Category: News

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

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

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

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

Law Island? Ulster Uni grad becomes dating show’s latest legally-minded contestant
Matthew MacNabb joins Love Island as part of Casa Amor twist

Top judge slams BSB over ‘injustice’ to student wrongly kicked off bar training course
Ryan Eve vindicated in High Court after regulator's blunders

Solicitor apprenticeships jump 40% in one year
New pathway to qualification gains popularity as SQE roll-out nears