Category: News

Top paying magic circle firm keeps NQ pay at £100k

Freshfields freeze; fellow big payer HSF also declines to cut

Jun 17 2020 5:30pm

Pregnant law firm partner calls out top QC for ‘every day sexism’

DWF's Naomi Pryde says unnamed silk contacted a male junior lawyer about her case, assuming she'd be 'indisposed'

Jun 17 2020 4:47pm

CMS posts 72% trainee retention score

44 out of 61

Jun 17 2020 11:10am

Allen & Overy reopens City HQ on ‘permission-only basis’

Distancing measures put in place

Jun 17 2020 10:10am

Over half of legal workers stressed about job hunting amid coronavirus

One in four have put their search on hold

Jun 17 2020 9:13am

New Instagram account allows City lawyers to anonymously submit their ‘juicy secrets’

'Magic Circle Confessions' launched earlier this month

Jun 16 2020 12:00pm

Dentons rolls out ‘track and trace’ system as it reopens London office

Will operate at 25% capacity with no movement between floors

Jun 16 2020 10:12am

Revealed: The practice areas most (and least) impacted by coronavirus

Lockdown has hit certain specialisms hardest -- but there are reasons for optimism, writes LexisNexis marketing chief Christopher O’Connor

Jun 16 2020 9:18am

Harvard trumps Oxbridge in global law school rankings — again

World league table looks at key criteria including employer and academic reputation

Jun 15 2020 12:14pm

Ban for rookie solicitor who ‘falsified’ LPC certificate to dupe regulator

Kulvinder Kooner was applying to be added to the roll

Jun 15 2020 10:53am

Ex-Baker McKenzie boss who attempted to kiss junior lawyer fined £55,000

Amounted to serious professional misconduct, tribunal finds

Jun 12 2020 4:04pm

Junior lawyers call for super-exam delay as it warns MCQs may be too easy

War of words between JLD and regulator rumbles on

Jun 12 2020 12:03pm

Uni law degrees don’t prepare grads for law firm life, report claims

Bosses bemoan 'basic grammatical mistakes' and lack of commercial awareness

Jun 12 2020 8:37am

Unexpected death of former Baker McKenzie chief was suicide, inquest hears

Paul Rawlinson took his own life at Swiss treatment centre

Jun 11 2020 11:59am

Taylor Wessing furloughs lawyers and green lights flexi-working scheme

Bonus payments will be split into two instalments

Jun 11 2020 11:22am

Mills & Reeve keeps 16 out of 18 autumn NQs

One on fixed-term deal

Jun 10 2020 12:04pm

Birkbeck Uni law graduate looks to privately prosecute Dominic Cummings for Durham trip

Mahsa Taliefar is seeking £300,000 in online fundraiser

Jun 10 2020 9:45am