News
Pinsents raises NQ lawyer salaries to £97k
£63k in regions
Regulator hikes compensation levy by 300% following Axiom Ince fiasco
£90 per solicitor
SQE2 pass rate climbs to 73%
Over 870 aspiring lawyers completed latest sitting
Clifford Chance joins City pay war with improved £150k NQ lawyer salary
Follows Freshfields and Linklaters
Lawyers: it pays to be AI savvy
Tech skills linked to higher salaries for legal professionals
Klarna encourages in-house lawyers to use ChatGPT for contract drafting
Bad news for external law firms?
HSF trainee quits mid-TC to sell application advice online
Firm declines to comment
Land law update: seabed is not land
High Court ruling
Bank Holiday round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from the long weekend
Receptionist who couldn’t pronounce firm’s name loses employment case
Employed eight days
‘What do I wear on my vac scheme?’
Fashion advice required
Best of the blogs
Weekly round-up of the top legal blogosphere posts
BSB granted extra powers to tackle misbehaving barristers
Interim suspensions
Queen Mary and BARBRI create Russell Group’s first solicitor apprenticeship pathway
London uni in early talks with possible partner firms
6 lessons learnt from Legally Blonde
What would Elle Woods do?
Trowers to take on solicitor apprentices from 2025
More firms embrace TC alternative
Could we soon be saying bye-bye to barristers’ wigs?
Bar Council working group reviews future of court dress
Independent review confirms reissued SQE1 results are correct
Kaplan drafted in top statistician after 175 students were incorrectly told they had failed
Young lawyers urge MPs to visit ‘legal aid frontline’
Two MPs have already planned visits
Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the weekend