Category: News

What top City firms will pay in maintenance to future SQE trainees
Financial grants range from £12,500 to £17,000

BARBRI strikes soft skills partnership with O Shaped Lawyer
SQE prep provider looks to equip students with human and business know-how

Irwin Mitchell launches in Liverpool and Cardiff
No plans to offer TCs just yet

NQ lawyer salaries at Weil hit £150k
Elsewhere HFW increases by 16% to £85k

Hill Dickinson provides staff with emergency childcare cover as part of new wellbeing initiative
Support also includes in-home care for adults and elders and virtual tutoring

HSF ups financial support for future trainees studying the LPC to £12,500
New figure matches majority of magic circle

Top London lawyers reject US congressman’s accusation of ‘enabling malign activities of Russian oligarchs’
Carter-Ruck, CMS and other top firms hit back at representative Steve Cohen

Welsh law firm partners with virtual law school for SQE training
Acuity Law 🤝 College of Legal Practice

Top TC application tips from a future City trainee on TikTok
Courtesy of Legal Cheek's Rona Ankrah

Irwin Mitchell hands lawyers £900 to help with rising cost of living
One-off profit share payment to be paid out this month

Pinsents ups NQ lawyer pay to £92k in London and £61k in regions
Rises of 23% and 36%

SRA appoints new education and training chief
Former Ofqual boss Julie Swan replaces retiring Julie Brannan

London NQ lawyer pay reaches £164,000
Akin Gump joins pay war with new converted rate

Students gunning for high-paying jobs in law, medicine and finance could save £20k by taking a gap year, experts claim
Student loan reforms mean wannabe lawyers 'could gain substantially' by delaying uni studies until 2023

Justice minister quits over Boris Johnson’s ‘partygate’ fine
Commercial barrister Lord Wolfson slams 'repeated rule-breaking, and breaches of the criminal law, in Downing Street’

Bakers backs ‘up and coming’ fintech firms with £100k worth of free legal support
City player to advise three UK start-ups over six-month period

Further speakers unveiled ahead of LegalEdCon 2022
High-profile figures from legal education and training among those to join roster as one month countdown begins

Slaughters increases NQ lawyer rates to £115k
Boosts of up to 20% across all PQE levels too

Kim Kardashian essay to be model answer for future law students
The social media superstar’s written efforts receive a 'nearly perfect score'

Davis Polk joins City pay war with £160k NQ salary
Firm hikes trainee pay (again!), as does Gibson Dunn