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Meet the Lawyer
Baker McKenzie
Jo Hopkins has felt supported and enabled by Baker McKenzie throughout her rise from trainee to senior associate. As a private equity lawyer she works in a traditionally male-dominated area, but as she explains here, Bakers is bucking this trend.
What are you looking for?
Brochure library
Watson Farley & Williams LLP
Watson Farley & Williams is seeking excellence: if you’ve got what it takes, learn more about the practice areas, career progression opportunities and more in the firm’s 2018-19 brochure.
The LawCareers.Net Handbook 2019
LCN Says
Extenuating circumstances in applications
Josh Richman
All kinds of unfortunate things beyond our control can happen to put normal life on hold. Illness, bereavement, family problems - all are likely to affect every one of us at some point.
Commercial Question
Artificial intelligence - is the UK ready, willing and able?
Are UK lawyers prepared for the changes and new possibilities promised by artificial intelligence?
Sponsored by Macfarlanes LLP
Blogs
My summer reading list
Kat C-W
Fancy keeping your legal brain switched on over the summer? Here are some of my top legal reads for the season, including some essentials that you will probably have heard of, a few that are good for the beach and some more challenging, theoretical texts.
Ask the Oracle
Should I submit my training contract applications early?
Dear Oracle ...I know that the main deadline for training contract applications is 31 July, but with around six weeks to go, I’ve still got loads of time left to fill out my forms, right?
