White & Case LLP, Gowling WLG (UK) LLP and Taylor Wessing have each revealed increases in salary for their newly qualified (NQ) lawyers, as pay rises for NQs continue to be announced across the profession. 

Recent law graduates earn less on average than their non-law graduate peers, new research from the Higher Education Statistics Agency has shown.

Legal Week has reported on a trend that sees fewer law graduates going on to complete the LPC, BPTC and ILEX courses.

The partnerships of Charles Russell and Speechly Bircham have voted to merge their two firms.

The pupil barristers’ minimum salary will increase from September 2019, with some pupils set for a 50% pay rise when the regulation comes into effect.

BPP Law School has won recognition at the LawWorks Pro Bono Awards for its Leeds-based commercial clinic, run in partnership with Eversheds.

Magic circle law firms Allen & Overy, Freshfields and Linklaters have announced their partner promotions for 2021, with some positive signs that the firms are working to rebalance their male-dominated partnerships.

Professional life requires continued adherence to codes of conduct both within and beyond the workplace.

Slaughter and May is the first firm in 2016 to reveal its qualifying trainee retention rates – the magic circle firm has announced that it is retaining 95% of its newly qualified solicitors.

On 9 December, a unique legal careers event for disabled students is being run. It aims to connect recruiters from top firms with talented, disabled students.

A significant number of applicants for legal roles feel misled by the job adverts that led them to apply, research shows.

The SRA has announced that firms can now report their workforce diversity data through a new online facility.

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CMS Cameron McKenna is running an essay competition for final year school students who are keen on law and would be in the first generation of their family to attend university.

Baroness Hale is to become the first female president of the Supreme Court, taking over from Lord Neuberger in October this year. She will earn £225,000 a year as head of the court.

Lord Neuberger, president of the UK Supreme Court, has said in an interview with the BBC that legal aid cuts could make people feel they cannot access justice and then "take the law into their own hands".

The Institute of Legal Executives and Manchester Metropolitan University have joined forces to offer a new qualifying LLB in legal practice which leaves students with a variety of career options upon graduation.

Fourteen social welfare training contracts made available by The Legal Education Foundation (TLEF) are now open for applications.

The Bar Council, which represents all practising barristers in England and Wales, announced new measures to help domestic abuse victims in family and civil courts. 

Mills & Reeve has been named as one of 100 Best Mid-Sized Companies to Work For in The Sunday Times’ annual analysis of workplace engagement and satisfaction in the United Kingdom.