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25 February 2022
Issue: 7967 / Categories: Legal News , Courses , Career focus , Profession
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NLJ jobs & career hub: career clinic & practice development

NLJ aims to help you achieve the best possible match through our Jobs & Careers hub. As well as recruitment ads, it offers business-critical information and advice through a range of articles

For insight into overcoming obstacles and achieving career success, visit NLJ’s careers clinic.

For example, you might want to find out how the legal market is expected to perform in 2022: which areas of law will see continued demand? Will salaries continue to rise this year, how will firms react to demand for flexible working and will we see a change in law firm culture? Seamus Hoar, senior partner, Major, Lindsey & Africa looks at these issues in his NLJ article, ‘Will the party end in 2022? Not before it gets a whole lot louder’. 

If legal marketing is your bag then turn to Dominic Ayres’ excellent article, ‘Getting ahead in legal marketing’. Ayres, a senior client manager at Eversheds Sutherland, and the author of How to Advance Your Career in Professional Services Marketing (January 2022), provides a wealth of insight into this fast-paced and demanding career. 

Or perhaps your field is litigation and you either want to support your junior litigators or you are a junior litigator? The pandemic provided uniquely different challenges for us all. Emma West of RPC & Caroline Phipps of LK Law are co-chairs of the Associates Committee of the Commercial Litigators’ Forum: in an informative article, ‘Junior litigators & the new ‘normal’’, they look into the career challenges and opportunities of post-pandemic working for junior practitioners in litigation. 

For all this and much, much more: visit NLJ’s Jobs & Careers hub, at www.newlawjournal.co.uk/career-hub.

Issue: 7967 / Categories: Legal News , Courses , Career focus , Profession
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

NLJ Career Profile: Nikki Bowker, Devonshires

NLJ Career Profile: Nikki Bowker, Devonshires

Nikki Bowker, head of litigation and dispute resolution at Devonshires, on career resilience, diversity in law and channelling Elle Woods when the pressure is on

Ellisons—Sarah Osborne

Ellisons—Sarah Osborne

Leasehold enfranchisement specialist joins residential property team

DWF—Chris Air

DWF—Chris Air

Firm strengthens commercial team in Manchester with partner appointment

NEWS
Contract damages are usually assessed at the date of breach—but not always. Writing in NLJ this week, Ian Gascoigne, knowledge lawyer at LexisNexis, examines the growing body of cases where courts have allowed later events to reshape compensation
The Supreme Court has restored ‘doctrinal coherence’ to unfair prejudice litigation, writes Natalie Quinlivan, partner at Fieldfisher LLP, in this week' NLJ
The High Court’s refusal to recognise a prolific sperm donor as a child’s legal parent has highlighted the risks of informal conception arrangements, according to Liam Hurren, associate at Kingsley Napley, in NLJ this week
The Court of Appeal’s decision in Mazur may have settled questions around litigation supervision, but the profession should not simply ‘move on’, argues Jennifer Coupland, CEO of CILEX, in this week's NLJ
A simple phrase like ‘subject to references’ may not protect employers as much as they think. Writing in NLJ this week, Ian Smith, barrister and emeritus professor of employment law at UEA, analyses recent employment cases showing how conditional job offers can still create binding contracts
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