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The UK is being slow to shift from the traditional nine to five, but thanks to Katie Power, Crabtree & Evelyn is using flexible working to its advantage
The Lawyer has compiled trainee solicitor salaries and newly-qualified (NQ) solicitor salaries from the UK’s largest law firms. Last update: 25 April 2022 The latest salary figures are a reflection of the influence of American firms on the UK market. When Bingham McCutchen became the first firm to offer NQs £100,000 in London back in […]
Mills & Reeve has come up with a new programme aimed at allowing graduates to take on innovation projects for the firm and its clients. The initiative, dubbed the ‘project and innovation trainee programme’, is the latest in a line of changes first begun in 2015 by managing partner Claire Clarke to increase profitability and […]
Royal London general counsel Fergus Speight tasked his team with hanging the legal function operating model. Solicitor Peter McCusker led the way, and collaborated with procurement to reboot relationships with external firms
The UK is being slow to shift from the traditional nine to five, but thanks to Katie Power, Crabtree & Evelyn is using flexible working to its advantage
The Lawyer has compiled trainee solicitor salaries and newly-qualified (NQ) solicitor salaries from the UK’s largest law firms. Last update: 25 April 2022 The latest salary figures are a reflection of the influence of American firms on the UK market. When Bingham McCutchen became the first firm to offer NQs £100,000 in London back in […]
Mills & Reeve has come up with a new programme aimed at allowing graduates to take on innovation projects for the firm and its clients. The initiative, dubbed the ‘project and innovation trainee programme’, is the latest in a line of changes first begun in 2015 by managing partner Claire Clarke to increase profitability and […]
Royal London general counsel Fergus Speight tasked his team with hanging the legal function operating model. Solicitor Peter McCusker led the way, and collaborated with procurement to reboot relationships with external firms
A Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer litigator has exited Fleet Street following the outcome of an internal investigation, just two months after another one of the firm’s former partners was fined by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal over misconduct allegations. Nick Williams has left the firm’s London office; he was promoted in the firm’s disputes group in 2017, […]
Lawyers are enjoying their partner status for at least a decade before setting their sights on the next step up
As the world opens back up, it’s more important than ever to show what your firm has to offer
How can Mishcon fund its ambitious growth plans now its IPO has been put on ice?
At partner level, men are three times as likely to move firms than women
Criminal barristers deserve the full support of the profession
With internal teams shrinking, legal budgets are rising at a faster rate than in a decade
Scottish firm Brodies has increased its revenue by just shy of 20 per cent, reaching a new high of £98.5m. As such it is the largest of the independent Scottish firms remaining, with the likes of Burness Paull and Shepherd & Wedderburn yet to report. Many others such as Simpson & Marwick, Maclay Murray & […]
Herbert Smith Freehills is increasing the base rate of its newly-qualified lawyer salaries, having last upped pay for its junior lawyers in December. The firm will be increasing its London NQ base salary to £120,000, plus bonus, effective from today. The firm had increased these salaries back in December to £105,000. Alison Brown, executive partner, […]
Pinsent Masons is launching an office in Luxembourg after the acquisition of one of the country’s local firms. From today Pinsents is taking over Wildgen’s office, adding seven partners to the firm and 16 lawyers in the office. The office will be headed by partner, Michel Bulach. This brings the total number of Pinsents’ Continental […]
Today marks the official launch date of Clyde & Co’s merger with insurance firm and competitor BLM, a move that will transform the legal insurance market. It comes just over three months since partners from both firms voted the mega-deal through in March, after two years of covert discussions. Here are three graphs breaking down […]
Freeths is to supervise the design and implementation of a UK Government compensation scheme aimed at the original Post Office scandal victims. The national firm has been appointed by the Government to act on behalf of over 500 sub-postmasters who brought the landmark civil group action against the Post Office. Until earlier this year, this […]
Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF) has been hit for two energy partners in the City. Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has hired energy duo Daniel Giemajner and Matt Hardwick to its City office. Giemajner, who was promoted to partner in 2020, has a particular specialism in advising on the development and acquisition of mining assets, […]
