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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

Jul 12 2017 9:20am

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

Jul 11 2017 4:01pm

Ashurst autumn retention rate: 95% of NQs staying on

Their salaries will leap from £46,000 to £72,000 overnight

Jul 11 2017 10:42am

Norton Rose Fulbright raises NQ pay to £75k

Trainee money is increased too

Jul 11 2017 9:50am

Love happens here: The very best lawyer photos from London Pride

Includes a dog in a barrister’s wig wearing a Hawaiian lei

Jul 10 2017 11:01am

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

Jul 10 2017 10:08am

Shearman & Sterling keeps 13 out of 15 trainees

Their pay will now more than DOUBLE from £50k to £105k

Jul 10 2017 9:17am

Travers Smith boosts pay for trainees and NQs

It has been a very good week for firms’ salary increases

Jul 7 2017 10:38am

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

Jul 6 2017 3:58pm

Macfarlanes sharply raises NQ pay to over £80,000

Exclusive: £10k increase for firm’s newly qualified lawyers

Jul 6 2017 3:14pm

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

Jul 6 2017 2:17pm

From student to solicitor: The most important things that you learn during your training contract

‘A person who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new’

Jul 5 2017 2:11pm

Regional rises: CMS ups Bristol trainee pay by 16%

Exclusive: Newly-merged mega firm also throws extra cash at NQs north and south of the border

Jul 4 2017 11:50am

What you need to know before you apply for a training contract

The application deadlines are looming

Jul 4 2017 10:49am

I quit the magic circle to become ‘the new Nigella’, and I have no regrets

Ali Alt waved goodbye to the City to be a full-time foodie

Jul 4 2017 9:27am

Five qualities that make a good corporate lawyer

Ahead of 'How to make it as a City lawyer' on Thursday, Herbert Smith Freehills associate Siddhartha Shukla discusses the key skills he has learnt in his career to date

Jul 3 2017 4:01pm

Wavelength Law wins Online Court hackathon

Civil claims tool wows judges

Jul 3 2017 3:11pm

Five City firms named in LGBT ‘top global employers’ index

Stonewall list celebrates efforts to promote inclusivity at work

Jul 3 2017 2:29pm