Author: Legal Cheek
Willkie teams up with OpenAI to build legal tech tools
Another BigLaw-tech tie-up
HSF Kramer’s first results as combined firm reveal £1.8 billion revenue
Partner pay hits £1.53 million
Travers Smith bounces back with record £229 million turnover
Partner pay hits £1.4 million
What the lawyer picks in Andy Burnham’s Cabinet tell us about the way he will govern
One quit his training contract after 10 months and never actually qualified
Mishcon de Reya signs 20-year lease for new Holborn HQ
Relocating in 2029
Debevoise analyst posed as firm lawyer in tenancy row
Barred from profession
Labour MP who called himself a ‘solicitor’ despite never qualifying lands top cabinet job in Burnham’s new government
Jonathan Reynolds back as Business Sec
Baker McKenzie boosts NQ lawyer pay to £150k, matching Magic Circle
More summer rises
Linklaters defends hiring process after unknowingly awarding TC to one of its top boss’s children
Family connection unknown
Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the weekend
The SQE has made qualifying ‘much harder in this weird way that doesn’t reflect what it’s like to become a lawyer’
Ex-Hogan Lovells and Linklaters lawyers slam the SQE
Why Prince Harry’s lawfare was a BIG MISTAKE
Was it worth it?
CPS caught using fake AI cases in High Court
Apologises
Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the weekend
Lawyers risk being sued for failing to use AI
Taskforce warning