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Some days redundancy doesn’t look like such a bad option, says City associate Louise Michael...Spare a thought for those in the early stage of their careers in law. From my own experience - and the experience of my friends – it’s clear that at ...
05 Feb 2010 | 10:00
SJB top earner took home £1.2m last year despite 50% PEP fall to £410k
SJ Berwin paid out £1.23m to its top-earning partner in 2008-09, even though average profits per equity partner for the same year fell by almost 50% to £410,000. Details of the payout, which is only £40,000 less than the amount the firm's highes...
26 Jan 2010 | 12:15
Norton Rose takes all staff off flexible working scheme
Norton Rose is ending the flexible working scheme it introduced last year in a bid to avoid redundancies. The City law firm is taking all staff off its Flex scheme from tomorrow (29 January), several months earlier than planned, as a result of an u...
28 Jan 2010 | 00:01
Exclusive access
Representing status, success and wealth, the member's club has long been part of the City scenery. But with a growing wave of modern, fashionable entrants into the market, joining a club does not have to mean evenings sipping whisky in wingback chairs...
27 Jan 2010 | 10:32
Worth another crack at the glass ceiling
Women and law, eh? Same old, same old! Loads enter the profession but most fall off the career track of large City law firms by the time it comes to handing out partnership. By most estimates, more than half of the lawyers entering the profession are ...
21 Jan 2010 | 17:50
Lovells rolls out new diversity initiative at London schools
Lovells has set up a new scheme to encourage young people from a wider socio-economic background to enter the legal profession. The initiative, dubbed Ladder to Law, has been launched in response to last year's report compiled by former cabinet min...
20 Jan 2010 | 13:45
A&O moves to retain talent with new flexi-time scheme for partners
Allen & Overy (A&O) is set to roll out an innovative flexible working scheme allowing partners to remain in the equity while working part-time. The new scheme will be available to all partners globally but is primarily intended to help the firm ret...
21 Jan 2010 | 08:42
Partners reject case for diversity quotas
City partners remain implacably opposed to using any form of quota to tackle diversity issues despite 20 years of initiatives making little progress in promoting at the senior levels in the legal profession. Eight out of 10 partners think there is ...
10 Dec 2009 | 00:01
Eversheds gears up to launch its own outsourcing business
Eversheds is in talks to set up an outsourcing business with its South African ally, positioning it to become the first major law firm to enter the legal outsourcing market. The firm this month launched a six-month pilot which will initially see it...
14 Jan 2010 | 00:01
Bar urges chambers to offer clients a 'one-stop shop' to compete with solicitors
Bar Council chair champions radical proposals to have chambers' business units manage clients directly
13 Jan 2010 | 11:11
Simmons rated as UK's most gay-friendly firm
Four law firms have been included in this year's Workplace Equality Index compiled by gay rights charity Stonewall. The index, which ranks the top 100 gay-friendly employers in the UK, included Simmons & Simmons as the highest-ranked law firm in 15...
13 Jan 2010 | 16:01
Ten steps to GDL success
The Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) offers an avenue into the legal profession for non-law graduates. Sometimes referred to by its historical title of the Common Professional Exam (CPE), the GDL can be studied either as a one-year full-time course or a ...
08 Jan 2010 | 11:22
Stay on your toes
Last year many of the top law firms asked volunteers to defer their training contract start dates - and in some cases gave trainees-to-be no choice in the matter. Some firms, including Norton Rose and Clifford Chance, accompanied deferrals with the...
06 Jan 2010 | 10:48
Barlows chief executive Evans set to step down from firm
Barlow Lyde & Gilbert chief executive Clint Evans has stepped down from his post and is set to leave the firm in the New Year. Evans, who joined Barlows in 2007, will leave the City firm at the end of January, the firm announced today (21 December)...
21 Dec 2009 | 15:16
Mayer Brown to cut City jobs with associates and partners set to leave
Mayer Brown has launched a redundancy consultation which is set to affect up to eight associates in London, while four partners are also departing the firm's City office. The consultation, which began last week, will affect associates from a variet...
17 Dec 2009 | 11:20
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