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Herbert Smith Freehills LLP has confirmed that it will allow trainee solicitors from its London and Hong Kong offices to do an overseas secondment in Australia.
Commercial awareness – it’s important. Read these stories to improve the level of yours.
Several firms have been shortlisted for honours at the National Council for Work Experience Awards 2013, now in their 10th year.
The newly qualified (NQ) solicitor ‘pay war’ continues as Linklaters LLP and Allen & Overy LLP each increase NQ lawyer salaries to £125,000 to match magic circle counterparts Clifford Chance and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP.
Commercial awareness; you can’t have too much of it and the more you work at it, the deeper and more nuanced yours will become.
Another week, another set of business stories to keep on top of. Here are just some of the stories that you should lavish your attention on.
For the third year in a row, more barristers are undertaking pupillage, according to the 2024 Regulatory Decisions annual report published by the Bar Standards Board (BSB).
In a pilot LGBT mentoring scheme being launched in April by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, 10 large law firms have signed up to offer free help and advice to small and medium-sized firms on how to become more inclusive employers.
The number of law firms paying staff at least the Real Living Wage has increased to 135, including all five of the magic circle and 20 of the top 30 UK firms.
We hope that you are spending a good chunk of your time today (i) voting, and (ii) following the rolling news coverage, but do take a moment to cast an eye over these commercially interesting stories as well.
The Inns of Court College of Advocacy (ICCA) has announced that the application portal for its new Bar course starting in September 2020 will open on 9 December.
On 1 May the largest ever merger in the UK legal services market went live, with CMS UK, Nabarro and Olswang joining together to create a new super-firm
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has pledged to emphasise the good work of law firms which handle asylum cases following a highly positive review of the sector.
Reed Smith has agreed to become the first law firm to place all of its work experience opportunities on www.GoThinkBig.co.uk, an initiative which aims to make thousands of diverse work experience opportunities available to anyone with access to the Internet.
Wiltshire-based firms Withy King and Lemon & Co have confirmed that they are to merge on 30 June 2014.
Alison Saunders will become the new director of public prosecutions on 1 November 2013, as Keir Starmer QC stands down at the end of his five-year term.
The College of Law (CoL) has been appointed as the preferred provider of the Professional Skills Course (PSC) for Accutrainee, the legal training organisation.
Responses to the Ministry of Justice’s latest proposals to reform advocacy fees have shown a divide in opinion between solicitors and barristers.
Tooks Chambers - the set of Michael Mansfield QC - has decided to begin the process of dissolution as the "direct result of the government's legal aid policies".
This is the first in a weekly series of news digests, collecting together some of the key business stories that you should keep an eye on for two important reasons.
