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BCLP keeps 19 out of 22 autumn qualifying trainees
Secure NQ roles in London, Manchester and Hong Kong
Applications now open for Legal Cheek Virtual Pupillage Fair
Leading chambers and law schools return on 9 October for UK's biggest bar careers event
Pay training contract and qualifying work experience trainees the same, Law Society tells firms
Chancery Lane calls for parity across both routes ahead of SQE roll-out
NQ lawyer pay hits £90k at Travers
Junior lawyer salaries could rise to as much as £117,000 with bonuses, says firm, which also confirms 84% retention score
Birkbeck law student dumped from Love Island villa
Back to the books for Sharon Gaffka?
Osborne Clarke raises London junior lawyer pay to £80k
Rises in regions and for trainees too
How the Satanic lawyer created the billionaire legal sector
As City lawyers today teem over their financial results, future trainee Will Holmes suggests they should spare a thought -- a prayer even -- for the Satanic lawyer and the creation of purgatory
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Linklaters retains 45 of 48 autumn qualifying trainees
All permanent positions
Bar course pass rates drop 18% during pandemic
Just 10% of BPTC grads started pupillage in 2020-21, new stats show
Fraudsters use fake Reed Smith ID card in Bitcoin ‘romance scam’
Regulator issues public warning
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A&O partner profits leap 17% to £1.9 million
Revenue rises to £1.77 billion
Law student-led Oxford Uni a cappella group belt out Bruno Mars hit
🎶 I'ma leave the door open 🎶
8 legal cases that shaped history… retold on TikTok
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Slaughter and May offers junior lawyers ‘job share’ option
Magic circle firm pilots series of flexi-work schemes which see associates work reduced hours for less pay
Hogan Lovells and Simmons latest to up junior lawyer pay
£100k and £88k
City firms publish strong financial results despite Covid disruption
Revenue rises at HSF, Eversheds, Fieldfisher and Kennedys
Pinsents ditches billing targets in bonus shake-up
International firm will now set financial rewards against criteria including colleague trust and environmental impact
Macfarlanes boosts NQ lawyer pay to £90k as it confirms 88% trainee retention score
Rookies also handed rises