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Clyde & Co confirms 79% autumn trainee retention score
Holds junior lawyer salaries steady

Get jabbed before coming to the office, US firms tell lawyers
Davis Polk and Ropes & Gray to disable ID cards of unvaccinated employees, reports claim

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Law grad turned Bake Off star joins Strictly Come Dancing line-up
John Whaite is one half of show's first-ever male pairing

Gibson Dunn hikes London junior lawyer salaries to £145k
Covington raises NQ rates to £128k

Oxford Uni confirms law exams will be online next academic year
They'll also continue to be open-book

Pinsent Masons keeps 63 of 72 autumn qualifying trainees
Womble Bond Dickinson and Watson Farley & Williams also record solid autumn results

Pupil barrister pay hits £75,000 as top London sets boost awards
Rises at One Essex Court, Monckton, Matrix, 7KBW, 39 Essex and Outer Temple

Legal blogger offers sneak peek inside magic circle firm’s perk-filled office
Swimming pool ✅ gym ✅ hair salon ✅

Does Lord Digby Jones’ accent criticism merit new legislation?
France may hold the answer, writes future magic circle trainee Will Holmes

Taylor Wessing ups NQ lawyer pay to £81k and confirms 74% retention score
Rises for trainees too

Herbert Smith Freehills launches legal ops graduate training scheme
Includes three-month secondment

What prehistoric skulls show us about sperm and cyborgs
Future magic circle trainee Will Holmes examines the conceptions of legal personhood

Addleshaw Goddard, Clyde & Co and Osborne Clarke post solid 2021 financials
Revenues and profits on the rise

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Freshfields reports 5% uplift in revenue and partner profits
PEP hits £1.91 million

Future Baker McKenzie trainee co-hosts legal TV show
Norman Busigu Womuhai quizzes lawyer expert on everyday laws

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