Author: Aishah Hussain
City law firm donates £2 million profit slice to Covid charities
Simmons & Simmons cash contribution follows solid financial results
Birkbeck law student dumped from Love Island villa
Back to the books for Sharon Gaffka?
Osborne Clarke raises London junior lawyer pay to £80k
Rises in regions and for trainees too
Linklaters retains 45 of 48 autumn qualifying trainees
All permanent positions
Bar course pass rates drop 18% during pandemic
Just 10% of BPTC grads started pupillage in 2020-21, new stats show
Fraudsters use fake Reed Smith ID card in Bitcoin ‘romance scam’
Regulator issues public warning
Slaughter and May offers junior lawyers ‘job share’ option
Magic circle firm pilots series of flexi-work schemes which see associates work reduced hours for less pay
City firms publish strong financial results despite Covid disruption
Revenue rises at HSF, Eversheds, Fieldfisher and Kennedys
Pinsents ditches billing targets in bonus shake-up
International firm will now set financial rewards against criteria including colleague trust and environmental impact
HSF raises NQ ‘total compensation’ to £107k
Posts 97% autumn trainee retention result
Linklaters hands lawyers £300 to cover knitting, yoga and meditation classes
Spent via mood-boosting app
Elon Musk mocks British wig-wearing barristers
'Mfs in the 1700s saw this hairstyle and were like YOOOO 🔥🔥🔥'
DLA Piper London NQ pay hits £88k as trainees handed £1k increases
Rises in regions too
Quarter of junior lawyers expect to work from the office full-time after ‘Freedom Day’
WFH guidance to be dropped on 19 July
CMS becomes latest City firm to launch non-law grad scheme
Four grads to join firm's new business development and marketing programme this September
SQE rival for school leavers gets go-ahead
CILEX says new route to qualification will be "more affordable" than Solicitors Qualifying Exam
Eversheds ups London NQ lawyer pay to £82k
Rises for rookies in regions too
Love Island: Ex-Lord Chancellor throws support behind former MoJ colleague
David Gauke said he might tune in to follow progress of Sharon Gaffka
Mid-sized City firm latest to appoint female leader
Jo Keddie takes the helm at Winckworth Sherwood from today
Global law firms unite to support net zero transition
Net Zero Lawyers Alliance's 22 founding members include Clifford Chance, Slaughters and HSF