News
RPC posts low 42% autumn retention rate
Five out of 12 qualifying trainees kept on
Trainee solicitor calls on government to give people time off work to make life-saving stem cell donations
Paul Fletcher-Herd launches online petition
Best of the blogs
Weekly round-up of the top legal blogosphere posts
Slaughter and May raises newly qualified salary to £92k plus bonus in pay package that sees it join the ‘100 Club’
Total package is worth over £100,000
Leigh Day junior lawyer apologises after suspension for ‘sarcastic’ Hitler tweet
Ex-Labour council candidate Aman Thakar appeared on BBC's Tory leadership debate
Legal profession launches gender equality pledge
Signatories commit to supporting women into top lawyer roles
BPP University to be sold
Law school set to change hands again in big money deal
SDT refuses to drop case against Freshfields partner accused of sexual misconduct
Ryan Beckwith previously argued charges were beyond regulator's remit
Judge tells cocaine user he ‘should suffer no more than former Lord Chancellor’
Even the courts are mocking Michael Gove's coke admission
Fine for drunk trainee solicitor who spat at bouncer
Pleaded guilty to acting in an aggressive manner
Durham Uni teams up with ex-Slaughter and May partner to launch first LLB ‘pensions law’ module
Former magic circle lawyer Philip Bennett appointed visiting professor
‘Not on your life!’ Lord Sumption rules out move into politics
Ex-Supreme Court justice's comments came during final BBC Reith Lecture
The best social media snaps from the London Legal Walk
15,000 walkers go the distance for charity
Average UK law firm partner pay breaks £200,000
Legal sector continuing to grow despite Brexit, according to research
Pinsent Masons bumps London NQ pay to £72,500
Rises in regions and Scotland too
Tory leadership debate: Legal Twitterati slams ex-magic circle lawyer Dominic Raab
The criticism came thick and fast
Student turned porn star quit LLB after being bombarded with online abuse
Ella Hughes has since completed her law degree at the Open University
Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from the weekend
Magic circle and US law firms ‘must change the way they work’ or face ‘doom’, warns the FT
Will £100k+ for newly qualified solicitors prove a high water mark?
Herbert Smith Freehills partner reported to SRA over ‘aggressive and intimidating behaviour’
Allegedly told sexual harassment claimant's lawyers she’d be ‘toast’