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Combines with Lewis Roca next year
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'Showed a lack of integrity', says SRA
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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