Training contract numbers soar to highest level since financial crash
Places up two years on the bounce for the first time since the financial crash
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Research: Female solicitors are earning 20% less than their male colleagues
Latest Law Society stats suggest gender pay gap is still a problem within the profession
Lord Harley’s claim for ‘interim relief’ against Law Society struck out by High Court
“Harry Potter” lawyer was seeking to restrain the release of six closed files under a freedom of information request
The Law Society has just wasted £7 million on a failed business venture — here is what they could have spent it on
Independent review reveals a catalogue of errors led to conveyance software flop
The legal sector boom: Lawyers responsible for 8,000 additional jobs
But what are they, exactly?
Video: ‘Oh bollocks!’ MP’s outburst over suggestion that Brexit will cost the legal services market £1.7 billion
Former justice minister Jonathan Djanogly’s suggestion didn’t go down well with one MP
Law Society says students should be paid at least national minimum wage for legal work experience
New best practice guidance states unpaid placements should last no longer than four weeks
Solicitor super-exam could ‘devalue’ and ‘dumb down’ the law
Legal establishment comes out against plan to scrap LPC and open firms to non-graduates
Revealed: the areas of the country where trainee solicitors are paid the least
South West is best — avoid the rest, apart from the City
Big Four accountancy giants are expanding their legal services arms globally — and solicitors are getting worried
EY now has lawyers in over 29 countries; while Deloitte Legal is cracking China
Law Society chief says solicitor super-exam could benefit ‘wealthier’ students
Claim made that central assessment could “promote nepotism”
Law Society bigwigs sample culinary delights in MasterChef challenge
Solicitor reps’ grand Chancery Lane HQ was the setting for latest round of hit BBC cookery show
The legal profession has just set a trainee solicitor minimum wage that is higher than the one it scrapped — but it’s unenforceable
New recommended minimum wage for trainee solicitors is £20,276 in London and £18,183 elsewhere
City solicitor keeps it brief in rhyming bid to woo voters for top young lawyer post
If only general election manifestoes were this simple
Law Society President: Women Lawyers Who Work Flexibly At City Firms Are ‘Put Onto The Slow Stream’
Law Society president Lucy Scott-Moncrieff raised eyebrows in the City… Read more »
Black History Month At The Law Society, Featuring Convicted Expenses Cheat Baron Taylor of Warwick
As the Law Society’s Black History Month celebrations got underway… Read more »
EXCLUSIVE: Desperate LPC Student Places ‘Come And Get Me’ Advert in Law Society Magazine
Training contract numbers may be on the increase again, but… Read more »
PODCAST: Scrap Trainee Minimum Salary And ‘Only The Rich’ Will Become Solicitors, Says Junior Lawyers Division Chief
The minimum trainee salary debate is developing into quite a… Read more »
Want a Trainee? Law Society To Help London Trainees At Stricken Dewey & LeBoeuf Find New Firms
The Law Society is set to step in to assist… Read more »
If You Put Trainee Solicitors On Housing Benefits, You Cut The Price Of Law School, Right?
Following the announcement by the Law Society that trainee solicitors… Read more »
Trainee Solicitors Could Earn Just £5,408 a Year If Minimum Wage Scrapped
Trainee solicitors could be re-classified as apprentices – and see… Read more »
‘Solicitor Advocates Are Destroying The Junior Bar’
If advocacy is your calling, don’t try to force the… Read more »
OCCUPY THE LAW SOCIETY! (in a nice way)
Follow @pondcat Other than a short-lived campaign to occupy the… Read more »
PRO BONO WEEK: OUT WITH A WHIMPER
Follow @AlasdairIS But despite the complaints from lawyers and disinterest… Read more »
ETHNIC MINORITIES DON’T ‘FIT THE IMAGE’
Follow @khan_sophie It’s harder to get on in law if… Read more »
LAWYERS WITHOUT RIGHTS
Follow @AlexAldridgeUK Stories of Jewish lawyers in Nazi Germany are… Read more »
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ULaw among gold-rated universities in government’s first teaching rankings 
Eversheds Sutherland launches new legal service for start-ups thanks to one of its trainees 
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From King’s College London law student to Ashurst partner
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