The big 5-0: Two Bristol firms reach unprecedented NQ pay milestone
Osborne Clarke and Simmons & Simmons lead West Country pay war, but will other outfits follow suit?
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Squire Patton Boggs boosts London junior lawyer salaries by 10%
Exclusive: As it records disappointing autumn retention result
London law firm denies knowledge of advert for trainee solicitor job that pays just £10k
You’d earn double that in Aldi, and five times at other outfits
Simmons & Simmons, Holman Fenwick Willan and Ince & Co boost junior lawyer salaries
Trainees also handed modest rises
Norton Rose Fulbright raises NQ pay to £75k
Trainee money is increased too
Allen & Overy tops magic circle financial results growth league, with Clifford Chance coming in second
Linklaters is third and Freshfields fourth, while Slaughter and May declines to take part in summer bling fest
Macfarlanes sharply raises NQ pay to over £80,000
Exclusive: £10k increase for firm’s newly qualified lawyers
Jones Day joins ‘100 Club’ with 18% pay boost for junior lawyers
Exclusive: The only way is up for trainee pay too
Regional rises: CMS ups Bristol trainee pay by 16%
Exclusive: Newly-merged mega firm also throws extra cash at NQs north and south of the border
Hogan Lovells bumps junior lawyer pay packets by 5% to £75,000
Trainees will take home an extra £1,000
White & Case boosts London NQ pay packets by 17% to £105,000
Trainees will trouser an extra £2,000
Shearman & Sterling hikes London NQ pay by over 10% to £105,000
More experienced associates also cash in
Pay trainees and NQs less; pay mid-level associates more, argues influential commentator
Rookie lawyer remuneration in London may have reached unsustainable levels
Edinburgh Napier LLB-er petitions Scottish parliament to end ‘extreme discrimination’ against English students
Rebecca Jeynes wants to train to be a lawyer in Scotland, but she can’t get any funding because she’s from North Yorkshire
Cornerstone Barristers ups pupillage award by 25% to £50,000
Chambers responsible for saving Fabric nightclub chucks extra cash at its pupils
University unveils new scholarship in name of late legal columnist and professor Gary Slapper
But it won’t be available to law students
It will cost you over £500 more to do the LPC this year than it would have done last year
2017/2018 price list shows fees up by as much as 11% at some universities
Reed Smith boosts newly qualified solicitor pay to £70k
NQ salaries rise by £7,000 as target hours head north too
Young judges see pay packets swell to nearly £200,000 in wake of age discrimination case victory
Exclusive: High Court and Court of Appeal judges’ salaries upped by 11%
Research: Average barrister earnings equate to £60,000 salary
Bar Council claims overheads account for ‘half of a barrister’s turnover’
Posh solicitors pocket almost £7,000 more than ‘working class’ colleagues
Profession dominated by those from “advantaged backgrounds”, says government-backed report
Research: Over a third of trainee solicitors are being paid BELOW the Law Society’s recommended minimum salary
Chancery Lane figure is being ignored by many firms
Clifford Chance’s profits jump by nearly a quarter as firm prepares to drastically cut training contract numbers
Magic circle giant’s partners earning more than ever before
Cleary Gottlieb silent over claims it bills clients for students’ work
Blogosphere report says London office of US firm is charging out its vac schemers
Baker & McKenzie ups junior lawyers’ pay packets to £72,000
A modest increase of 3%
Littleton boosts pupillage award by 23% as plethora of chambers up pay
London sets fall over themselves to throw extra cash at wannabe barristers
Gowling WLG lifts post-Brexit vote pay freeze
International law firm suspended its annual pay review earlier this summer
Stephenson Harwood boosts newly qualified pay packets to £65,000
An extra £500 chucked trainees’ way too
DLA Piper bumps newly qualified pay by 8% to £70,000
Global giant has also chucked extra cash at its regional and Scottish talent
Bird & Bird boosts junior lawyer pay packets to £62,000
City law firm keeps hold of 88% of its autumn NQs
Mayer Brown ups NQ pay packets to £71,500
City giant also reveals 67% autumn retention result
Corporate lawyer, 27, on £72,000 a year saves just £600 a month
Escaping the City to practise ‘fun law’ might not be as easy as you think
Jones Day jacks up newly qualified solicitor pay to £85,000
The firm that Legal Cheek commenters love to hate splashes the cash
Pay rises at Nabarro: Money is up for trainees, NQs and associates
It ain’t MoneyLaw, but boosts not to be sniffed at
Magic circle partners bill £110 for typing ‘yes’ or ‘no’ and hitting ‘send’ on an email, claims law firm costs expert
The knives are out for ‘£1,100 an hour’ City law firms
Shearman & Sterling blitzes magic circle with trainee and NQ pay rises
London office of US firm asserts pay supremacy
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