Category: News
Top criminal QC: ‘Let’s give disadvantaged kids role models beyond pop stars and YouTubers’
Chris Daw QC’s social mobility film featured on BBC1’s The One Show goes viral among profession
Clyde & Co bumps trainee and junior lawyer pay as it confirms autumn retention score of 83%
One NQ is on a fixed term deal
5 Essex Court launches first junior barrister-run Instagram account
London chambers hopes to demystify the profession
Bircham Dyson Bell and Pitmans to vote on £50 million tie-up
Firms reveal 'exploratory merger discussions'
Solicitor fined £2,000 after being caught drink-driving THREE TIMES in just one month
Regulator tipped off about convictions by two members of the public
Open University law student fails in bid to sue six classmates over ‘defamatory’ forum comments
Samantha Exley handed £8,000 costs bill
Law grad who hopes to become ‘first Romani female barrister in England’ launches crowdfunding appeal to help cover BPTC fees
Brigitta Balogh is looking to raise £1,800 to cover registration costs
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner posts 79% autumn retention score
Recently-merged global player retains 15 of its 19 rookies
Mid-size money movers: Forsters, Trowers & Hamlins, Withers and Farrer & Co up junior lawyer pay
Some trainees also awarded modest salary boosts
Law grad-backed Oxford University a cappella group jet to the US to shoot new Justin Timberlake cover track
The musical troupe includes a future Clifford Chance trainee
Top QC ditches curvy blond
One Crown Office Row's Marina Wheeler QC and Boris Johnson confirm divorce
Norton Rose Fulbright unveils 90% autumn retention score
Global giant retains 28 out of 31 rookies
Allen & Overy releases partner gender pay gap data following criticism from MPs
Magic circle outfit publishes 2018 and 2017 results
Allen & Overy and O’Melveny & Myers chiefs meet at Frankfurt hotel as mega-merger talks continue
Two months after representatives from both firms met in London
LawCatz: New TV chat show aims to demystify the legal world with the help of lawyers
Pilot to air on Sky next month, according to programme’s creator
Linklaters rounds off magic circle autumn retention season with 73% score
Global titan keeps 43 out of 59 qualifying trainees
Three-quarters of new deputy High Court judges attended Oxbridge
And over 70% are men
Mayer Brown boosts junior lawyer pay to £78,000
Trainee salaries and LPC maintenance grant also up
Junior lawyer leaves Slaughter and May after signing for Juventus
And lands sports writing gig with a national newspaper
Sidley Austin tops market by hiking LPC maintenance grant to £11,000
An uplift of nearly 60%
ULaw appoints ex-Supreme Court president Lord Neuberger as chancellor
He stepped down from the UK's top bench last year