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Posted on 03 November 2020

Consulting is about problem-solving. Every client is unique, and so are the challenges they face. Watch to find out about the strategic and regulatory advice that our consulting team offers, and discover why creativity, innovation and agility are so important.

Medicinema

Posted on 30 March 2023

Bringing the enjoyment and magic of cinema to those in UK hospitals, Medicinema reaches those who would otherwise be unable to watch films while in treatment centres.

Listed law firms performed strongly in 2019, share prices show

Posted on 06 January 2020

Stock market-listed legal businesses enjoyed a highly successful 2019, analysis by Legal Futures reveals.

Award Winner 2020

Best Recruiter – US Firm in the City: Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

I applied for multiple training contracts at similar firms in London. I felt that the recruitment process at this firm was considerably less bureaucratic than that of other firms, and that the firm was genuinely interested in getting to know me as a person and whether I would be a good fit.

#10000BlackInterns

Posted on 27 March 2023

15 firms open training contract and vacation scheme applications through Apply4Law

Posted on 01 November 2013

A Rugby Union team's worth of firms – that's 15 for those averse to heads jammed in armpits – have opened applications for training contracts, vacation schemes and the odd open day through Apply4Law.

Student Law Society Awards | BEST SOCIETY OVERALL

Posted on 04 August 2025

The annual LawCareers.Net Student Law Society Awards seek to celebrate the hard work of student law societies at universities all over the UK. Edward Bramley Law Society explain how they won 'Best society overall', sponsored by Burges Salmon LLP, at the 2025 Student Law Society Awards.

Ropes & Gray keeps £130K pay package for NQs

Posted on 21 July 2020

Ropes & Gray’s newly-qualified solicitors will continue to earn a minimum of £130,000 this autumn, including the five trainees being retained who are qualifying in September 2020.

Trust offers grant to Cambridgeshire trainees

Posted on 10 June 2013

The Vernon Cade Fund is offering financial assistance to trainee solicitors in Cambridgeshire, in the form of a grant of somewhere between £500 and £2,000.

Freshfields ups 2013 trainee numbers

Posted on 30 June 2011

Those aspiring to the dizzy heights of the magic circle should note that Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has increased the number of London trainees it will take on in 2013 from 90 to 100.

Argent merges with Goldsmith Chambers

Posted on 07 May 2014

Argent Chambers has merged with Goldsmith Chambers as of yesterday (6 May).

Trainee solicitor elected mayor of Cheshire town

Posted on 06 June 2013

A trainee solicitor has taken the well-trodden path from law to politics by becoming the mayor of Frodsham in Cheshire.

Community services combine to run the Big Advice Survey

Posted on 05 January 2015

We are encouraging everyone interested in the future of legal advice in the United Kingdom to take part in the Big Advice Survey, which runs until 31 March 2015.

Simmons still most equality-friendly law firm in Stonewall index

Posted on 25 January 2013

Simmons & Simmons is once again the highest-ranked law firm in this year's workplace equality index, which is annually compiled by the gay rights charity Stonewall.

SRA to give some firms relationship managers

Posted on 28 October 2011

The SRA has announced plans to assign “relationship managers” to some of the United Kingdom’s biggest firms.

Kaplan Altior to provide Welsh legal Higher Apprenticeship

Posted on 04 July 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.

Email constitutes major security risk for law firms

Posted on 31 October 2014

Lawyers believe that email is the biggest security risk to law firms, according to a survey conducted by logistics operator DX.

Fair Trials International

Posted on 27 March 2023

A human rights charity which represents those arrested extra-judicially and works to protect the right to a fair trial.

Bar raises concerns over fee-earning McKenzie friends, with judicial consultation imminent

Posted on 01 June 2015

Concern among lawyers regarding the rise of fee-earning McKenzie friends, notably among members of the Bar, has heightened following the dramatic ban of a McKenzie friend from the courtroom.

Opportunities at law firms

An increasing number of law firms are running events that target first-year law students, with a view to attracting them to their firm at the earliest possible stage. For full details on which firms are running first-year law specific open days and vacation schemes, see the table below: