Category: News
Simmons & Simmons ups newly qualified solicitor base salaries to £79,000
Junior lawyer earnings could exceed £100,000 with bonuses, says firm
UK public prefers Obama over Blair as their ‘ideal lawyer’, survey finds
Hillary Clinton and Nelson Mandela also score highly
Kings Chambers teams up with social mobility charity to launch legal placement scheme for working class students
Each participant will receive £100 to buy suitable clothing
Ashurst joins City pay war with £105,000 NQ solicitor package
Base rate of £84,000 plus bonus
Former Skadden London lawyer caught up in Trump-Russia probe struck off for lying to FBI
City lawyer Alex van der Zwaan accepts professional ban following short jail spell
New Winckworth Sherwood partner emails 600 contacts on first day on the job — forgets to blind copy
Blunder reported to UK data watchdog
UCL law professor appointed first dean of Inner Temple
As Inns of Court two-part barrister training course receives BSB approval
Clifford Chance posts 87% autumn trainee retention score
41 out of 47 qualifying trainees stay put
Average partner profits at Allen & Overy and Linklaters hit £1.7 million
Rises of 1% and 11%
Criminal bar chief creates Love Island translator for lawyers
‘Got a text’ = a new brief has arrived in chambers
Travers Smith joins NQ salary war with package of up to £110,500
Boost comes as City player confirms 4% bump in PEP to £1.25 million
Trio of top judges fend off criticism on £1.2 billion court modernisation programme
Widely-condemned court closures are means of 'liberating capital' where 'money is not limitless', select committee hears
Slaughter and May keeps 37 out of 40 newly qualifying trainee solicitors
Strong 93% retention result comes as magic circle firm ups GDL maintenance grant to £10,000
Selfie-taking lawyer gored by bull during Spanish festival
US criminal defence specialist recovering in hospital
Legal Twitterati sent into overdrive after former PM threatens to take Boris Johnson to court to stop a no-deal Brexit
John Major says he'd consider lawyering up to stop the Queen suspending the House of Commons
Criminal defence solicitor expecting child with Celebrity Big Brother reality star
Couple met after she represented Jeremy McConnell for assaulting Hollyoaks actress Stephanie Davis
This is the ‘behaviour contract’ Love Island contestants have to sign
Strict rules regarding alcohol, drugs, sex, smoking and contact with the outside world
Pride 2019: Lawyers take to London’s streets to celebrate LGBT+ rights
Pride Jubilee marked half-century since Stonewall uprising
Lincoln, Glasgow and Aberystwyth Unis home to nation’s happiest law students
Trio top National Student Survey for LLB satisfaction; ULaw performs strongly across the board; Russell Group struggle
Edge Hill Uni law grad left tetraplegic after horror car smash set to realise barrister dream
Simon Arnold defies odds to secure pupillage