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Recent Posts from Solicitr


  • The Week: it’s all about junior lawyers getting pummelled

    Perfect storm analogies have been all the rage with the credit crunch and subsequent recession. But junior lawyers really have been blasted by the bad weather. Redundancies, training contract deferrals and every man and his…

  • Lehman Claims “flat out silly”

    Far be it from financial institutions to take advantage of chaos and confusion for their own benefit. If that’s the case though how about a bit of grown up language to sort them out. Bryan…

  • Print Room Pettiness

    It’s the small things in life… From passive-aggressive notes click here for more passive-aggressive printing.

  • A&O Goes Outsourcing

    So Allen & Overy have jumped on the outsourcing bandwagon. Early adopters were Eversheds and Clifford Chance with Lovells not far behind. But the rising trend kicked off in earnest In April this year when…

  • The Rabbi, The Cocaine and The Prostitutes

    We’ve already had a court case of the week this week - see the Krakow pigeon tossers . But, without wanting to steal the thunder of that post, we just had to draw your attention…

  • Results: Stephenson Harwood on the up

    Stephenson Harwood gave a strong performance for the first half of the year. The City firm brought in £42.6m in the first six months compared with £39.6m for the same period last year. So far,…

  • Results: Olswang takes slight drop

    Technology and media specialist, Olswang has seen its half-year revenues falling a narrow 3% compared to the first half of 2008-09. Revenues fell to £43.3m down from £44.7m in the same period last year. It…

  • Court Case of the Week: British Tossers Get Fined

    This was one of those eye catching headlines that summed up the story neatly: "UK pigeon tossers fined in Poland". The BBC reported yesterday that: Two British men have been fined by a court for…

  • Associates are ‘Self-Absorbed Egotists’

    We wouldn’t want you to miss out so we have picked up the latest thread of the Partner-Associate spat that took place over at Bitter Lawyer . As you can see, it’s gotten rather personal.…

  • Results: Beachcroft storms first half with double digit revenue increase

    Beachcroft has trounced other firms with its half year results posting a 15% increase in revenues for the first half of 2009-10. The figures show fee income at the firm rising to £62m from a…