Work Life Quiz
Cuts and Redundancies
Eversheds cuts 116 roles following consultation
Eversheds has cut 116 roles at the end of its latest redundancy consultation, which saw 166 lawyers and non-lawyers put on notice in January.
Clydes makes eight redundant following consultation
Clyde & Co has made eight support staff redundant following a consultation in the wake of 2011 merger with legacy Barlow Lyde & Gilbert (BLG).
Bevan Brittan becomes latest firm to announce redundancies
Bevan Brittan has launched a redundancy consultation process with three lawyers and six support staff, the firm announced yesterday.
Seven jobs go at Trowers & Hamlins
Trowers & Hamlins has announced that it has made seven redundancies since March.
When the numbers don’t add up anymore
Redundancies are sweeping the legal industry as firms of all sizes adjust to a world of permanent price pressure - and partners are no longer secure in ivory towers
Education and Training
Top firms increasingly target vac schemers
More leading firms want to recruit trainees solely from vacation schemes, it has emerged.
Tribunal rules against Travers in pregnancy discrimination case
Travers Smith has lost a discrimination case brought against it by a former trainee who claimed she was not given a permanent job because of her pregnancy.
A&O keeps associate salaries static after breaking trainee pay freeze
Allen & Overy has held associate pay levels at 2012/13 rates after unveiling its first increase in trainee salaries for the first time since 2010.
Mini pupillage becomes work experience in private school auction row
The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has requested that Westminster School change the name of its mini-pupillage auction to work experience amid controversy over the sale of a work placement.
Top private school summoned by BSB over pupillage auction
The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has approached the head of Westminster School after it auctioned off a mini-pupillage in a bid to raise money for a new building.
Job Watch
Job Watch: Employment
Employment law is one area where there is generally a steady demand for talent, particularly those who have high level experience acting for employers. Recently this has been even more the case due to the increasing number of disputes that have arisen due to the economic climate.
Job watch: Family law
As practice areas go, they don’t get much more emotionally demanding than family law. Unfortunately, it generally does not pay as well as corporate or banking.
Job watch: energy/infrastructure
The recent move by US firm Bracewell & Giuliani to ramp up recruitment in its London office suggests that the shale gas sector is a particularly hot one in the
Job watch: private equity
Few things characterised the Noughties boom as much as the highly leveraged buyout. The driving force behind many of these multibillion-pound deals was private equity, a sector that consequently became among the most fashionable in the legal market.
Job Watch: FMCG and retail
As the latest flurry of high street outfits plunging into administration shows, the consumer goods sector has been rocked by the financial crisis. How has this affected demand for legal expertise in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) and retail sectors?
Job Watch: Banking and finance
The banking and finance sector has played witness to the highs and the lows of the UK economy in recent years, but what is the market like for lawyers working in this sector in 2013?
On the Move
European moves: 16 May 2013
All the latest partner hires and other appointments within Continental European firms and offices.
European moves: 2 May 2013
All the latest partner hires and other appointments within Continental European firms and offices.
Hot 100 2013
Hot 100: Shonagh MacVicar, Glasgow 2014 video
For Shonagh MacVicar (scroll down for video), head of legal for Commonwealth Games organiser Glasgow 2014, 2012 was a watershed year.
Hot 100: Jocelyn Cockburn, Hodge Jones & Allen video
If you pick out just one of our Hot 100 to watch this year, make it Hodge Jones & Allen partner Jocelyn Cockburn (scroll down for video interview).
