Author: Thomas Connelly
Magic and silver circle law firms sign commitment to ensure BAME junior lawyers get same career opportunities as white counterparts
Elite firms join over 30 legal recruiters in new diversity pledge
Hogan Lovells reinstates NQ lawyer pay following COVID cuts
Global firm trimmed salaries in London and Birmingham earlier this summer
Exclusive: Big Aussie law school moves into English super-exam market, offering SQE 1 and 2 prep courses
College of Legal Practice will challenge established players for market share
Irish solicitor gives CPR to dying bear
Killian MacLochlainn owns an animal sanctuary
Solicitor super-exam receives final approval
LSB signs off on biggest shake-up to legal education and training in a quarter-century
Norton Rose Fulbright sets BAME trainee recruitment target of 25%
Follows similar ethnicity goals by Links, A&O and HSF
Linklaters extends virtual internship to sixth-formers
No plans to offer solicitor apprenticeships
Trio of ex-Supreme Court justices join 800 legal figures in call for Johnson and Patel to end lawyer ‘hostility’
Open letter follows series of public attacks on profession
US law firm duo dish out COVID bonuses to London lawyers
Associates at Simpson Thacher and Akin Gump rewarded up to £31,000 for lockdown endeavours
Linklaters sets ‘aspirational’ 35% ethnic minority recruitment target for trainee solicitors
Follows similar moves by A&O and HSF
Fieldfisher boss: ‘My heart drops when I see NQ lawyers in US firms earning more than some of our partners’
Six-figure pay packets 'unsustainable', agrees Pinsents senior partner
Allen & Overy kicks off pay gap reporting season
Magic circle outfit reveals a partner inclusive gender result of 59.9%
Robot judges determining guilt through speech and body temperature ‘commonplace’ within 50 years, AI guru predicts
Sci-fi style justice sooner than we think?
Over half of trainee solicitors ‘unable to cope with stress’ during lockdown
Report also finds most firms have struggled to train rookies remotely
Westminster, Greenwich and London South Bank law students to offer free legal advice to Windrush victims
Assist with compensation claims
London law firm seeks dog walker on £30k a year
Sign us up! ?
DWF retains 25 of 39 trainee solicitors
Six on fixed-term deals
‘I’d be shouted at because I left the pub at 10 o’clock rather than 11pm’, says bullied former pupil barrister
New bar study finds rookies ‘particularly vulnerable’ to bullying and harassment
Hogan Lovells keeps 20 out of 29 autumn NQ solicitors
Two on fixed-term contracts
The perfect law grad is a ‘team player’ with ‘excellent communication skills’, according to research
Data bods use job ads to identify key qualities employers seek from legally-minded uni leavers