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Lessons from the regions - time for a rethink on City law firm culture?

Amid recent changes in the law to promote more flexible ways of working, City lawyers may well reflect on their own inflexible working day and long hours culture...
4 minute read

International Edition

Lawyers - who are you, and why does this matter?

If you are going to build the life you want to lead then you need to firstly get to know yourself better, and mostly importantly, 'what makes you tick'...
4 minute read

International Edition

What do you want from your career and life?

the work that you relish, and that you find what you are doing worthwhile. It is worth thinking about this carefully, because it only gets harder to motivate yourself if you are not passionate about your work. I recently asked a group of new lawyers the questi on: "What do you want from your career and life?" Their response was stunned silence...
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International Edition

It pays to read the small print - the dissertation on IT and law that transformed a career

"It was 1981, and IBM had just launched its first PC. I was an undergraduate at Glasgow University and was almost alone in the law school in being excited about the possible impact of this new technology. I wanted to understand what the computer might mean for the legal world - how might it revolutionise this remarkably traditional profession into which I was heading?
4 minute read

International Edition

Clydes, Eversheds and Osborne Clarke latest firms to post trainee retention stats

Clyde & Co, Eversheds and Osborne Clarke have become the latest firms to announce trainee retention rates for this autumn's qualifiers, with Clydes retaining 100% of its UK intake.
2 minute read

International Edition

Allen & Overy boosts autumn trainee retention rate to 82%

Allen & Overy has become the final magic circle firm to announce retention figures for its September 2014 qualifying trainees, keeping on 82% of its cohort, up from 2013's figure of 72%.
2 minute read

Legal Week

Addleshaw Goddard to adopt groundbreaking apprenticeship scheme

Addleshaw Goddard is to implement a new apprenticeship scheme allowing participants to qualify as solicitors without a university education.
8 minute read

International Edition

Addleshaw Goddard to adopt groundbreaking apprenticeship scheme

Addleshaw Goddard is to implement a new apprenticeship scheme allowing participants to qualify as solicitors without a university education.
2 minute read

Legal Week

Legal apprenticeship scheme will allow participants to qualify as solicitors

A raft of leading law firms and in-house teams have helped the UK government develop new apprenticeship standards for the legal profession, helping to create a potential new route to qualification.
13 minute read

International Edition

Legal apprenticeship scheme will allow participants to qualify as solicitors

A raft of leading law firms and in-house teams have helped the UK government develop new apprenticeship standards for the legal profession, helping to create a potential new route to qualification.
2 minute read

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