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‘The day of the constitutional lawyer has come’ says Prof Dougan
Liverpool Uni law lecturer gives evidence to House of Commons Treasury Committee on all things Brexit The law lecturer of the moment, Michael Dougan, professor of European law at the University of...
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City lawyer at centre of Legal Cheek investigation quits profession over CV...
Ex-McCarthy Tétrault “consultant” claimed, among other things, to have obtained an LLM from King’s College and a PHD from the University of Zurich A City lawyer who was at the centre of an exclusive...
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London solicitors look to dual qualify as New York attorneys amid Brexit chaos
Leaving Europe could be bad news for status of English law One of the biggest providers of tuition for the New York Bar exam has reported a surge in interest among UK solicitors since Britain voted to...
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Top firms release their full year financial results and profits per equity...
Gravy train continues on merry way but will Brexit prove to be a buffer? There has been a flurry of financial results issued by City law firms over the last few days and, as expected, they make for...
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Why ambitious junior lawyers need to create their own networks
Ahead of ‘How to make it as a City lawyer’, King & Wood Mallesons partner Ajay Pathak shares what he has learned on his journey to the top One of the pieces of advice I give to young lawyers is to...
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High Court slaps litigant-in-person who bombarded Pinsent Masons lawyer with...
Google litigant described as “obsessional and vexatious” An “obsessional” litigant in person who bombarded a senior Pinsent Masons lawyer with “more than 100 text messages” has been handed an extended...
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Trowers & Hamlins reveals autumn retention rate of 79%
Seasonal fluctuations continue to affect national firm City outfit Trowers & Hamlins has revealed 11 out of 14 of its autumn 2016 newly qualifying (NQ) lawyers have committed their future to the...
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Chilcot: UK’s toughest ever précis challenge — tweet by tweet
Lawyers among the leading contenders as tweeters attempted to condense 2.6 million words into 140 characters Credit @jimwaterson Imagine having to reduce the whole of Harry Potter (1 million words),...
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Law student who chopped off love rival lawyer’s PENIS with garden shears jailed
Shear agony A Tokyo law student has been jailed for four and half years after he chopped off the penis of a lawyer love rival using a pair of garden shears. Ikki Kotsugai (pictured above), 25, from...
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Addleshaw Goddard gives ‘home-desking’ the green light implementing UK wide...
The ‘agile working’ bandwagon gains another passenger Addleshaw Goddard has given ‘home-desking’ the green light, rolling out a new policy across all three of its UK offices. Joining the hot — but not...
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Brexit Shmexit: King & Wood Mallesons ups newly qualified pay packets to £70,000
Exclusive: Rumours also circulate that Macfarlanes has joined KWM in waving two fingers at Brexit by boosting junior lawyer salaries King & Wood Mallesons (KWM), remaining resolute about London’s...
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BPP poaches top sports law firm from ULaw in future trainee deal
North-west outfit Brabners strikes LPC deal that kicks off this September BPP University Law School (BPP) has poached a top sports law firm from arch rivals University of Law (ULaw), putting pen to...
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CMS Cameron McKenna drafts in resource management guru to allocate work to...
Increased red tape will improve efficiency… apparently Corporate heavyweight CMS Cameron McKenna has added a resource management guru to the firm’s payroll, whose sole responsibility is to dish out...
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Snoopers’ Charter: Lawyers’ fight to protect legal privilege reaches the...
Amendments supported by the Law Society and the Bar Council will be debated today In yet another case of lawyers vs politicians, the legal profession’s concerns about the Snoopers’ Charter are going to...
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Video: How to make it as a City lawyer
Six top solicitors answer law students’ questions about how they made it into the legal profession As City of London law firms seek to reflect their global clients to a greater extent, there has never...
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Employment solicitor argues he’s victim of a ‘character assassination’ after...
Newspaper exposes lawyer as ex-leader of British Resistance Party Echo An employment solicitor believes he is the victim of a “character assassination” after a regional newspaper wrote about his...
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Now Corbyn’s talking about a legal challenge
Lawyers disagree on the internal procedures for electing Labour’s next leader Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has vowed to take his own party to court if he isn’t named on the leadership contest ballot...
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‘Pokémon Go’ craze reaches the heart of legal London
Augmented reality game allows users to catch on-screen characters using real-life locations — including Inner Temple Library The new ‘Pokémon Go’ craze currently sweeping the nation appears to have...
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Neo-Nazi who shot dead former Freshfields junior lawyer sentenced to...
Family outraged as Luke Holland’s killer given a reduced sentence because he was drunk A German man found with illegal Nazi memorabilia in his flat has been sentenced for the killing of an Oxford...
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Regulator opens its case against Harry Potter lawyer claiming ‘he lives in a...
Disciplinary hearing gets underway despite no show from Alan Blacker The controversial solicitor-advocate Alan Blacker — aka Lord Harley — has failed to attend a disciplinary hearing, as the Solicitors...
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