For aspiring lawyers and established professionals alike, LinkedIn has become far more than an online CV. It's now one of the most powerful tools for building a legal career, offering opportunities to connect, learn and position yourself within a highly competitive field.

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For insurance purposes, were the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center one occurrence or two?

Are client secondments for trainee solicitors and junior lawyers becoming more popular?

The Law Training Centre (LTC) announced the launch of its new CILEX professional qualification (CPQ) courses after officially receiving approved training centre status from CILEX (Chartered Institute of Legal Executives) in September 2021.

The LawCareersNetLIVE conference provided the perfect opportunity to combine networking with practical insights into different areas of law, which is essential for my career development.

Kingsley Napley LLP has reported revenues of £77.3 million for the year ended 31 March 2026, an 8% increase on the previous year, alongside an 8% rise in net profit to £23.3 million. 

Multinational law firm DWF will adopt the Solicitors Qualifying Exam from January 2022 and launch the firm’s new graduate entry-level apprenticeship programme in partnership with BPP University Law School.

The University of Law (ULaw) and leading law firm White & Case LLP have agreed an exclusive partnership, in which ULaw will deliver training and development to the firm’s future trainees to prepare them for the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE) and legal practice. 

City law firm Addleshaw Goddard has announced that its salaries for newly qualified (NQ) lawyers will remain at £100,000, as it opts to allocate an extra £1 million to bonuses at the company instead. The firm’s bonus pot is now worth a total of £19 million.

The City of London Corporation’s plans for a new development called the ‘Justice Quarter’, which will include an innovative 18-courtroom facility, new headquarters for the City of London Police and new east-west links through the site, as well as creating 400 new jobs, received the go ahead in April.

Cooley LLP, a leading technology and life sciences US law firm, has announced the launch of its UK practice.

The University of Hertfordshire has suspended its Legal Practice Course (LPC) in response to the proposed changes to legal education and training currently being considered by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), but other leading universities have said that they intend to stick with the LPC despite ongoing uncertainty.  

International law firm Addleshaw Goddard has increased its annual staff bonus pot by £3 million, from £19 million to £22 million. The move follows a reported 17% rise in both revenue and profit for the financial year ending 30 April.

Reed Smith recently ran a competition asking students from four universities to submit a video on what they thought the law firm of the future would look like.

Women lawyers are generally earning more than their male peers at the junior stages of their careers, but face earning less than male lawyers as their careers progress, new research from Eversheds has found.