Tag: Solicitors

Hogan Lovells and Macfarlanes confirm new flexible working polices
Both offer 40% remote option

A&O becomes first magic circle firm to embrace solicitor apprenticeships in London
Six apprentices to start in September 2022

Pinsents ups NQ lawyer pay across London and regions
£75k in City and £45k elsewhere

Top quality work with great work/life balance: Lawyers make the case for the North West
A panel of experts explain why the region’s thriving legal scene should be on students’ radar

A&O ups junior lawyer pay to £100k — includes £10k sign on bonus
Follows similar move by Clifford Chance

Kingsley Napley ditches ‘BAME’ title
London law firm says descriptor can 'disguise discrimination'

A junior lawyer’s guide to building resilience
Experts from Freshfields, Pinsent Masons, Hill Dickinson and ULaw talk career setbacks and how they overcame them

BBC takes ‘fresh look’ at the legal profession with new podcast for aspiring lawyers
‘Not All Lawyers Have Law Degrees’ champions atypical routes into law

Lord Chancellor raises alarm over ‘rule of law’ being ‘open to hijack from politically-motivated interests’
Announces even more constitutional changes

Ashurst boosts NQ lawyer pay to £90,000
5% uplift

MoneyLaw latest: Simpson Thacher boosts junior lawyer pay to $205,000 in London
US outfits continue to splash the cash

Akin Gump ups London NQ salaries to $202,500
US MoneyLaw mania continues to rock the City

London law firms Wedlake Bell and Moon Beever to merge
Goes live next month

Bakers lawyers and staff given option to work remotely up to three days a week
Varied start and finish times too

Weil dishes out £8k Covid bonuses to NQ lawyers
Extra cash for trainees and associates too

Largest law firm in the world trims lawyer numbers
Dentons lays off 85 UK employees, including 16 associates

Sponsorship, scholarship or save: How to fund the SQE
Leading legal education experts demystify the new training regime

Clyde & Co elects first female senior partner
Carolena Gordon takes up new role on 1 July

Freshfields dishes out bonuses following Covid salary freeze
Catch-up cash for UK lawyers and staff

Starting out in law: 5 pieces of advice I’d give to my younger self
The College of Legal Practice programme committee member Bhavisha Mistry on how aspiring lawyers can overcome the hurdles she faced when in their shoes