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Leaked data reveals that top government lawyers have been offered an average 16% pay increase but a third of the Government Legal Department’s workforce have been excluded from the deal.
At our LawCareersNetLIVE Manchester event on 29 November 2024, the panel of top law firm partners addressed the key issues affecting law firms in 2025. The session helped delegates understand how firms operate as businesses and the role they will play as trainees.
Since the financial meltdown of 2008, and given the ongoing fluctuations in stock markets across the globe, financial services specialists must surely be some of the busiest lawyers in town.
The government has dubbed two of the City’s biggest law firms, Baker & McKenzie and Linklaters, “social mobility champions”.
The Bar Council is this week celebrating a decade of its flagship social mobility initiative, Bar Placement Week, as well as launching a related online campaign, entitled ‘I am the Bar’.
City firms have revealed plans to reduce office space, as lawyers forecast remote working to become the new norm.
Summer’s over, it’s back to law school. What better way to begin the autumn term than LCN’s latest commercial news round-up.
The government is considering whether to appeal a High Court judgment that controversial cuts to criminal legal aid are unlawful.
How is the Financial Services Authority changing its approach to regulation?
Read our top 10 tips for making a great impression when on a vacation scheme and getting the most out of the experience.
The Law Reform Committee of the Bar Council is running its annual essay competition, asking for submissions of no more than 3,000 words that identify a desirable, practical and useful law reform.
Watch our video to hear from Louis Foscolo, who started with us as a trainee and is now a partner at Kennedys. Louis works in our property, energy and contract team and talks about the type of work he is involved with.
This Mental Health Awareness Week, LawCare highlights “the critical role of physical activity in managing our mental health”, particularly in the legal industry, which is known for “its long hours, high stress and sedentary lifestyle”.
The government has asked victims of the Windrush scandal to sign non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) in return for fast-tracking their compensation claims, in the latest high-profile example of the controversial practice.
Why has the government proposed a company register of beneficial owners?
Norwich-based firm Leathes Prior is planning the first football-related alternative business structure (ABS).
The SRA will be making unannounced visits to 100 "randomly selected" law firms in order to assess their compliance with diversity reporting requirements, it was announced at the Law Society Firms Diversity Forum meeting in September.
The ethical considerations of being a barrister are not being taught to Bar students because so much learning time is devoted to preparing for the “massive memory test” that is their exams, according to a senior lecturer and former barrister.
