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BLP retains 71% of its trainees while Clifford Chance keeps 96%
Contrasting retention fortunes between mid-tier and aristocrats Two big City law firms have announced their retention rates today — and there are contrasting fortunes. Clifford Chance will keep 45 out...
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CMS finally brings newly-qualified lawyer pay back to 2008 levels with £3k rise
In the wake of major London salary boosts, CMS returns to pre-crash level by cautiously increasing junior lawyer remuneration London-based global franchise law firm CMS Cameron McKenna today announced...
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Solicitors Regulation Authority says sorry to Lord Harley for ‘causing distress’
“Harry Potter” lawyer receives written apology over lost file fiasco, but independent complaints body clears regulator of discrimination Officials at the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) have...
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Law Society drops Lord Harley redaction clanger
Technology confounds solicitor profession chiefs as confidential elements of Blacker case are easily accessed The murky world of technology is littered with nasty bear traps — and the Law Society has...
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Professional bodies over-taxing solicitors to tune of £2.4 million, says top...
Practising fee remains steady despite tumbling Solicitor Regulation Authority costs, as Law Society wants a bigger slice of pie Solicitors are being over-taxed this year by £2.4 million, according to...
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Irwin Mitchell bucks trend by boosting trainee intake
Alternative business structure law firm ramps up recruitment by 37.5% while City players cut numbers Magic circle and other City-based global law firms may have slashed trainee recruitment by as much...
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White & Case defects from University of Law to BPP
New Yorkers’ London office cuts GDL and LPC deal with ULaw’s arch-rival White & Case’s London office is to switch its training contract deal from the University of Law to BPP in a move that will do...
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City law pay bonanza — three firms boost junior wedge by as much as 9%
Exclusive: Chunky NQ pay rises at Travers Smith, Mayer Brown and Dentons A triumvirate of City law firms has boosted junior solicitor pay with deflation-busting rises that scrape the 9% mark — evidence...
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From the magic circle dream to ‘a grim reality of being over-worked,...
The biggest challenge is admitting to others that you are unhappy, says Oxford-educated law exile Martin Underwood It would be too simplistic to say corporate law firms are full of unhappy and...
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End of world nigh as City mega legal deals dry up, forecasts top conveyancing...
Kent-based high street lawyer who doubles as Law Society President paints gloomy picture of future Big corporate deals are stalling, sparking fears that the City legal profession, the UK and wider...
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Crime legal aid firms are forced to offer cheap ‘McJustice’ to clients, says...
Head of London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association also has a pop at legal education establishment Crime law solicitors’ firms have been forced into a “McJustice approach” of providing a...
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Are US law firms raiding City rivals to poach top qualifying talent?
No, it’s all myth, say recruitment experts — the Yanks are now training enough junior solicitors of their own As announcements of autumn retention rates of newly qualified lawyers cascade from City law...
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Your Presentation Feedback Translator
With the courts closed and the legal profession in holiday mode, what better opportunity to do lots of pointless presentations? You’ve done the presentation, you’ve had the feedback — but what does it...
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Dechert, Eversheds and Addleshaw latest firms to hike junior lawyer pay
Miriam Gonzalez’s firm leads way, upping NQ salary to £74,000 Dechert is the latest firm to throw a deflation-busting pay rise to its London junior lawyers as the Philadelphia-based practice bumped up...
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Mixed autumn retention results announced by three City firms
Qualifying trainees at square mile trio Travers Smith, Simmons & Simmons and Fieldfisher experience contrasting fortunes Silver circle outfit Travers Smith has revealed a strong retention figure of...
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Contextual recruitment hits magic circle: firms to consider students’...
Training contract hunters’ achievements to be “contextualised” The five magic circle firms — Linklaters, Slaughter and May, Clifford Chance, Allen & Overy and Freshfields — have jumped on board the...
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CMS slashes trainee headcount by nearly 35%
International franchised firm CMS Cameron McKenna has sythed 26 trainee positions since merging with Dundas & Wilson International law firm CMS Cameron McKenna has slashed its trainee numbers by...
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Northern powerhouse law firm stands by London’s ‘ugliest’ building
“Walkie Talkie” is now officially the City’s biggest eyesore, but DWF lawyers still love it Trying to find a Londoner with something good to say about the lump of lard, steel and glass monstrosity at...
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Donate a billable hour to help refugees: QC’s campaign raises £50k and counting
And the cash keeps flowing in The legal profession has donated over £50,000 in less than 24 hours hours to a billable hour appeal for refugees launched yesterday evening by employment silk Sean Jones...
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Qualify as a solicitor in six years without going to uni – radical scheme...
Reformed apprenticeship route could profoundly shake up traditional legal education models — and be trouble for legal executives School-leavers could qualify as solicitors in as little as five years...
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