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Allen & Overy sets 35% ethnic minority target for trainees

Magic circle firm also wants to retain more black NQs as part of wider diversity push

Jul 29 2020 1:49pm
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Hogan Lovells cuts NQ pay and freezes salaries for some trainees

Exclusive: Second year rookies to remain on first year salaries

Jun 18 2020 3:25pm
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Taylor Wessing furloughs lawyers and green lights flexi-working scheme

Bonus payments will be split into two instalments

Jun 11 2020 11:22am
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How to make it as an international commercial lawyer

Three White & Case solicitors based in London, Paris and New York, share insights from their career journeys

May 4 2020 1:24pm
Former Milbank junior lawyer probed over ‘opportunistic’ COVID-19 mentoring site

Singapore-based associate accused of targeting vulnerable TC hunters with costly online offering

May 4 2020 11:18am
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Macfarlanes posts 80% spring trainee retention score

One rookie leaves to set up healthcare business

Apr 14 2020 12:17pm
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Trainees flock home to mum and dad amid coronavirus pandemic

Be a magic circle hotshot from your childhood bedroom

Apr 6 2020 9:22am
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Law under lockdown: Junior lawyers share their home-working experiences

Some love it, some not so much…

Apr 2 2020 9:12am
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Stephenson Harwood keeps 9 out of 12 spring qualifying trainees

A result of 75%

Mar 25 2020 9:11am
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Revealed: The best law firms for tech 2020

‘We use bitcoin technology to purchase coffees’

Mar 6 2020 11:30am
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Allen & Overy rounds off magic circle spring retention season with 81% result

30 out of 37

Mar 6 2020 8:55am
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What it’s like working at a global law firm outside London

Three Hogan Lovells associates based in the firm’s Birmingham office tell all to Legal Cheek Careers

Feb 12 2020 12:03pm

Freshfields keeps 35 out of 39 spring qualifying trainees

90%

Feb 11 2020 11:10am
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A former commercial litigator’s advice to training contract applicants

‘Your first job may not be your dream job but it could be a step you need to take to achieve your ambitions’, says ULaw Reading campus manager Margaret Matthews

Feb 5 2020 10:56am
Slaughter and May bumps associate pay by up to 8%

Rises follow last summer’s improved six-figure packages for NQs

Jan 10 2020 1:41pm
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Revealed: The law firms with the best perks 2020

Junior lawyers are a pretty pampered bunch but which firms offer the perkiest of perks?

Jan 2 2020 8:47am
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Revealed: The best law firms for training and quality of work 2019-20

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Dec 6 2019 8:58am
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Revealed: Law firms’ average arrive and leave the office times 2019-20

Who’s totting-up 12 hour workdays and who’s home in time for Tipping Point?

Nov 29 2019 9:09am
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‘We’re not just paying lip service to innovation — it’s part of our culture’

CMS real estate senior associate Simon Porter talks tech ahead of our ‘Innovation and the law’ event in Edinburgh

Nov 27 2019 2:45pm
Exclusive research: average time trainees and junior lawyers spend at work falls to lowest in four years

As pay keeps rising

Nov 21 2019 10:17am
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Taylor Wessing lawyers open up about mental health

Partners and associates share experiences of handling stress at work

Oct 31 2019 10:26am