Careers News
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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.
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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.
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Vera Vollmann is a trainee solicitor at Slaughter and May.
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My Pride Story: “The legal profession’s made great strides in LGBT diversity but we can’t be comp...
27/06/2017
Daniel Gerring is a partner at Travers Smith. -
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.
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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.
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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).
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This week systemic coach Zita Tulyahikayo and Barrister James Pereira QC discuss the meaning of well-being and how to be well.
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A trainee solicitor is bidding to become one of Parliament’s youngest MPs in the 2017 General Election.
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This week systemic coach Zita Tulyahikayo and barrister James Pereira QC discuss the benefits of going on a retreat.
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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
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How the busiest people get so much done
09/05/2017
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. -
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.
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Reasons NOT to quit law
02/05/2017
Everyone complains about their job, right? Wrong. A lot of lawyers genuinely love what they do and are happy. -
Shearman NQs get 10% pay bump to £105,000
02/05/2017
Shearman & Sterling has raised its salaries for newly-qualified (NQ) solicitors by more than 10 per cent. -
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.
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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.
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Most associates in law firms are over the moon to be invited to become partners.
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Freelance lawyering: what’s the point?
18/04/2017
Are you slogging your guts out in the hope that somebody somewhere will notice and one day in the distant future you might get the nod and be promoted to partner?