Category: News
A&O Shearman follows Magic Circle rivals in upping NQ lawyer salaries to £150k
Just Slaughters left to increase
ULaw student reaches Miss GB London final
Kiran Nirvan will compete in July
SRA eyes £66 million SQE income next year
More than double previous year
Paralegal texted client urging them not to cooperate with firm investigation
Filed 'misleading' info with land registry
Pinsents raises NQ lawyer salaries to £97k
£63k in regions
Regulator hikes compensation levy by 300% following Axiom Ince fiasco
£90 per solicitor
SQE2 pass rate climbs to 73%
Over 870 aspiring lawyers completed latest sitting
Clifford Chance joins City pay war with improved £150k NQ lawyer salary
Follows Freshfields and Linklaters
Lawyers: it pays to be AI savvy
Tech skills linked to higher salaries for legal professionals
Klarna encourages in-house lawyers to use ChatGPT for contract drafting
Bad news for external law firms?
HSF trainee quits mid-TC to sell application advice online
Firm declines to comment
Land law update: seabed is not land
High Court ruling
Receptionist who couldn’t pronounce firm’s name loses employment case
Employed eight days
BSB granted extra powers to tackle misbehaving barristers
Interim suspensions
Queen Mary and BARBRI create Russell Group’s first solicitor apprenticeship pathway
London uni in early talks with possible partner firms
Trowers to take on solicitor apprentices from 2025
More firms embrace TC alternative
Could we soon be saying bye-bye to barristers’ wigs?
Bar Council working group reviews future of court dress
Independent review confirms reissued SQE1 results are correct
Kaplan drafted in top statistician after 175 students were incorrectly told they had failed
Young lawyers urge MPs to visit ‘legal aid frontline’
Two MPs have already planned visits
And the winners of the Legal Cheek Awards 2024 are…
Who won what: revealed 🏆