Ashurst unveils spring retention rate of 85%
17 trainees from a cohort of 20 commit their future to the silver circle firm
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From Exeter to Ashurst: How being a campus ambassador helped me secure a prestigious City training contract
Ahead of Ashurst’s campus ambassador application deadline, Rebecca Fenton reflects on what she got out of the role — which the firm offers at 11 unis
Ashurst to save three King & Wood Mallesons trainees who have been left in training contract limbo
But Slaughter and May remains tightlipped over reports it will do the same
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What’s it like to work internationally?
Ashurst lawyers of different levels of seniority share their experiences
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Why the show will go on for international corporate lawyers
Take the world economy doom-mongers with a pinch of salt, urges Ashurst partner Nick Cheshire, this could actually be a good time to be entering the profession
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Event: From Australia to London and everywhere in between — life as a global business lawyer
Commercial Awareness Question Time comes to Ashurst
Junior lawyer pay upped at Ashurst, Norton Rose Fulbright, Ince & Co and Withers
Modest pay increases between 3% and 8%
City in-house lawyer faces trial over allegation of sexual assault
Defendant accused of smacking a woman’s bottom, pouring a beer over her and calling her an “Australian slut”
Top firms release their full year financial results and profits per equity partner continue to rise across the board
Gravy train continues on merry way but will Brexit prove to be a buffer?
Silver circle law firm Ashurst boosts 12 to partner level
Four women among those promoted as global law firm chases 40% female partnership target
Ashurst keeps 15 out of 19 qualifying trainees
79% of rookies stay with firm
Hogan Lovells denies joining movement to allocate work blindly to junior lawyers
But the firm has made contact with the guru attempting to revolutionise working patterns at rivals
Trainee recruitment bonanza: Firms up TC numbers — led by White & Case with 33% rise
Other big name to boost graduate hiring is Ashurst with 12.5% increase; five mid-tier outfits also offering more training contracts
Silver circle pair reveal retention rates — and one is much better than the other
Contrasting retention fortunes at Macfarlanes and Ashurst
Herbert Smith Freehills and Ashurst latest to jump on contextual recruiting bandwagon
Both firms adopt diversity tool after informally assessing recruits against it for last year
Through Gritted Teeth: Aussie Lawyers Tell Of Delight At Firm’s ‘Merger’ With London Giant Ashurst In £1Million Ad Campaign
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The reality of taking the CILEx route: ‘I work just as hard as a solicitor for less money and less respect’ 
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Exclusive: There are 16,000 barristers currently practising, just 110 have criminal convictions 
Barristers and football agents team up to kick off new ‘innovative’ legal business
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