Author: thomas-connelly
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Partner profits rise at Ashurst and Clydes as more firms release financials
Hill Dickinson and CRS post strong numbers too
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Slaughters boosts trainee pay – still ‘carefully considering’ NQ lawyer salary
Magic Circle rivals all increased to £150k
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‘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
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Tech’s role in boosting access to justice among key themes for 2024 Pro Bono Week
Annual programme of events runs later this year
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Quinn Emanuel hikes NQ lawyer pay to market topping £180k
Serious money for 20-somethings
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Freshfields sets down Magic Circle salary marker as it ups NQ lawyer pay 20% to £150k
Is there another pay war on the horizon?
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A&O Shearman: A new Magic Circle mega-firm is born
Historic tie-up goes live today
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EXCLUSIVE: Students who had TCs cancelled among those hit by Kaplan SQE blunder
Told they’d failed SQE1 when actually they'd passed
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‘Omnishambles’: Law school bosses react to SQE exam fiasco
Mix of concern and anger
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Exam chaos: Kaplan issues apology after 175 students wrongly told they’d failed SQE
Questions remain over whether blunder led to TC offer cancellations
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Gowling ups office attendance to 60%
Previously 50%
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Regulator dishes out £13,836 fine to drink-driving solicitor
New approach of linking sanction to salary
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New fund aims to cover salaries of social welfare trainees
Support up to 20 rookie solicitors
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A&O and HSF post spring trainee retention rates
77% and 97%
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Huge disparity in LPC provider pass rates as SQE was introduced
Between 100% and 21%