Hogan Lovells bumps junior lawyer pay packets by 5% to £75,000
Trainees will take home an extra £1,000
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The reality of taking the CILEx route: ‘I work just as hard as a solicitor for less money and less respect’
An anonymous trainee legal exec thinks attitudes to the apprenticeship need to change
Seven law firm partners named on 2017 ‘ethnic minority role model’ power list
Lawyers at Freshfields, Linklaters, Slaughter and May, Clifford Chance and BLP all make the cut
Revealed: 60% of lawyers think visible tattoos are not acceptable in their firms and chambers
Could we see a discrimination case in the near future?
Nottingham Trent’s student-staffed ‘teaching law firm’ launches commercial advice arm
Legal centre was handed an ABS licence by the SRA in 2015
Cambridge college names first female head in its 700-year history, and she’s an international and company law lecturer
She did her training contract at Clifford Chance
Social media fumes as female QC caught having rush hour romp with male solicitor has criminal record wiped, but his caution stands
The SRA has confirmed it will not bring disciplinary action against him
London Legal Walk: Lawyers descend on sun-soaked capital for annual 10km charity event
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‘Don’t make snap decisions too soon’, SRA tells aspiring solicitors contemplating whether to take the LPC or the super-exam
Exclusive video interview: Legal Cheek speaks to the regulator’s director of education and training
Why junior lawyers shouldn’t be afraid of AI, by a law student
We shouldn’t waste the abundance of opportunities out there
The Trial: Lawyers react to new docudrama starring real QCs and an ex-Old Bailey judge
‘First major inaccuracy, it started on time’
A Latham & Watkins lawyer is standing for UKIP in the general election
Tim Page is counsel at the US giant’s London office
Baker McKenzie lawyer reunited with have-a-go hero law student who helped him during train station attack
John Rowley urges the final year to follow in his footsteps and become a prosecutor
Distance learning: desirable or a disadvantage?
I live in Hong Kong, but my law school is in London
Is the bar’s appeal to the best graduates destroying the magic circle?
In America the top legal talent joins law firms — but not always in Britain
This solicitor has one of the best LinkedIn profiles we’ve ever seen
Sham Uddin even hosts his own comedy show
Baker McKenzie partner attacked at train station, law student jumps in to help
Now John Rowley wants to find the have-a-go hero so he can say thank you
Six legal tech start-ups selected for Mishcon de Reya’s innovation incubator
They will spend ten weeks at the City outfit’s new ‘MDR LAB’
Exclusive: Freshfields trainees bemoan lack of PA support as firm braces for low retention rate
Claims of longer hours and greater uncertainty hit magic circle giant
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I’m a UK law grad working as a paralegal in the Caribbean before starting my training contract in London later this year
Sun, sea, scuba diving and … stimulating legal work
Junior lawyer who led march against £9k tuition fees when he was at Cambridge says it’s time to forgive the Lib Dems
Former SU president will be voting in line with majority of rookie lawyers surveyed in Legal Cheek General Election poll
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Birmingham University vlogger beats 1,000 students to win trip to HSF’s Hong Kong and Australia offices
Watch Laura Kendrick’s video — and those of the five other extremely impressive finalists — below
White & Case boosts London NQ pay packets by 17% to £105,000
Trainees will trouser an extra £2,000
Why I don’t want to become a partner
Yes I’m a City lawyer, but the gruelling hours just aren’t for me
More people want to date lawyers than any other profession
Two have been named most-wanted singles in London
Hogan Lovells trials new ‘continuous feedback’ system to assess lawyer performance
Global giant presses pause on lengthy annual reviews
Law lecturers accuse SRA of ‘disingenuous reporting’ over super-exam consultation responses
But regulator says it’s published everything it can
New court drama hoping to show viewers the ‘inner workings of the justice system’ will star real QCs and an ex-Old Bailey judge
The Trial: A Murder in the Family will air on Channel 4 later this month
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Event: The Legal Cheek and Shearman & Sterling General Election debate
Sixty free places up for grabs as Commercial Awareness Question Time summer season commences
CMS implements new ‘dress code guidance’ to help its suit-favouring lawyers blend in with more casual Olswang colleagues
The two firms merged with Nabarro last week
Kirkland & Ellis’ graduate recruitment website inadvertently promotes viagra
Well its award winning office does look a bit like a penis
The SQE is a revolution which American law schools should learn from, says US legal education expert
‘You need different roads to Rome’
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Hogan Lovells bumps junior lawyer pay packets by 5% to £75,000 
Mark Zuckerberg gets honorary law degree from Harvard, the university he dropped out of to start Facebook
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