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Law among highest-paying grad jobs, research finds

Beaten only by investment banking 🤑

Feb 24 2021 8:52am
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Latham & Watkins bumps trainee pay to £50-55k and increases maintenance grant

Future rookies to receive £10.5k in financial support

Feb 18 2021 9:12am
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Goodwin Procter raises NQ solicitor pay to £137,500

Trainee salaries to be reviewed in the summer

Feb 16 2021 9:20am
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Slaughter and May ups NQ solicitor salaries to £90.5k — but rises fall short of pre-pandemic pay levels

Trainees also handed increases

Feb 12 2021 1:39pm
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Osborne Clarke ends COVID salary cuts early

Will repay staff deducted earnings this month

Feb 9 2021 9:09am
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Macfarlanes restores NQ lawyer salaries to £85,000 following COVID cut

Pay trimmed by £5k last summer

Feb 8 2021 10:25am
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Baker McKenzie tells lawyers to keep Wednesdays meeting-free to ‘combat Zoom fatigue’

And 1-2pm on other work days

Dec 11 2020 10:48am
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Revealed: The EU countries where lawyers earn the most

UK lawyers earn £64k on average — the third highest salary beaten only by Switzerland and Germany

Dec 1 2020 9:21am
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Liverpool John Moores law grad goes mega-viral with McDonald’s job application tweet

Knock-back leads to legal role lead

Nov 25 2020 1:42pm
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Simmons & Simmons ups London NQ solicitor pay to £84,000

Boosts in Bristol too

Nov 16 2020 9:35am
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New era of home-working could spell the end for sky-high City lawyer salaries, Big Four legal boss warns

PwC partner Ed Stacey reckons it’s getting harder to justify regional pay differences

Oct 9 2020 12:01pm
Latham & Watkins posts 96% trainee retention score and keeps NQ pay at £145k

23 out of 24

Aug 19 2020 10:20am

This is how much you stand to earn as a law grad, uni by uni

Official stats show how much law grads are earning five years on

Aug 3 2020 9:19am
Top City firms freeze junior lawyer pay in response to virus pandemic

HSF, Freshfields and A&O among outfits to introduce belt-tightening measures

Apr 8 2020 9:23am
Two-thirds of legal professionals struggle to make ends meet

But over half too scared to ask for pay rise

Mar 9 2020 10:54am
Ropes & Gray bumps London NQ pay to £130,000 as it confirms spring retention score

Keeps two out of three NQs

Feb 14 2020 10:17am
Nearly a third of trainee solicitors paid below Law Society recommended minimum

Rookies in regions hit hardest

Feb 10 2020 11:07am
Reed Smith ups NQ lawyer pay — and billable hour targets

Rookie pay hits £90,000, as billing targets increase from 1,650 to 1,700 hours

Jan 24 2020 10:59am

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
Covington & Burling ups London NQ solicitor pay to £120,000

Extra £20,000

Oct 29 2019 9:05am
Big Four giant PwC boosts NQ solicitor salaries to £72,000

Trainees receive fresh rises too

Oct 15 2019 2:40pm