Tag: Trainees

RPC retains 12 out of 14 NQ solicitors
Posts whopping 49.5% uptick in partner profits

Mayer Brown retains 8 out of 10 NQ solicitors
80% autumn result

BCLP keeps 19 out of 22 autumn qualifying trainees
Secure NQ roles in London, Manchester and Hong Kong

Pay training contract and qualifying work experience trainees the same, Law Society tells firms
Chancery Lane calls for parity across both routes ahead of SQE roll-out

NQ lawyer pay hits £90k at Travers
Junior lawyer salaries could rise to as much as £117,000 with bonuses, says firm, which also confirms 84% retention score

Osborne Clarke raises London junior lawyer pay to £80k
Rises in regions and for trainees too

Linklaters retains 45 of 48 autumn qualifying trainees
All permanent positions

Macfarlanes boosts NQ lawyer pay to £90k as it confirms 88% trainee retention score
Rookies also handed rises

HSF raises NQ ‘total compensation’ to £107k
Posts 97% autumn trainee retention result

DLA Piper London NQ pay hits £88k as trainees handed £1k increases
Rises in regions too

CMS becomes latest City firm to launch non-law grad scheme
Four grads to join firm's new business development and marketing programme this September

Weil dishes out £8k Covid bonuses to NQ lawyers
Extra cash for trainees and associates too

Ex-Reed Smith trainee accuses firm of disability discrimination
Employment Tribunal dismissed further race discrimination claim

Mills & Reeve kicks off autumn retention season with 100% score
All 19 trainees to stay put

Eversheds lawyers to work from the office two to three days a week
New 'blended working' model applies to firm's trainees too

Slaughter and May to allow trainees to work remotely one day a week
New policy enables 'majority' of staff to work away from the office up to 40% of the time

Trainees tell us what they love (and hate) about remote working
Junior lawyers reflect on their mixed experiences as they prepare to return to the office

‘Has anyone had a good experience doing their TC remotely?’
I'm worried new home-working polices will harm my experience, one future trainee writes

Law Society issues trainee support guidance following flurry of flexible working policies
Many firms now letting lawyers work away from the office 50% of the time

Paralegal told she was a trainee solicitor secures compensation from former firm
Nicolette Browne-Marke, 26, represented herself at the employment tribunal