been accused of...
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New York lawyer who used forged documents to land pupillage at top London...
Real life Suits A New York lawyer who landed a pupillage at a leading London barristers’ chambers has been disbarred after it emerged she had forged references and qualifications to create an...
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Baker & McKenzie boosts newly qualified lawyer pay to £70,000
First year trainees will also walk away with £3,500 extra The London office of global outfit Baker & McKenzie has increased its newly qualified (NQ) pay by £5,000. Fresh-faced associates at the...
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Brexit would trigger exodus of UK lawyers to re-qualify in Ireland, say experts
It’d be the only way for British solicitors and barristers to do anything EU law-related at a decent level A vote to leave the EU would see barristers hopping over in droves to Ireland and other member...
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Linklaters keeps hold of 45 out of 54 qualifying trainees
Retention rate of 83% for offerer of most training contracts in the City Magic circle giant Linklaters has just posted a pretty good (if not quite magical) retention rate — keeping hold of 83% of its...
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Staggering 99.9% conviction rate in China revealed
An ode to Chinese defence lawyers Think UK defence lawyers have it tough? Spare a thought for those over in China, where the courts have a 99.9% criminal conviction rate. Of the 1.2m plus people that...
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Brexit or Bremain? Take the Legal Cheek poll
In or out? With just three months to go until the referendum on the UK’ s membership of the European Union, the nation is alive with debate about whether we’d be better in or out. The decision, for...
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How to join the magic circle
ULaw visiting professor Simon Firth explains what his firm, Linklaters, looks for in prospective trainees In a video that is circulating on Facebook, Linklaters capital markets partner Simon Firth —...
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Apprentices set to go head-to-head with first year law students for top...
LLBers, beware of hotshot school-leavers with much more experience than you A new wave of legal apprentice who earn their law degrees on the job could be set to shake the traditional trainee solicitor...
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Exclusive legal profession poll: 75% want to stay in EU
Survey of 1,000 lawyers and law students shows massive opposition to Brexit The overwhelming majority of the legal profession wants to remain within the EU — but there is notably more willingness to...
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