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‘I’ve accepted a TC with a firm which doesn’t cover the area I want to practise’
I hope to specialise in aviation law
Best of the blogs
Weekly round-up of the top legal blogosphere posts
How I passed the first SQE
Aspiring solicitor Geoffrey Janes scored top marks for SQE1 and shares six practical tips to help you do the same
Big law firms lag behind on partner diversity, SRA reports
Outfits with 50+ partners have fewer BAME and female partners than smaller firms
Clifford Chance retains 70% of spring qualifying trainees
Final magic circle firm to reveal 2022 score
Students forced to queue for hours to book SQE exam
Wait times of up to two hours as online booking system opened this week
Paul Hastings pumps NQ pay to over £141k
Rises for rookies too
Revealed: The law firms with the best offices 2022
The results are in! Legal Cheek’s exclusive survey can reveal the law firms with the swankiest digs
Trowers increases London NQ pay to £77.5k
Rises for firm's regional rookies too
Over two-thirds of law applicants are female
UCAS data shows almost one in ten of all applications are for law
Mishcon delays stock market listing
IPO plans temporarily postponed amid market volatility
Lawyer wellbeing charity LawCare sees spike in stress-related calls
Almost two-thirds of all contacts from trainee and junior lawyers
Pupillage numbers bounce back following Covid dip
BSB report shows leap from pandemic-y 354 in 2020 to 511 in 2021
Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the weekend
Virtual student event TODAY: The Legal Cheek Commercial Awareness Academy (‘The world in 2022’) — with Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner and BARBRI
Tuesday 1 February, 3:30pm to 5pm, taking place virtually
Withers latest to drop ‘Dear Sirs’ in emails
Reminds staff to use 'gender neutral' salutations instead
ULaw signs SQE partnerships with six universities
LSE and Nottingham Uni grads among those guaranteed prep course places under new deal
Virtual hearings starving junior lawyers of advocacy opportunities, warns top judge
Sir Julian Flaux says many find themselves 'limited to being a tile without picture or sound on a Teams screen'
Best of the blogs
Weekly round-up of the top legal blogosphere posts
Revealed: The best chambers for quality of work 2022
Legal Cheek’s latest Junior Barrister Survey reveals all