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Freshfields wants at least 20% of its future trainees to come from lower socio-economic backgrounds
Magic Circle player sets new target
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‘I’m a high street trainee with City law ambitions. Should I quit my TC?’
Rookie requires readers' advice
Bar diversity row: is it enough for barristers not to discriminate or should they actively boost inclusion?
Change in barristers' duty contemplated
A&O Shearman offers tips for using AI in TC applications
Contrasts with approach of Big Four accountancy firms and The Bar Council, which ban use of ChatGPT
Watson Farley & Williams keeps 16 of 18 qualifying trainees
All in first-choice spots
Slaughter and May raises newly qualified lawyer pay to £150,000
Pay review brought forward following recent market movement
Dentons launches ‘low carbon service’ with lawyers working from home, e-signatures and no printing
Carbon footprint reduced by 44%
Burges Salmon smashes its financials: profit up by nearly 50%
PEP also sees over 40% growth
Aspiring lawyer’s career prospects ‘utterly destroyed’ after role in violent disorder during riots
Law student also handed 14-month jail sentence
Simmons & Simmons takes City NQ lawyer pay to £120,000
Bristol associates also see rise to £76.5k
Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the weekend
‘Has anyone tried to negotiate a bigger SQE maintenance grant?’
Aspiring lawyer worries about making ends meet
RPC expands solicitor apprenticeship programme to London
10 spots available
The best social media posts of the week
A round-up of online musings, memes and more
Eversheds raises NQ lawyer pay in London to £100k
Regional rates move to £65.5k
Why I ditched the office to become a ‘digital nomad’ lawyer
Catrin Le Rendu juggles her legal career with playing SkyScanner roulette
SQE2 pass rate rises again to 79%
Over 2,000 aspiring lawyers sat latest exams
Urgent appeal launched to re-home trainees amid US firm’s London office closure
10 current and future trainee roles at risk