Category: News

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

Feb 2 2022 9:03am

Trowers increases London NQ pay to £77.5k

Rises for firm's regional rookies too

Feb 1 2022 10:31am
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Over two-thirds of law applicants are female

UCAS data shows almost one in ten of all applications are for law

Feb 1 2022 9:05am
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Mishcon delays stock market listing

IPO plans temporarily postponed amid market volatility

Jan 31 2022 10:40am

Lawyer wellbeing charity LawCare sees spike in stress-related calls

Almost two-thirds of all contacts from trainee and junior lawyers

Jan 31 2022 10:15am
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Pupillage numbers bounce back following Covid dip

BSB report shows leap from pandemic-y 354 in 2020 to 511 in 2021

Jan 31 2022 9:29am

Withers latest to drop ‘Dear Sirs’ in emails

Reminds staff to use 'gender neutral' salutations instead

Jan 28 2022 11:49am
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ULaw signs SQE partnerships with six universities

LSE and Nottingham Uni grads among those guaranteed prep course places under new deal

Jan 28 2022 11:19am

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'

Jan 28 2022 9:16am

Revealed: The best chambers for quality of work 2022

Legal Cheek’s latest Junior Barrister Survey reveals all

Jan 27 2022 12:10pm

Can lawyers be leaders?

Not so, says Boris -- much to the annoyance of lawyers

Jan 27 2022 11:20am
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BPP students to reverse mentor law firms on diversity and inclusion

Lawyers to be schooled by aspiring lawyers in four-month partnership

Jan 27 2022 9:17am

One in six young barristers want to quit, new report finds

Workloads and mental health among reasons for ditching the wig and gown

Jan 26 2022 2:13pm
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White & Case and ULaw strike SQE training deal

Global firm recruits 50 UK trainees each year

Jan 26 2022 11:21am

London NQ lawyer pay hits record £161,500

US outfit Goodwin ups junior rates to unprecedented levels -- also unveils new perk which sees it pay for their holidays

Jan 26 2022 9:22am

A&O records 87% spring trainee retention score

Magic circle player keeps 33 out of 38 NQs

Jan 25 2022 1:35pm

£150k junior lawyer salaries are ‘out of control’, top general counsel warns

Network Rail's leading lawyer Dan Kayne urges profession to find new ways of retaining talent before young associates 'get hurt'

Jan 25 2022 11:44am
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Barrister fails to overturn six-month suspension for sexual comments to mini-pupil

Robert Michael Kearney challenged delay in reporting vulgar remarks

Jan 25 2022 10:24am
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SRA education chief who turned ‘SQE from a concept into a reality’ to step down this summer

Julie Brannan set for long-planned retirement

Jan 25 2022 9:28am

Will working as a magistrate become the next CV must-have for wannabe lawyers?

Government targets 'younger people' as part of new recruitment drive

Jan 24 2022 12:36pm