An emergency hardship fund will be provided by the Inns of Court to support pupils and junior barristers throughout the coronavirus pandemic, as well as an emergency fund for barristers in urgent financial need, which will be available soon.

Judges, QCs, junior barristers and solicitor advocates have come out in support of an anti-bullying campaign initiated by five barristers.

Magic circle firm Clifford Chance is cutting its training contract numbers by 20.

Watson Farley & Williams has asked its September 2013 trainee intake to consider deferring their training contracts for a year, sweetening the deal with an offer of £5,000 for those who decide to do so.

The proposed merger between Dundas & Wilson and CMS Cameron McKenna has caused upheaval at the Scottish firm, with a number of key partners leaving in advance of the change.

Legal Week reports that both Linklaters and Allen & Overy have announced a freeze on associate pay bands for the 2011-12 financial year.

Addleshaw Goddard has hired 10 new legal apprentices this month.

Nabarro has released its spring retention results and announced that all eight trainees will continue at the firm as newly-qualified solicitors.

The number of applications for Queen's Counsel status submitted by female barristers has dropped by a third this year.

While Gray’s Inn is the smallest of the four Inns, it still offers more than £1.5 million in scholarships, awards and prizes each year.

Freshfields and Slaughter and May have published their pay gap reports for the year, joining fellow magic circle firm Clifford Chance, which released its pay gap information last week.

Mishcon de Reya has confirmed that it will offer training contracts only to those attending its vacation scheme.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority is to visit at least 55 firms that it has identified as being at high risk of financial instability.

The newly appointed lord chief justice, Sir Ian Burnett, released a short YouTube video on the day of his swearing-in, 2 October.

Foot Anstey has confirmed that it will launch an in-house school leaver academy from September 2014.

City firm Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP has retained an impressive 100% of its trainees this year. All 13 will qualify at the firm in September.

Penningtons Solicitors and Manches LLP have announced their merger, effective as of 14 October 2013.

Skills for Justice has revealed that Cardiff-based Kaplan Altior will work in partnership with apprenticeship specialists Acorn to provide the first legal Higher Apprenticeship in Wales.

Midlands firms Shakespeares and SGH Martineau have merged, with the newly branded firm now called Shakespeare Martineau.

Travers Smith is encouraging staff to use ‘safe-words’ to call out inappropriate language in the office.