Category: News

Former Ashurst IT worker caught selling firm laptops
Barred from legal profession

Womble Bond Dickinson set for new US merger
Combines with Lewis Roca next year

Paralegal who raised workload concerns barred from legal profession for fabricating attendance notes
'Showed a lack of integrity', says SRA

Top BCLP lawyer advises against emailing colleagues on weekends
'Pretty reasonable' approach not a firm-wide policy

Freshfields wants at least 20% of its future trainees to come from lower socio-economic backgrounds
Magic Circle player sets new target

Bar diversity row: is it enough for barristers not to discriminate or should they actively boost inclusion?
Change in barristers' duty contemplated

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

RPC expands solicitor apprenticeship programme to London
10 spots available

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

Pinsents trials alert system when lawyers regularly work excessive hours
Hopes to reduce burnout risk

Police hunt struck-off ‘dine and dash’ solicitor for skipping bail
Removed from legal profession earlier this year