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King & Wood Mallesons and Eversheds reveal contrasting trainee retention...
Meanwhile, Simmons & Simmons accused of retention figure manipulation City players King & Wood Mallesons and Eversheds have announced contrasting retention performances, as another spring...
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Sidley Austin pays £100,000 each to seven Kirkland & Ellis associates as...
City law juniors haul in Premier League footballer-level money Instagram (Rich Kids Of Instagram) The growing chasm between corporate law and the rest of the legal profession has been underlined by a...
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Pinsent Masons promotes eight women to partner as Linklaters considers female...
Who run the world? Girls Notable progress has been made this week in the unrelenting strive for gender diversity in the legal profession. It has been revealed that commercial giant Pinsent Masons has...
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Northern megafirm Hill Dickinson retains all six of its spring qualifiers
Liverpool-based outfit strikes perfect 100% trainee retention score Corporate all-rounder Hill Dickinson has announced that all of its trainees due to qualify this spring will remain at the firm. From...
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65% of kids think lawyers are men
And they drew some delightful pictures to demonstrate this Michael Page Nearly two thirds of children that took part in a charming art-based study decided to draw lawyers as men — and Legal Cheek has...
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The Law Society has just wasted £7 million on a failed business venture —...
Independent review reveals a catalogue of errors led to conveyance software flop An independent review into a Law Society-backed business venture that left solicitors £7 million out of pocket has...
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Off the Cuff: Dress Code shocker as HMP Belmarsh seeks to ban visiting...
First they came for our cufflinks… bar appalled at what might be banned next In a development likely to trigger tremors in robing rooms the length and breadth of the land, HMP Belmarsh have announced...
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Leaked Mossack Fonseca document leaves London law firm exposed
Eminent private client outfit remains tightlipped over dealings with Azerbaijan president’s daughters Google Maps A prominent London law firm has been left exposed after leaked Mossack Fonseca...
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Norton Rose Fulbright racks up strong newly-qualified solicitor retention...
All bar one spring qualifier will remain at the global giant International outfit Norton Rose Fulbright has revealed a strong spring retention performance of 96%. From a trainee cohort of 23, the...
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Med neg giant combines with ULaw to launch solicitor apprenticeship with law...
New Fletchers programme modelled on law school’s scheme with Mayer Brown The movement to minimise wannabe solicitors’ debts by having them ‘earn while they learn’ continues today with the news that...
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Family law online case management system has disastrous debut week
#CCMSfail Lawyers have expressed their anger about the Ministry of Justice’s latest disastrous initiative in the best way they know how — by setting up a hashtag. A number of less than complimentary...
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11 ways in which the teachings of Donald Trump can guide lawyers to success
Reinterpreting the preposterous Art of the Deal The Donald may have stumbled slightly in Badger country but he remains a strong odds-on favourite for the Republican nomination and will fancy his...
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Scammers clone Burges Salmon’s website to create fake law firm
Maybe avoid applying for a training contract with ‘Owen & Harvey Solicitors’ Scammers have cloned the website of national giant Burges Salmon in what appears to be an attempt to add an air of...
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Half of Allen & Overy’s new London partners are women
Internationally the female promotion figure is 29%, as firm homes in on rather low gender diversity target Magic circle giant Allen & Overy has today announced its latest round of promotions — and...
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Official Solicitor to the Senior Courts appears as litigant-in-person in...
Exclusive: Alastair Pitblado and his fiancée in High Court today — acting for themselves in £150k planning row Eyebrows are being raised across legal London this morning after it emerged that one of...
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Revealed: the universities which give you the best chance of making it to the...
Oxbridge dominates, but there are some surprises A list of the universities attended by partners at top City of London law firms has been published. It shows that a whopping 44% of partners at firms in...
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Medical negligence solicitor’s angry speech to junior doctors goes viral
“The government has declared war on the people in this country,” roars Simpson Millar’s Peter Stefanovic An outspoken partner of a leading medical negligence firm has taken the internet by storm after...
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Panama Papers law firm gets unofficial clothing range
“Because taxes are for poor people” The law firm at the heart of the ‘Panama Papers’ leak now has its own — unofficial — clothing range. Secretive Panamanian outfit Mossack Fonseca hit headlines...
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Shearman & Sterling considers work from home option for its London lawyers
Now US firms are eyeing ‘agile working’ Via Imgur The London office of US law firm Shearman & Sterling is considering a work from home option for its solicitors pending the outcome of an internal...
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Research: top students from disadvantaged backgrounds less likely to apply...
‘Contextual recruitment’ needed to stop the privileged bagging all the jobs, says agency which developed method Instagram (paddy_wagstaff) High achieving students from disadvantaged backgrounds are...
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