Me neither, I’m impressed

Dentons dont announce until August. This is after they announce staff salary increases in July and salaries dont raise with the announcement. You then realise how much you were shafted in August.

I’m not asking you to cite the sort of stats you’d put on an application. Half the firms pay for those awards anyway.

FBD has never been anyone’s go to for competition, though they certainly are go to for plenty of other things.

Whenever things go wrong in competition, it’s Slaughters people turn to.

Don’t think you can claim that SM is above the rest of the MC for competition work – FBD is the clear market leader (e.g. ranked the top firm by Global Competition Review 15 times, Who’s Who Legal’s ‘Global Competition Law Firm of the Year’ 19 consecutive times).

If you were really a SM associate you’d have no problem leaving. Other firms snap them up.

SM has always been the outlier, that wasn’t a problem before. Their revenue is still ridiculous, and their work easily on par (or in certain areas, such as competition above) the rest of the magic circle. They do need to stop underpaying, however.

There’s a reason half of Oxbridge ends up at Slaughters and not Links. If anyone’s going to fall out the MC, it’ll be Links or A&O.

Pinsents already announced a few weeks ago

You think they make £5k more, and not £5k less?

It isn’t, it just doesn’t include S&M anymore. A&O, CC, LL, FBD have clearly similar business models distinct from firms below them, and pay more than the firms below them as well.

100/100 last cohort

You sir get the wishful thinking award.

Yeah and pigs might start flying