Category: News
Shoosmiths raises London NQ lawyer pay by 16% to £87,000
From £58,000 in regions
Willkie Farr and Davis Polk boost training contract numbers in London
Six TCs on offer at both firms in 2023
City Consortium reveals future trainees will complete ‘mini-training seats’ with virtual law firm as part of SQE prep
New details emerge during LegalEdCon 2022
HFW moving to new ‘sustainable’ City office
New HQ features rainwater harvesting and air filtration systems as well as 'highest solar panels in London'
Capsticks writes off trainee debt after bumper pandemic profits
LPC and SQE loans reportedly written off
Slaughters targets 90% emissions reduction by 2040
Joins growing number of City firms implementing green goals 🌍
First class law grad ditches legal career to play Call of Duty professionally
Jade MacIntyre, 24, says she makes more streaming than lawyering
A fifth of law firms will require LPC grads to sit parts of the SQE
Future trainees to undergo further training but at firm's expense, Legal Cheek research reveals
SQE prep provider pledges to reduce law fair merch in new eco push
BARBRI joins elite City firms in signing up to the Sustainable Recruitment Alliance
O Shaped Lawyer strikes first law firm deal
Browne Jacobson joins soft skills movement
Ropes & Gray launches social mobility work experience programme
Two lucky participants will go on to receive £20k scholarship, vac scheme place and long-term mentoring courtesy of US law firm
Latest speakers announced as profession gears up for LegalEdCon 2022
Leading figures to descend on Kings Cross as Legal Cheek’s future of legal education and training conference returns this Thursday
On this day, 100 years ago, the first woman was called to the bar
Dr Ivy Williams made history on 10 May 1922
‘The overall culture in law is damaging many junior lawyers’, JLD chair warns
Mental Health Awareness Week prompts renewed calls for change as wellbeing charity LawCare extends online support
Squire Patton Boggs bumps NQ rates to £100k from January 2023
£65k in the regions
Ince launches investigation into allegation top lawyers ‘disrespected’ waitress
Claim made in viral Twitter post
HSF junior lawyer makes Forbes power list for ‘alternative Old Boys network’
Sophie Pender recognised for social mobility efforts
Solicitor who injected food with blood found not guilty due to insanity
Leoaai Elghareeb suffered psychosis during supermarket rampage last summer, causing nearly £500,000 of damages
Midlands barristers launch £15k bar course scholarship for students with ‘strong’ regional links
Understood to be first of its kind
Would you take a pay cut to WFH permanently? 88% of our readers say no
Findings follow Stephenson Harwood's announcement last week that it will reduce salaries by 20% if staff choose to work from home full-time