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Pupil barrister pay hits £75,000 as top London sets boost awards
Rises at One Essex Court, Monckton, Matrix, 7KBW, 39 Essex and Outer Temple
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Swimming pool ✅ gym ✅ hair salon ✅
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France may hold the answer, writes future magic circle trainee Will Holmes
Taylor Wessing ups NQ lawyer pay to £81k and confirms 74% retention score
Rises for trainees too
Herbert Smith Freehills launches legal ops graduate training scheme
Includes three-month secondment
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Future magic circle trainee Will Holmes examines the conceptions of legal personhood
Addleshaw Goddard, Clyde & Co and Osborne Clarke post solid 2021 financials
Revenues and profits on the rise
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Freshfields reports 5% uplift in revenue and partner profits
PEP hits £1.91 million
Future Baker McKenzie trainee co-hosts legal TV show
Norman Busigu Womuhai quizzes lawyer expert on everyday laws
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Mishcon to face disciplinary tribunal over alleged client account failures
Allegations are yet unproven
Goodwin ups London NQ pay to £147k — second rise this year
Up 7% from £137,500
UK law firms continue to post 2021 financials
Results in for Macfarlanes, Ince & Co, WFW and TLT
Pupil barrister numbers down nearly a third in 30 years
757 in 1991 ⤵️ 542 in 2020
RPC retains 12 out of 14 NQ solicitors
Posts whopping 49.5% uptick in partner profits
Lawtech business gives staff Fridays off… forever
Could law firms follow?
Male solicitors four times more likely to appear before disciplinary tribunal
Despite fairly even gender split in profession
Shearman offers lawyers 40% home-working option
New policy will see some support roles go fully remote