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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

Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the weekend

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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

Best of the blogs
Weekly round-up of the top legal blogosphere posts

Mishcon to face disciplinary tribunal over alleged client account failures
Allegations are yet unproven

Goodwin ups London NQ pay to £147k — second rise this year
Up 7% from £137,500

UK law firms continue to post 2021 financials
Results in for Macfarlanes, Ince & Co, WFW and TLT

Pupil barrister numbers down nearly a third in 30 years
757 in 1991 ⤵️ 542 in 2020

RPC retains 12 out of 14 NQ solicitors
Posts whopping 49.5% uptick in partner profits

Lawtech business gives staff Fridays off… forever
Could law firms follow?

Male solicitors four times more likely to appear before disciplinary tribunal
Despite fairly even gender split in profession

Shearman offers lawyers 40% home-working option
New policy will see some support roles go fully remote

The burnout profession? Why City law culture needs to change
Ex-corporate lawyer Charlene Gisele reflects on her own mental health struggles while offering her top tips to prevent work-related exhaustion before it starts

Dominic Cummings brands legal Twitter royalty as ‘charlatans’
Former Downing Street adviser lashes leading lawyers over Brexit views

Norton Rose Fulbright ‘software error’ causes staff pronouns to change in emails
'He/him' to 'she/her' and vice versa