Tag: Trainees

BCLP restores NQ solicitor pay to £80k as it retains 14 out of 16 spring qualifiers
City player cut salaries in response to pandemic

Linklaters keeps 47 out of 50 NQ solicitors
Reveals BAME-only retention score in City law first

Meet the ski-loving UCL law student waiting out lockdown in the Swiss Alps
Future magic circle trainee Benedict Wilson juggles skiing with remote studies having flown out before the latest travel rules came into force

Allen & Overy kicks off spring retention season with 92% result
34 out of 37 trainees kept on

Junior lawyer virtual event: How to build an international career at a global law firm in London — with Latham & Watkins, Skadden, Slaughter and May and BARBRI
Thursday 21 January 2021; open to all trainees and junior lawyers

Revealed: Law firms’ average work from home start and finish times 2020-21
Everything has changed over the past 12 months -- but what about working hours for trainee and junior lawyers?

Revealed: The best law firms for peer support and partner approachability 2020-21
Legal Cheek’s exclusive survey identifies firms with best culture

Revealed: The best law firms for working from home
From generous WFH budgets to team catch-ups via Zoom -- which law firms have adapted the best to the new way of working?

Revealed: The best law firms for training and quality of work 2020-21
The results are in! Legal Cheek’s exclusive survey can reveal the law firms with the highest scores for training and quality of work

Ropes & Gray launches London-Tokyo training contract
US firm is latest to offer UK-Asia rookie programme

Life as a trainee lawyer during a global pandemic
Legal Cheek Careers catches up with Irwin Mitchell's Daryna Plysak

Simmons & Simmons sets 30% ethnic minority target for trainees
Aims to achieve greater racial diversity by 2025

8 insights into trainee life at Reed Smith
A panel of trainees offer their advice to aspiring City lawyers

DWF launches lawtech training seat geared towards STEM grads
Six-month pilot launches in February 2021

A&O restarts lawyer salary reviews and increases pay
NQs receive pay rise which falls £5k short of pre-COVID six-figure sum

Reed Smith signs SQE training deal with BARBRI and College of Legal Practice
Replaces LPC route from 2022

Norton Rose Fulbright sets BAME trainee recruitment target of 25%
Follows similar ethnicity goals by Links, A&O and HSF

Linklaters sets ‘aspirational’ 35% ethnic minority recruitment target for trainee solicitors
Follows similar moves by A&O and HSF

Over half of trainee solicitors ‘unable to cope with stress’ during lockdown
Report also finds most firms have struggled to train rookies remotely

DWF retains 25 of 39 trainee solicitors
Six on fixed-term deals