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How do you play a networking event?
The debatable usefulness of small talk over a glass of wine In the latest instalment in our career conundrums series, one law student asks Legal Cheek readers for advice on whether networking events...
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First ever City law firm business school trains up 250 junior lawyers to...
Programme is part of wider corporate law drive to up-skill trainees The City’s first law firm business school is set to spur a host of rivals as corporate solicitors wake up to the need to educate new...
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Freshfields posts 82% trainee retention rate rounding off mixed bag for magic...
Elsewhere in the City, Reed Smith posts disappointing 58% result while Weil Gotshal & Manges scores perfect 100% Global giant Freshfields has posted a disappointing spring retention result, holding...
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‘Law student’ who claimed to be at BPP pleads guilty to Christmas Eve murder
Carl Langdell said he was doing GDL at BPP, but law school denies all knowledge of him Aspiring lawyer Carl Langdell has pleaded guilty to the Christmas Eve murder of a young history teacher. The 26...
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Top lawyers draw upon ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ to give students careers advice
It seems the inspirational drag queen has some tips for budding solicitors and barristers The legal Twitterati was out in force this morning giving advice to aspiring lawyers, using the ever-inspiring...
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Junior criminal lawyer pleads GUILTY to conspiracy to supply cocaine
Barrister turned solicitor Omar Khan was charged in December 2015 and spent Christmas behind bars A rookie lawyer has pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to supply cocaine at Nottingham Crown...
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Supreme Court shatters law geeks’ wedding dreams
Highest court in the land opens its doors to private hire events — but has no licence for couples to tie the knot The Supreme Court has today announced that five of its rooms will be made available for...
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Sheffield bids to wrestle corporate law northshoring crown from Manchester
Council big wigs offer cash incentives to get a piece of the outsourcing action Sheffield Council is considering a series of cash saving incentives to lure top corporate law firms away London in favour...
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Simmons & Simmons keeps seven out of nine new qualifiers
Firm declines to comment on how many trainees started this round’s qualification process City law firm Simmons & Simmons has held on to seven out of nine of its lawyers who qualified last month,...
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Team of four students from UCL, LSE, Leicester and Portsmouth crowned the...
Quartet snatch win in prestigious competition A pair of non-law students from UCL and LSE teamed up yesterday with law graduates from the universities of Leicester and Portsmouth to win a top national...
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Commemorative toilet roll tells of female struggle to enter legal profession...
And you can own one for just £100… A collection of very special toilet rolls have been created, capturing the story of how women were unable to land jobs in the legal sector — because of the lack of...
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Video: Litigation Commercial Awareness Question Time — with Hardwicke and RPC
Top barristers and solicitors answer students’ questions about legal and finance stories in the news The buzzword ‘commercial awareness’ is often thought to apply only to transactional law, but it’s...
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The legal sector boom: Lawyers responsible for 8,000 additional jobs
But what are they, exactly? Lawyers are receiving some good press for once, after new research claims that the legal sector is good for the economy. In what’s shaping up to be a good week for the legal...
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Hogan versus Gawker: Free speech can be costly
Gawker has been ordered to pay an astonishing $140 million in cumulative damages to the former US wrestling icon Hulk Hogan has been awarded a staggering $140m (£98m) in damages in his sex tape lawsuit...
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‘Drunk’ solicitor inadvertently becomes TV star after using work email to...
“You’re sh*t” A comedian has recalled the moment he received an abusive message from someone using a law firm email address while apparently under the influence of alcohol. Joe Lycett — who was...
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DLA Piper associate struck off for concealing strike out
Young real estate associate at international giant fabricated court documents A young associate at global behemoth DLA Piper has been struck off for fabricating court documents to conceal the fact a...
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Bigshot megafirm partner banned from UK legal practice after billing clients...
Top lawyer also used firm’s cash to pay off debts he owed relating to spin-off venture A former partner at Squire Patton Boggs legacy firm Hammond Suddards has been banned from working in UK legal...
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Law Society’s Chancery Lane HQ to become Europe’s largest Nando’s
Neo-Georgian building in heart of legal London purchased by chicken giant for undisclosed fee The Law Society of England and Wales’ Chancery Lane headquarters is poised to become Europe’s largest...
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Aspiring solicitor’s training contract deemed worthless after she was left...
Supervisor took maternity leave without arranging appropriate support An aspiring lawyer’s training contract has been deemed valueless after she was left unsupervised for over 15 months, it has...
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Who’s to blame when an April Fool goes wrong?
All fun and games until someone loses an eye Instagram (sarah_mccleans_pen) Pranks have never been more prevalent — you can’t move for practical jokers and YouTube challengers. But what happens when a...
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