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US law firm duo dish out COVID bonuses to London lawyers

Associates at Simpson Thacher and Akin Gump rewarded up to £31,000 for lockdown endeavours

Oct 26 2020 9:20am
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Fieldfisher boss: ‘My heart drops when I see NQ lawyers in US firms earning more than some of our partners’

Six-figure pay packets ‘unsustainable’, agrees Pinsents senior partner

Oct 22 2020 1:47pm
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White & Case ups NQ solicitor pay to £130k — a boost of £25k

Trainees and associates also handed sizeable rises

Oct 5 2020 12:16pm
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Milbank dishes out COVID bonuses to London junior lawyers

Associates can receive between £5,800 and £30,800, depending on experience

Sep 17 2020 12:22pm
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US firms hold the MoneyLaw line

Akin Gump, Vinson & Elkins, Sidley and Debevoise have ‘no plans’ to reduce London trainee or NQ pay

Jul 23 2020 10:09am
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Covington & Burling ups London NQ solicitor pay to £120,000

Extra £20,000

Oct 29 2019 9:05am

Brit lawyers could boost salary by over a third working in US

From £66,329 to £93,284

Oct 16 2019 11:55am
£100k NQ pay is stoking tensions within magic circle law firms

Senior associates annoyed by big junior lawyer pay rises, says report

Aug 16 2019 9:42pm
I have training contract offers from magic circle firms in the Middle East and a US MoneyLaw outfit in London — which do I choose?

I would appreciate readers’ advice

Jul 19 2019 11:01am
City pay war latest: Herbert Smith Freehills ups NQ package to £105,000

New six-figure sum includes bonus

Jul 2 2019 3:04pm
Linklaters becomes final magic circle firm to up NQ pay package to £100,000

City pay war continues

Jul 1 2019 12:34pm
Allen & Overy ups NQ solicitor package to £100,000 as City pay war intensifies

Six-figure sum includes sign-on bonus

Jun 25 2019 11:50am

Hogan Lovells ups newly qualified pay to £90k plus bonus in package worth up to £117k

Exclusive: Transatlantic firm makes MoneyLaw move

Jun 24 2019 1:16pm
Slaughter and May raises newly qualified salary to £92k plus bonus in pay package that sees it join the ‘100 Club’

Total package is worth over £100,000

Jun 20 2019 7:58pm
Magic circle and US law firms ‘must change the way they work’ or face ‘doom’, warns the FT

Will £100k+ for newly qualified solicitors prove a high water mark?

Jun 14 2019 3:51pm
How Freshfields’ £100k NQ pay will change the profession

Magic circle embrace of MoneyLaw set to have far-reaching effects

May 15 2019 8:52am
Freshfields raises newly qualified solicitor pay to £100,000

Exclusive: MoneyLaw reaches the magic circle

May 7 2019 3:05pm
The story of how 25-year-old City lawyers came to earn £143,000 a year

A handy video explainer

Jul 11 2018 11:58am

Magic circle duo join the MoneyLaw madness

Allen & Overy and Linklaters latest to pay US newly qualified lawyers eye-watering figure that works out just shy of £150k

Jun 29 2018 10:22am
Latham & Watkins becomes latest firm to hike London junior solicitor pay to £143,000

US summer pay war continues to rock UK market

Jun 25 2018 2:09pm
Akin Gump ups London NQ pay to coveted £143,000

Follows moves by Kirkland & Ellis, Milbank and Simpson Thacher

Jun 25 2018 10:48am