Category: News

Taylor Wessing boosts London NQ lawyer pay to £71,000
A rise of 13%

KWM takes up flash new office space in ‘Walkie-Talkie’ — 18 months after UK arm’s catastrophic collapse
Sixty trainees lost their jobs

Clifford Chance ups training contract numbers from 80 to 95 in first magic circle increase since 2008 financial crisis
Exclusive: TCs soar by nearly 20% ?

SRA picks Kaplan to deliver new solicitor super-exam
Eight-year deal

Partners from US giant O’Melveny & Myers jet into London to hold mega-merger talks with Allen & Overy
Discussions reach 'due diligence stage', report claims

Clifford Chance launches lawtech training contract that leads to qualification as a solicitor
New scheme will run alongside firm’s conventional training contract

‘I’ve made my year’s earnings in a month’, says Love Island solicitor Rosie Williams
She's understood to have deals with a betting company and a number of top beauty brands

Taylor Wessing keeps 21 out of 23 autumn qualifying trainees
One associate-to-be is on a fixed term contract

Criminal solicitor struck off for submitting false invoices to law firms to help fund cocaine habit
He issued 40 fake invoices of £100 each

Junior lawyer MP ‘robustly’ denies lying about speeding
Commercial property law specialist charged with two counts of perverting the course of justice

ULaw’s plans to move Chester campus on hold
Housing project at law school site rejected by planners

Research: Law firms are failing to support qualifying trainees who aren’t kept on
Three quarters of rookie lawyers admit to having no back up plan

Travers Smith posts perfect 100% retention score
All 21 qualifying trainees staying put

Family solicitor suspended from practice for glassing ex-boyfriend
She was convicted of ABH

A bunch of red pens and a smile: Gray’s Inn unveils new Lady Hale portrait
It will hang alongside paintings of Lord Bingham and Lord Thomas

Cambridge law grads behind case-predicting robot part ways
Mystery surrounds split

Slaughter and May keeps 32 out of 37 qualifying trainees
Autumn score of 86%