Author: Thomas Connelly

Gowling ups office attendance to 60%
Previously 50%

Regulator dishes out £13,836 fine to drink-driving solicitor
New approach of linking sanction to salary

New fund aims to cover salaries of social welfare trainees
Support up to 20 rookie solicitors

A&O and HSF post spring trainee retention rates
77% and 97%

Huge disparity in LPC provider pass rates as SQE was introduced
Between 100% and 21%

A&O Shearman sets out City office plans
Merger gathers pace

Post Office scandal: SRA unlikely to expedite lawyer prosecutions
Likely wait until inquiry's conclusion

US firms dominate M&A work as deals slump to decade low
Tech suffers particularly badly

SRA fines law firm for failing to provide diversity data
First of its kind

SQE students voice frustration over erroneous exam slot cancellation email
Kaplan stresses assessments will go ahead as planned, apologises for confusion

SRA misses deadline for publishing SQE provider pass rates
Issues statement that leaves open possibility of it never happening

Super regulator probes events leading up to SRA’s closure of Axiom Ince
Important for public confidence, says LSB

Slaughters makes ‘reduced hours for reduced pay’ permanent option for lawyers
Follows succesful pilot

US titan Cravath retakes lawyer salary crown with market-topping rises
What impact will fresh pay war have on associates in the City of London?