Slaughter and May has announced the introduction of a new scheme, which allows associates to reduce their working hours for less pay, enabling them the “time to pursue other interests and maintain a greater work/life balance”.

Magic circle firm Clifford Chance has revealed its strongest set of financial results as the firm’s profits increase despite a volatile final quarter.

The government is to continue with its plans to increase court fees for immigration and asylum cases by up to 500%, despite near-unanimous opposition from lawyers, law centres, unions and community groups.

Suffolk Law Centre, launched last year to fill the gap of legal advice services in the county, has helped 2,300 people in its first year.

CILEx president Nick Hanning has urged Justice Secretary Chris Grayling to make further concessions to his controversial plans to change legal aid, following a partial U-turn on the government’s proposal to deny legal aid recipients the right to choose a lawyer.

The national firm formerly known as Bond Dickinson has become Womble Bond Dickinson after a high-profile merger – not with the venerable family-run operation of the Wimbledon-based eco rodents, but with US firm Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice. 

The lack of access to many key legal services during the coronavirus pandemic has created a build-up of demand that the legal sector is poorly equipped to handle, leading legal figures have warned.

Clifford Chance and A&O Shearman become the latest magic circle law firms to increase pay for newly qualified (NQ) solicitors to £150,000, after their counterparts announced similar moves in recent weeks. 

A recent European Court of Justice ruling means that insurers will no longer be able to use gender as a basis for determining the cost of insurance premiums, with car insurance, life insurance and pension annuities all to be affected.

Mid-tier law firms Simmons & Simmons LLP, RPC and Shoosmiths have launched new policies to reward lawyers for billing higher hours, with bonuses of up to 40% of base salary on offer. 

Sheridans, a media law firm based in London, has confirmed that it will accept the digital currency Bitcoin as payment for its services.

Save Justice UK is asking as many people as possible to sign postcards protesting against the government's plans to cut legal aid, before delivering them to deputy prime minister Nick Clegg in an attention grabbing media stunt.

Several City firms are set to expand their offerings and strengthen existing teams by opening offices in Europe.

The news comes after the UK officially left the EU at midnight on 31 December 2020.

Central Applications Board figures leaked to The Lawyer have revealed that LPC take-up has plummeted across the market, with most providers experiencing a double-digit decrease in students.

Small and medium-sized firms are increasingly turning to mergers as a way of coping with a lack of growth, research has suggested.

Leading regional firm Michelmores has launched an exclusively London-based training contract, with the first intake of trainees set to start in September 2019.