Someone at legal directory Legal 500 is in big trouble after accidentally publishing a series of incredibly harsh reviews of lawyers. Among other things, barristers were criticised for the standard of their work, their lateness and their temperament, while clerks…
Ready, set, apply? In the latest submission to our Career Conundrums series, an aspiring solicitor wonders whether speed or substance matters more when firms recruit on a rolling basis. “Hi LC. I’m preparing my TC applications and several firms on…
Pro bono clinics King’s College London, the City Law School, and BPP have become the first UK law schools to collaborate with Legora, the legal AI tool. The move brings the same grade of the platform used by law firms…
Alex Norris’s oath-taking followed by wig-filled service at Westminster Abbey (Far left) from left to right: Baroness Carr, Lady Chief Justice, Alex Norris MP, the new Lord Chancellor, and Sir Geoffrey Vos, Master of the Rolls.Credit: Polly Botsford Today, 1st…
82% Eversheds Sutherland is retaining 31 of its 38 UK qualifiers, giving the firm an autumn trainee retention rate of 82%. An additional three UK trainees qualified six months early with ‘time to count’ in March, taking the firm’s annual…
Prospect of ‘club v club’ disputes following shock leaks in Man City case It’s not only the football world that is reeling from the news that leaked in The Athletic last Friday over the charges against Manchester City FC brought…
Which outfits are setting the pace for junior lawyer salaries? The battle for junior lawyer talent shows little sign of cooling, with Legal Cheek’s latest research revealing the increasingly hefty sums being paid to newly qualified solicitors at 113 of…
‘Totally inappropriate’ A barrister has been ordered to pay almost £7,000 in wasted costs after attempting to conduct the first day of an employment tribunal hearing while travelling on trains in Germany. Michael Engelhardt-Sprack had been given permission to appear…
90% Mills & Reeve has posted an autumn trainee retention score of 90%, keeping on 26 of its 29 qualifying trainees. The 29-strong group is the firm’s largest ever qualifying cohort, with those staying on spread across six of its…
Big pay, long hours Legal Cheek’s latest Trainee and Junior Lawyer Survey, based on more than 2,000 anonymous responses from trainees and junior lawyers across 110+ firms, revealed a strikingly varied picture of working life across the profession, from 12-hour-plus…