Tag: Trainees

Will office returns boost junior lawyer morale?
Mental Health Awareness Week: Heavy workloads coupled with lockdown isolation has left many trainees and associates struggling to cope

Hogan Lovells launches trainee mentoring scheme to boost retention of BAME lawyers
Group sessions to cover topics including 'relationship building' and 'overcoming Imposter Syndrome'

From homeless law student to magic circle trainee
A&O rookie and YouTuber Tashan Dwyer sits down with Legal Cheek to reflect on the challenges he's had to overcome to realise his lawyer dream

Shearman ups NQ lawyer pay to £135,000
Trainees also awarded pay rises

NewLaw firm that lets lawyers work ‘wherever, whenever’ launches SQE training contract
Exclusive: Media and sports specialist Level to take on first trainee in 2023

Hogan Lovells retains 17 of 21 qualifying trainees
Two on fixed term deals

Linklaters in-house tech start-up takes on firm trainees
Six-month seat option forms part of magic circle outfit’s training contract programme

Freshfields latest to let lawyers work from home up to half the time
Interim measure includes trainees

Trainees slam remote-working
"All the old farts who bang on about WFH being 'the future' need to read this"

Freshfields keeps 32 of 34 spring NQ solicitors
Macfarlanes also confirms 100% score

White & Case keeps 14 of 17 NQ solicitors
Two rookies qualify into the firm's offices in Dubai and Geneva

New website allows junior lawyers to anonymously share ‘Oops!’ moments
Aims to 'change the culture of unhelpful perfectionism in the legal industry'

Herbert Smith Freehills restarts international secondments for trainee solicitors
Four rookies to go abroad from next month

Slaughter and May to launch virtual insight programme that is open to anyone
No prior legal knowledge or experience required

Fifth of London trainees paid less than Law Society’s recommended minimum wage
Chancery Lane boosts recommended pay by 1.1%

Latham & Watkins bumps trainee pay to £50-55k and increases maintenance grant
Future rookies to receive £10.5k in financial support

Goodwin Procter raises NQ solicitor pay to £137,500
Trainee salaries to be reviewed in the summer

Slaughter and May ups NQ solicitor salaries to £90.5k — but rises fall short of pre-pandemic pay levels
Trainees also handed increases

Herbert Smith Freehills keeps 28 out of 30 NQ associates
Solid spring score of 93%