A law student shares his last-minute TC application pain
Face down those procrastination demons
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Watson Farley & Williams keeps all 15 autumn NQs
International outfit posts perfect 100% retention score
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8 tangible benefits that technology is bringing to law firms
Ahead of Pinsent Masons’ training contract application deadline on Friday, five lawyers and technologists at the famously tech-savvy firm consider how innovation is helping them
Dentons enters Scotland with Maclay Murray & Spens tie-up
The biggest law firm in the world just got bigger
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Four key moments from ‘How to make it as a City lawyer’
Last minute TC application gold
A magic circle trainee’s ultra-sassy tweets have been exposed for all the legal world to see
‘Bruv I’ve been up 20 hours’
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
White & Case hit with record £250,000 fine over conflict of interest breaches in Ukrainian oligarch case
A partner was also fined a further £50,000
RPC posts solid 82% autumn retention result
NQs will be based in London, Bristol and Hong Kong
An open letter to training contract applicants everywhere
Being commercial can make up for a lot, but only if you understand what lawyers are selling
Freshfields partner who joined the firm in 1984 reveals he’s quitting to pursue pupillage dream
Competition litigation expert Jon Lawrence is Brick Court bound
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What you don’t learn watching Suits
A Macfarlanes NQ, associate and partner discuss what they do on a deal
13 articles you must read if you’re applying for training contracts this summer
They will strengthen your applications
Mid-size money movers: Farrer & Co, Harbottle & Lewis and Collyer Bristow increase junior lawyer pay
Trainees also receive modest salary boosts
‘Mould and mice’: Students launch crowdfunding campaign to take legal action against LSE halls of residence
Pissed-off postgrads instruct top London law firm
Attorney General to throw Hawaiian ‘Summer Beach Party’ at government law offices
Grass skirts at the ready
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How approachable partners can make all the difference during your training contract
Open plan office, team nights out and annual ski trip set the tone, RPC rookie tells Legal Cheek Careers
Trowers keeps 7 out of 10 qualifying trainees as Withers unveils 73% autumn result
Dip in retention form for City duo
How to survive the supervisor from hell
A junior solicitor reflects on the sadism lurking within City law firms
Slaughter and May reveals solid 91% autumn retention score
29 out of 32 rookies commit their future to the elite magic circle firm
A second law firm is set to list on the London Stock Exchange
Gordon Dadds to follow Gateley in going public
The tuition fee backlash could spell danger for the solicitor super-exam
Design of the cheaper LPC replacement is based on undergraduate fees staying high
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Training contract applications, they’re a two-way street
Think as much about what you can offer the firm as what the firm can offer you, advises Norton Rose Fulbright trainee Gillian Jaravaza
Ashurst autumn retention rate: 95% of NQs staying on
Their salaries will leap from £46,000 to £72,000 overnight
Norton Rose Fulbright raises NQ pay to £75k
Trainee money is increased too
Love happens here: The very best lawyer photos from London Pride
Includes a dog in a barrister’s wig wearing a Hawaiian lei
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Where will corporate law firms be ten years from now?
Pinsent Masons partner Richard Masters draws on 30 years of practice to forecast what comes next
Shearman & Sterling keeps 13 out of 15 trainees
Their pay will now more than DOUBLE from £50k to £105k
Leigh Day suspends two paralegals accused of ‘touting’ for business among Grenfell Tower fire victims
Not ideal when you’re angling for a training contract
Travers Smith boosts pay for trainees and NQs
It has been a very good week for firms’ salary increases
The rise of the new media lawyers
Remote-working, low overhead model that allows for work-life balance is shaking up provision of defamation law
Macfarlanes sharply raises NQ pay to over £80,000
Exclusive: £10k increase for firm’s newly qualified lawyers
Asylum seeker turned solicitor who only qualified in 2016 wins immigration lawyer of the year
Baroness Doreen Lawrence handed out gongs at yesterday’s legal aid awards
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A law student shares his last-minute TC application pain
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