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  • Lo♥︎ing legal life: Is stress bad for you? It depends how you think about it

    • 6 Jul 2017
    • The Lawyer

    This week, systemic coach Zita Tulyahikayo and barrister James Pereira QC discuss the link between the way you think about stress and the effect that stress has on you.

  • My Pride Story: I’ve been at my firm 17 years – trainees are much more open now

    • 4 Jul 2017
    • The Lawyer

    I joined Hogan Lovells (or Lovell White Durrant as it then was) as a trainee solicitor in 2000 and have been a partner in the financial services litigation team since 2012.

  • Law is losing talented women: what can we do?

    • 3 Jul 2017
    • The Lawyer

    Law is losing talented women. The Solicitors Regulation Authority’s Annual Statistics report Reveals the scale of the problem: despite significantly more women than men studying law, receiving training contracts and qualifying as solicitors only 33 per cent of partners across the UK are women.

  • My Pride Story: LGBT students must ask firms the challenging questions

    • 2 Jul 2017
    • The Lawyer

    Vera Vollmann is a trainee solicitor at Slaughter and May.

  • My Pride Story: “The legal profession’s made great strides in LGBT diversity but we can’t be complacent”

    • 26 Jun 2017
    • Richard Simmons

    Daniel Gerring is a partner at Travers Smith.

  • My Pride Story: “I came out at 15 but worried about being open in a law firm”

    • 25 Jun 2017
    • The Lawyer

    I came out to friends and family at the age of 15. I was living in a market town called Macclesfield at the time where there was no visible LGBT community and although there were over 1,000 students at my secondary school, I was not aware of anyone who was openly gay at the school.

  • Lo♥︎ing legal life: How to step outside your comfort zone

    • 22 Jun 2017
    • Richard Simmons

    This week systemic coach Zita Tulyahikayo and barrister James Pereira QC discuss the benefits of stepping outside the comfort zone to discover your true abilities – and why many people choose not to do so.

  • How to alienate potential clients without even realising it

    • 12 Jun 2017
    • Luan de Burgh

    The meeting has been arranged to take place in a café; I’ve asked for some recommendations, done a bit of research and contacted three companies all of whom provide the same technical service I am looking for (in this case, digital design).

  • Lo♥︎ing Legal Life: What is well-being and how can you tell if you are being well?

    • 1 Jun 2017
    • The Lawyer

    This week systemic coach Zita Tulyahikayo and Barrister James Pereira QC discuss the meaning of well-being and how to be well.

  • Election 2017: Trainee solicitor to contest marginal seat for SNP

    • 29 May 2017
    • Richard Simmons

    A trainee solicitor is bidding to become one of Parliament’s youngest MPs in the 2017 General Election.

  • Hogan Lovells bumps trainee pay

    • 25 May 2017
    • The Lawyer

    Hogan Lovells has handed its trainees a £1,000 pay rise.

  • Lo♥︎ing Legal Life: Why you should go on a retreat

    • 18 May 2017
    • Richard Simmons

    This week systemic coach Zita Tulyahikayo and barrister James Pereira QC discuss the benefits of going on a retreat.

  • How the busiest people get so much done

    • 8 May 2017
    • The Lawyer

    Lawyers in City firms can regularly work in excess of a twelve hour day and while most accept this is what they signed up for many lament how difficult it is to make plans outside of work and stick to them.

  • The connection between perception and preparation

    • 8 May 2017
    • Luan de Burgh

    Fail to prepare…We all know the end of that one. As this article is appearing in the middle of an election campaign in the UK it would be a missed opportunity not to cast an eye over to the world of politics

  • Lo♥︎ing Legal Life: How your posture can affect your mood

    • 4 May 2017
    • Richard Simmons

    This week systemic coach Zita Tulyahikayo and barrister James Pereira QC discuss the importance of connecting the mind, body and the space around us, and the ways in which this can be achieved.

  • Shearman NQs get 10% pay bump to £105,000

    • 1 May 2017
    • Richard Simmons

    Shearman & Sterling has raised its salaries for newly-qualified (NQ) solicitors by more than 10 per cent.

  • Reasons NOT to quit law

    • 1 May 2017
    • The Lawyer

    Everyone complains about their job, right? Wrong. A lot of lawyers genuinely love what they do and are happy.

  • Career clinic: How do I approach a firm about a two-week partner secondment?

    • 27 Apr 2017
    • Richard Simmons

    We often have relatively junior associates from our informal panel of external law firms doing up to three-month secondments at our large multi-national corporate in-house legal department.

  • Lo♥︎ing legal life: the benefits of empathic leadership

    • 20 Apr 2017
    • The Lawyer

    The ‘hard nut’ leader may achieve results, but at what price? This week, systemic coach Zita Tulyahikayo and barrister James Pereira QC discuss empathic leadership and how individuals and organisations can benefit.

  • Planning to join a partnership? Here are the questions to ask

    • 19 Apr 2017
    • The Lawyer

    Most associates in law firms are over the moon to be invited to become partners.