Author: thomas-connelly

Partner profits rise at Ashurst and Clydes as more firms release financials
Hill Dickinson and CRS post strong numbers too

Slaughters boosts trainee pay – still ‘carefully considering’ NQ lawyer salary
Magic Circle rivals all increased to £150k

‘Enormous opportunity missed’: Law school chief hits out at ethnicity attainment gap report
City Law School's James Catchpole questions exclusion of SQE students in long-awaited research

Tech’s role in boosting access to justice among key themes for 2024 Pro Bono Week
Annual programme of events runs later this year

Quinn Emanuel hikes NQ lawyer pay to market topping £180k
Serious money for 20-somethings

Freshfields sets down Magic Circle salary marker as it ups NQ lawyer pay 20% to £150k
Is there another pay war on the horizon?

A&O Shearman: A new Magic Circle mega-firm is born
Historic tie-up goes live today

EXCLUSIVE: Students who had TCs cancelled among those hit by Kaplan SQE blunder
Told they’d failed SQE1 when actually they'd passed

‘Omnishambles’: Law school bosses react to SQE exam fiasco
Mix of concern and anger

Exam chaos: Kaplan issues apology after 175 students wrongly told they’d failed SQE
Questions remain over whether blunder led to TC offer cancellations

Gowling ups office attendance to 60%
Previously 50%

Regulator dishes out £13,836 fine to drink-driving solicitor
New approach of linking sanction to salary

New fund aims to cover salaries of social welfare trainees
Support up to 20 rookie solicitors

A&O and HSF post spring trainee retention rates
77% and 97%

Huge disparity in LPC provider pass rates as SQE was introduced
Between 100% and 21%