Author: Rhys Duncan
CMS bumps London NQ lawyer pay to £110k
Rises in regions too
Unregistered barrister disbarred over misleading legal experience on job application
Tried to secure role with Arden Uni
Liverpool Uni partners with six law firms to launch LLB with built-in qualifying work experience
Paid year-long placements at outfits including DWF, Hill Dickinson, and Taylor Wessing
Linklaters teams up with KCL to deliver AI training for lawyers
Classroom lessons, practical exercises and hackathon
A&O Shearman offers tips for using AI in TC applications
Contrasts with approach of Big Four accountancy firms and The Bar Council, which ban use of ChatGPT
Watson Farley & Williams keeps 16 of 18 qualifying trainees
All in first-choice spots
Slaughter and May raises newly qualified lawyer pay to £150,000
Pay review brought forward following recent market movement
Dentons launches ‘low carbon service’ with lawyers working from home, e-signatures and no printing
Carbon footprint reduced by 44%
Burges Salmon smashes its financials: profit up by nearly 50%
PEP also sees over 40% growth
Aspiring lawyer’s career prospects ‘utterly destroyed’ after role in violent disorder during riots
Law student also handed 14-month jail sentence
Simmons & Simmons takes City NQ lawyer pay to £120,000
Bristol associates also see rise to £76.5k
Eversheds raises NQ lawyer pay in London to £100k
Regional rates move to £65.5k
SQE2 pass rate rises again to 79%
Over 2,000 aspiring lawyers sat latest exams
Urgent appeal launched to re-home trainees amid US firm’s London office closure
10 current and future trainee roles at risk
Police hunt struck-off ‘dine and dash’ solicitor for skipping bail
Removed from legal profession earlier this year
White & Case posts 100% autumn trainee retention
21 of 21 trainees accepted positions
‘Against all odds — my journey to the Bar’
Henderson Chambers' Isha Shakir talks cases, work-life balance and ‘fish and chip Fridays’
Interactive website lets public play judge in real criminal cases
New initiative launched by Sentencing Council
Trainee retention rates: Freshfields and Slaughters post 86% and 84% results
37 of 43 and 36 of 43