The average female lawyer is paid £51,396 less per year than the average male lawyer, according to a new survey. It's worth bearing in mind, though, that the survey – by legal recruiter Laurence Simons – is of just 988 predominantly fairly senior UK lawyers; 63% of which work in-house and 37% in private practice. A full breakdown of the results is below...
"If you want my first name to be 'Bob’s Supermarket' and my last name to be '.com' I'm cool with that," writes debt-ridden ex-law student Jason Madsen on eBay. Madsen (pictured below) quit law school in the US after just a year having been denied an extension of the loan funding his studies, leaving him with $75,000 (£47,000) worth of debt – and nothing to show for it (putting the plight of jobless UK law graduates into perspective).
In October we reported on a US law graduate’s bid to pay off his massive debts via an appeal on crowdfunding platform Indiegogo. The deadline for the 'Save Nick' campaign expired over the weekend. So how much did Nick Freilich (pictured below) raise?
Between them, former Simmons & Simmons associate Anna Kavanagh and her ex-husband, Holman Fenwick Willan partner Giles Kavanagh, spent almost everything they owned on a bitter dispute over the custody of their children – a story reported widely in September.
Yesterday Anna told her side of the story to The Sunday Times (£). It made for fascinating reading...
Legal Cheek has obtained records that show the names of 15 law firms which have failed to pay a junior criminal barrister a combined £4,931.82 in fees.
The barrister in question has been chasing the money for four years. So we decided to see if the threat of being named and shamed on Legal Cheek would focus the firms’ minds. This is what happened...
First, the good news: British lawyers pull in more cash than their counterparts in economic powerhouses Mexico, Italy and South Africa.
Now the bad news: our solicitors and barristers earn less than lawyers in the US, the United Arab Emirates, Canada, Germany, France and China.
It gets worse. While British lawyers’ average salary of £50, 675 is higher – just – than the average legal wage in Brazil, our extortionate living costs mean that, in real terms, you’re better off practising law in Rio than London.
The full rankings are below...
Spotted on a robing room noticeboard...
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