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‘Has anyone heard so monstrous a proposition?’
The day the Law Society backed legislation to secure the admission of women to the legal profession.
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Post-Brexit immigration
For business, the government’s immigration white paper gives with one hand and takes with the other.
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Firm hire: Mary Walker moves to Gordons
Mary Walker Mary Walker, Gordons A highly regarded employment partner at Hull-headquartered Andrew Jackson Solicitors has joined Yorkshire firm Gordons. Walker has more than 20 years’ experience, including being made a partner at Gosschalks at just 28 years old before becoming the firm’s head of employment. She ...
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BOOK REVIEW: Picks of the year
Solicitor and regular reviewer David Pickup lists his favourite reads of 2017: European Union Law: A Very Short Introduction Anthony Arnull £7.99, OUP Whatever you feel about the EU and Brexit, this straightforward and clear introduction to the subject is written in a very balanced way. There ...
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BOOK REVIEW: The Savage Poodle
The Savage Poodle – Tales from Legal Practice Richard Barr £12.99, Solicitors Journal Richard Barr is a clinical negligence lawyer with more than 45 years’ experience who is now a consultant at Scott-Moncrieff & Associates. He has been involved in a number of high-profile cases, including ...
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I took 6 years off to start a family and would now like to return to work but in a different area. Should I expect to start at the bottom?
I qualified in February 2008 and worked for 4 years in the commercial/corporate department of an American firm. I would also occasionally pick up some work from the privacy and the dispute resolution/litigation departments. In fact I also assisted the intellectual property office in Brussels on a project. I ...
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BOOK REVIEW: Data minefield
EU General Data Protection Regulation (A Guide to the New Law) James Castro-Edwards £59.95, Law Society Publishing For those who think the ‘right to erasure’ is about an entitlement to reminisce with some 1980s synth-pop (which indeed should perhaps be enshrined in law), you need to read this ...
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BOOK REVIEW: Oil and trouble
Empires and Anarchies: A History of Oil in the Middle East Michael Quentin Morton £25, Reaktion Books In this highly readable book, Morton takes us from the mid-19th century to the present day, charting the history of oil in the Middle East (a term, as Morton puts it, ...
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Having been unable to get my indemnity insurance, where do I go from here?
’I trained on the high street, undertaking considerable amounts of welfare benefits, work, housing Law, employment law, consumer law, and personal injury work (before all the barriers came down, and we had the chaos we have today in the area). I did not do much commercial law stricto sensu, ...
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I could have qualified over two years ago but my firm refused to sign off my log-book as there was no role for me
Firm stalling on executive uplift.
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I wish to retrain as a paralegal, is this achievable with my age and background?
I am 48 years old and have previously worked as a contracts manager although now I am doing care work. I have always had a huge interest in law and would like to retrain as a paralegal. My question is that at my age and background is this a pipe ...
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Will my seat experience when training restrict my choices once qualified?
’I am trainee solicitor and am now moving into my final seat before qualifying in March 2018. I have recently been informed that a business advisory seat is no longer available and I am being left with no choice but to do a split seat of family and business crime. ...
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I am nearly six years’ PQE and am becoming bored and stagnating. I want a new challenge but do not want to start at the bottom.
’I am a family solicitor practising in child care/child abduction. I recently had an appraisal with our managing partner and expressed a desire to expand into advising other areas of law. I am nearly six years’ PQE and am becoming bored and stagnating. I want a new challenge but ...
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Is 18 months of experience in office-based sales roles enough for entry into the legal field?
’I am a BA Business and Law graduate starting a GDL course this month. I have 18 months’ experience in an office-based sales role and am looking at entry into the legal field. I have considered legal secretary/paralegal jobs but am unsure if I would get one given that ...
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I’m a solicitor but I have decided that I want to move out of law, what could be my next step?
’I’m a solicitor (five years PQE) but I have decided that I want to move out of law. I have always worked in industrial disease PI, first as a claimant and currently as a defendant but over the past number of years I have become increasingly disillusioned and frustrated ...