Author: Thomas Connelly

Financial Times estimates Slaughter and May profit per equity partner to be £4 million
Highest ever figure touted for secretive elite firm

Magistrate warned after ‘heated dispute’ over neighbour’s dog
Emphasised legal knowledge

Blind solicitor to tackle 24 peaks in 24 hours
Ex-Ashurst associate hopes to raise £150k

High Court judge reprimanded for sending handwritten love letter to junior colleague
'Let down and devalued'

City lawyer turned fashion designer swaps billables for bags
Ex-Taylor Wessing associate Saher Bhatti now runs successful vegan handbag brand

SRA warns students sharing SQE content risks automatic fail and no resit option
Potentially career ending

Delisted DWF sees revenues climb as more law firms release financials
Eversheds Sutherland and Irwin Mitchell also release results

Law Society recommends 5% pay boost for rookie solicitors
£27,418 in London, £24,320 elsewhere

Partner profits rise at Ashurst and Clydes as more firms release financials
Hill Dickinson and CRS post strong numbers too

Slaughters boosts trainee pay – still ‘carefully considering’ NQ lawyer salary
Magic Circle rivals all increased to £150k

‘Enormous opportunity missed’: Law school chief hits out at ethnicity attainment gap report
City Law School's James Catchpole questions exclusion of SQE students in long-awaited research

Tech’s role in boosting access to justice among key themes for 2024 Pro Bono Week
Annual programme of events runs later this year

Quinn Emanuel hikes NQ lawyer pay to market topping £180k
Serious money for 20-somethings

Freshfields sets down Magic Circle salary marker as it ups NQ lawyer pay 20% to £150k
Is there another pay war on the horizon?

A&O Shearman: A new Magic Circle mega-firm is born
Historic tie-up goes live today

EXCLUSIVE: Students who had TCs cancelled among those hit by Kaplan SQE blunder
Told they’d failed SQE1 when actually they'd passed

‘Omnishambles’: Law school bosses react to SQE exam fiasco
Mix of concern and anger

Exam chaos: Kaplan issues apology after 175 students wrongly told they’d failed SQE
Questions remain over whether blunder led to TC offer cancellations