coronavirus
Clydes gives lawyers coloured wristbands so they can indicate how Covid cautious they are
Traffic light system 🚦
Debevoise follows MoFo with London office vaccine mandate
New policy applies to staff and visitors 💉
Get jabbed before office return, MoFo tells London lawyers
First law firm to publicly mandate vaccine policy in UK office
Get jabbed before coming to the office, US firms tell lawyers
Davis Polk and Ropes & Gray to disable ID cards of unvaccinated employees, reports claim
City law firm donates £2 million profit slice to Covid charities
Simmons & Simmons cash contribution follows solid financial results
Bar course pass rates drop 18% during pandemic
Just 10% of BPTC grads started pupillage in 2020-21, new stats show
Quarter of junior lawyers expect to work from the office full-time after ‘Freedom Day’
WFH guidance to be dropped on 19 July
Hogan Lovells and Macfarlanes confirm new flexible working polices
Both offer 40% remote option
Bakers lawyers and staff given option to work remotely up to three days a week
Varied start and finish times too
Weil dishes out £8k Covid bonuses to NQ lawyers
Extra cash for trainees and associates too
GDL student numbers jumped by over a fifth during the pandemic
Covid disruption and SQE replacement contributing factors, report finds
US firm Paul Hastings tells London lawyers work from the office ‘by default’
From 7 September 🗓️
Eversheds lawyers to work from the office two to three days a week
New ‘blended working’ model applies to firm’s trainees too
CMS and Clydes thank lawyers with Covid bonuses
Extra 5% and 3% of salary at each firm
Work from home 50% of the time, Dechert tells lawyers
Simmons also allows staff to work remotely — but for 60%
Slaughter and May to allow trainees to work remotely one day a week
New policy enables ‘majority’ of staff to work away from the office up to 40% of the time
Pinsent Masons repays government furlough money
Fieldfisher restores lawyer and staff pay
Take a Covid-19 test before coming into the office, Skadden tells unvaccinated London lawyers
Internal memo urges staff to get jabbed
SRA: Online exams here to stay
LPC providers given option to continue with proctoring measures post-pandemic
Trainees tell us what they love (and hate) about remote working
Junior lawyers reflect on their mixed experiences as they prepare to return to the office