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Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the weekend
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Careers
How to get a foot on the City law ladder
Ahead of next week’s Legal Cheek-ULaw Summer Virtual Vacation Scheme, Legal Cheek’s Will Holmes caught up with ULaw’s Caroline Carter, Moorgate campus dean and former City lawyer, for her take on the skills future lawyers need
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HSF raises NQ ‘total compensation’ to £107k
Posts 97% autumn trainee retention result
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Linklaters hands lawyers £300 to cover knitting, yoga and meditation classes
Spent via mood-boosting app
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Best of the blogs
Weekly round-up of the top legal blogosphere posts
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Exclusive: Freshfields trainee jokes to fellow rookies ‘the poor are nothing’
Spokesperson says misplaced remark in email ‘not reflective of the firm or its values’
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Elon Musk mocks British wig-wearing barristers
‘Mfs in the 1700s saw this hairstyle and were like YOOOO 🔥🔥🔥’
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DLA Piper London NQ pay hits £88k as trainees handed £1k increases
Rises in regions too
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Quarter of junior lawyers expect to work from the office full-time after ‘Freedom Day’
WFH guidance to be dropped on 19 July
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Linklaters joins magic circle rivals in upping NQ lawyer pay to £100k
New base rate follows similar rises by Clifford Chance and Allen & Overy
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BPP to offer wealth management course to help young lawyers cope with skyrocketing salaries
Some 20-somethings now earn £150k+
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The 6 types of law student you will encounter on exam results day
Which one are you?
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Careers
Aspiring lawyers must be fluent in techspeak
Ahead of tomorrow’s Secrets to Success event — a legal tech special edition — Legal Cheek Careers sat down with ULaw’s Simon George, associate professor and director of Tech Research Academy ULTRA
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CMS becomes latest City firm to launch non-law grad scheme
Four grads to join firm’s new business development and marketing programme this September
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SQE rival for school leavers gets go-ahead
CILEX says new route to qualification will be “more affordable” than Solicitors Qualifying Exam
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Eversheds ups London NQ lawyer pay to £82k
Rises for rookies in regions too
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Pinsents partner profits jump 16% as financial reporting season gets underway
CMS also confirms 2021 results
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Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the weekend
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Royal baby tweet barrister cleared by London law firm
Family Law Cafe finds no evidence of ‘discriminatory practice’ in relation to CEO’s post
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Careers
The benefits of training as a lawyer in the Midlands
Lawyers and legal education experts consider what Birmingham has to offer trainees
