Tag: Solicitors

Full video: How the SQE can help create a more diverse legal profession
Lawyers and legal education experts join double Paralympian and solicitor apprentice Amy Marren to discuss how the new assessment will open the door to untapped talent

Why you should be worried about halloumi IP
Will Holmes explores the unusual intellectual property laws protecting the popular cheese

Bakers boosts NQ lawyer salaries to £110,000
City firms continue to up pay 📈

Akin Gump NQ lawyer salaries hit record £179,000
Rise due to favourable exchange rate

RPC records 100% autumn trainee retention rate
All 14 rookies secure NQ roles

Hill Dickinson to offer TCs in the Toon
Move follows office launch in Newcastle

CMS boosts NQ lawyer pay to £100k
Second boost in seven months

Top judge blasts ‘creeping march of anonymity’ in solicitor disciplinary rulings
High Court orders transparency in misconduct acquittal of City lawyer over posts on her 330,000-follower Instagram account

Should ex-magic circle man Raab become caretaker PM?
Question mark over whether Boris will stay until Autumn

Attorney General confirms Tory leadership bid as Boris prepares to quit
From Legal Cheek Awards to No.10?

Solicitor General Alex Chalk and ex-magic circle associate Bim Afolami MP become latest Tory lawyers to abandon Boris Johnson
Conservative vice-chair Afolami quit on live TV

Bird & Bird gives trainees and staff £1,000 cost of living bonus
One-off payment to those earning £50k and below

How aspiring lawyers can make QWE work for them
Speakers from Flex Legal, Accutrainee and Reed Smith joined a legal education expert from BARBRI to discuss how qualifying work experience is presenting a new and exciting pathway into the profession

Shearman gives London staff, including trainees, option to work remotely for whole of August
Hopes to encourage productivity and support wellbeing

Hill Dickinson launches in Newcastle
The Toon gains another big legal name

HSF ups NQ lawyer base pay to £120k
Leapfrogs A&O, Links and Slaughters

The changing legal landscape: How will it affect aspiring lawyers?
Former barrister turned ULaw Deputy Vice-Chancellor Law, Professor Peter Crisp, looks at some of the key issues impacting those seeking to enter the legal profession, ahead of next week’s Legal Cheek-ULaw Summer Virtual Vacation Scheme