Category: News
White & Case keeps 15 of its 18 London NQs following 17% salary hike
English-qualified lawyers wanted despite Brexit, says US megafirm
Gowling WLG posts 84% autumn retention result
As national outfit Browne Jacobson scores 67%
‘Drunk’ law tutor thrown off Heathrow flight is ordered to pay £4,500
Humanitarian law expert, who the SRA says “is not a member of the profession”, reportedly set to take up teaching role at Durham University
Watch what you tweet: CPS promises to crack down on social media hate crime
But lawyers have concerns
Grateful grad: Bangor student collects first class law degree following successful fundraising appeal
Tuition fee debt had prevented the wannabe lawyer from graduating
Freshfields sends Manchester paralegals on mini-secondments to London, Dubai and Germany
Magic circler extends trainee perk to northern rookies
Solicitor who made anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist Facebook comments handed 12-month suspension
He dared a member of the public to report him, so they did
Linklaters keeps 47 of its 56 trainees upon qualification
Magic circle retains 84% of rookies as newly qualified solicitors
Piers Morgan tells US lawyer that Harvard Law School is ‘somewhere south of Dumb & Dumber’
But gets case law wrong
Ince & Co keeps nine out of ten NQs
As London litigation specialist Stewarts Law retains just one
City solicitor turned East End teacher set to send 95% of pupils to Russell Group unis
Two students even went to White & Case’s Abu Dhabi office for work experience
Strictly Come Dancing: Glasgow law graduate and ex-corporate lawyer Susan Calman announced as contestant
Will she dance with a gavel like Judge Rinder?
Tieless at Travers: City law firm ditches corporate dress code in favour of new casual approach
Unless within eyeshot of a client
Paralegal who worked for two firms at the same time barred from legal profession
A big price to pay for some extra cash
Mass exodus at Mansfield 1 Gray’s Inn Square as 20 barristers join Goldsmith Chambers
Exclusive: Just eight months after merger deal
Lawyers ‘glad’ they didn’t have to cross examine Taylor Swift as pop star’s sassy testimony hits headlines
‘He had a handful of my ass’
23 out of Macfarlanes’ 25 qualifying trainees given permanent jobs
The other two accepted fixed term contracts; each can expect to earn at least £81,300
Future lawyer daughter of top QC in acid attack shame
Emily Bowen's reported place to study law at Aberdeen Uni put on hold as she's sent to prison
You can now do a training contract funded by Children in Need
Social welfare solicitor scheme offers more places than ever
Latham & Watkins, Dentons and Taylor Wessing reveal mixed retention fortunes
Some good, some not so good