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Pinsents pay: NQs up to £68,000 while trainees handed £2,000 increases
A good summer for City law pay
DLA Piper bumps London NQ pay by 7% to £75,000
Global outfit’s trainees will also receive extra cash
Stephenson Harwood boosts trainee lawyer pay as it becomes latest firm to allow working from home
An extra £1,000 chucked NQs’ way too
Judge Judy earned more money than Kim Kardashian-West last year
Her net worth is double that of the reality star
US outfit Vinson & Elkins rockets to very top of trainee pay table
Firm’s soon-to-be lawyers will earn £105,000 during their TC
Akin Gump trainees will now earn £100,000 across their two-year training contract
Increases of 12% in first year and 8% in second year
Travers Smith boosts pay for trainees and NQs
It has been a very good week for firms’ salary increases
Jones Day joins ‘100 Club’ with 18% pay boost for junior lawyers
Exclusive: The only way is up for trainee pay too
NQ pay rises at Linklaters, with top performers set to earn over £90,000
£1,000 basic salary increase
Slaughter and May freezes lawyer pay as UK hit by hung parliament uncertainty
But salaries will remain under review, says elite magic circle outfit
Work less, earn less: Linklaters offers lawyers who want a life outside the office an ‘alternative career model’
The scheme is being piloted next month
‘There is no incentive for junior lawyers to qualify into criminal law’, says Junior Lawyers Division
And there will be even less incentive after MoJ pay reforms
Now even City lawyers can’t afford to get onto the London property ladder
A training contract is not always enough to get you a mortgage
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’
Research: London-based NQ pay packets rocket by 23% to £65,000 average in just three years
Twenty-six thousand pounds more than their North West counterparts
Legal Cheek talks… are trainees paid enough?
The haves and the have nots
MoJ’s criminal bar pay proposals under fire over fears baby barristers will lose out
Legal aid changes described as ‘a nasty whack for junior hacks’
Berwin Leighton Paisner lifts post-Brexit referendum pay freeze
But it won’t backdate lawyer pay packets
K&L Gates bumps London-based junior lawyer salaries to £71,000
Trainees at the US headquartered outfit also handed fresh pay rises
Bond Dickinson cites Brexit as it ‘defers’ solicitor pay increases
Having frozen pay last month Trowers & Hamlins confirms salary reviews will now go ahead “this year”
Junior lawyer pay upped at Ashurst, Norton Rose Fulbright, Ince & Co and Withers
Modest pay increases between 3% and 8%
City law firm’s internal Brexit fears memo leaked into blogosphere
Trowers & Hamlins prepares for “bumps in the road ahead”
Freshfields hangs on to 95% of its autumn qualifiers
King & Wood Mallesons retains just 57% of its legal talent
Shearman & Sterling boosts junior lawyer pay packets by 8% to £95,000
Pay rises across the board for lucky associates
Ashurst latest firm to boost trainee and junior lawyer pay
Gap emerging as “silver circle” firm’s pay rises fall short of top 10 rivals
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A-level results day: Student spotted swigging booze from hip flask on live TV is off to study law at Liverpool Uni 
Solicitor who made anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist Facebook comments handed 12-month suspension 
Freshfields sends Manchester paralegals on mini-secondments to London, Dubai and Germany 
Linklaters keeps 47 of its 56 trainees upon qualification 
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