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Exclusive research reveals training contract numbers remain stable — despite talk of a ‘graduate jobpocalypse’
We've tracked eight years of data from leading City law firms
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Minimum wage hike could put students off becoming lawyers, says Law Society boss
Why bother with uni and the SQE when non-graduate jobs pay the same as a solicitor at a small firm?
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