UK associates and staff to receive extra 5% of salary

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Flexible working conference takes place on 22 April

Leeds outfit says it operates ‘completely blind’ assessment process, with candidates securing positions on ‘performance and merit’

Focus on tech and life sciences work

I’m currently looking for paralegal roles but have had no luck yet

Weekly round-up of the top legal blogosphere posts

Legal Cheek’s Sophie Yantian chats to ULaw Leeds careers manager, Amy Walker, for her top tips

Follows similar Irish moves by Hogan Lovells, Ashurst and Dentons

Cardiff University law graduate and aspiring barrister Samuel Jenkins on why increased regulation is inevitable

Will initially recruit two grads

Sarah Hallowell, head of academic marketing at LexisNexis UK, breaks it down

Exclusive: Broadcasting giant teams up with ULaw to offer earn-while-you-learn route to solicitor qualification

Helena Normanton’s roundel will mark the address she lived for the early part of her legal career

Two-day virtual conference to explore future of legal education and training

Allen & Overy, Ashurst and Walker Morris latest to thank staff with cash sums

Magic circle player also publishes ethnicity data and, for the first time, disability and LGBT+ results

The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the long weekend

Boris Bronfentrinker tells Legal Cheek he’s “considering grounds for an appeal” after being hit with £5k fine and 12 month driving ban

Featuring 10 leading law firms, alongside in-house lawyers from Netflix, NatWest, BT and the BBC, as well as ULaw’s employability team

Ahead of Living Room Law, the virtual conference all about lawyers who are doing things differently, consultant at Re:link and, formerly a senior associate at Linklaters, Anjalee Mead, explains how she ended up working in Zimbabwe