Tag: Solicitors

Reed Smith and Ashurst push NQ solicitor pay to £125K
City salary rises continue

‘Unsupervised’ trainee awarded £36k after enduring training contract from hell
Handed two lawyers' caseloads on second day

Eversheds HQ hosts West Ham football stars
'Cockney Kit' launch

My journey to qualification without a training contract
Chloe Hayes, a trainee solicitor in BPP’s Social Impact Team, discusses her pioneering QWE route to becoming a solicitor

Burges Salmon retains all 24 qualifying trainees
Perfect 100% score

BCLP posts 58% trainee retention rate
Better but still not great

EXCLUSIVE: DLA Piper raises London newly qualified lawyer pay to £110k
Regional salaries receive boost to £75k

Legal profession at loggerheads over CILEX regulation
SRA v Law Society

HSF raises NQ associate salaries to £135k
Boosts for trainees too

EXCLUSIVE: Paul Weiss launches London training contract
New juniors to earn market topping £180k

HFW and Bird & Bird become latest firms to up NQ lawyer pay
£100k and £98k

‘It is significantly harder to become a barrister than a solicitor’, claims barrister
Sparks LinkedIn debate

Macfarlanes enters City pay war, boosts NQ lawyer salaries over 20% to £140k
Also confirms 84% retention score

Students rate best (and worst) law firms for ‘climate accountability’
Group says lawyers should have option to reject work contributing to climate crisis

How the SQE is opening up new routes to qualification in publicly funded practice areas
There are few practice areas more interesting than crime, says David Green, Academic Manager and criminal law lecturer at ULaw Birmingham

‘My dream vac scheme wasn’t what I expected’
Cold partners = red flag? asks TC hopeful

Watch now: everything you need to know about SQE courses
BPP’s Head of Outreach joins future trainees to discuss the key considerations when selecting a prep course

Suspension for senior partner who had sex on office desk
Made inappropriate comments to female colleagues