In this brand-new LCN Podcast episode, LawCareers.Net’s Bethany Wren (she/her) is in conversation with Iko Onuh and Beth Harland, trainee solicitors at Brighton and Hove Council, as they discuss what it’s like to train in-house at a local council.

Recent figures published by the Bar Standards Board indicate that Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic women are the lowest paid barristers. Meanwhile, their white male colleagues receive the highest incomes.

Well-heeled firm Hogan Lovells has been instrumental in a deal which sees luxury shoe company, Jimmy Choo, sold to a privately held Austrian company, Labelux.

As the spring-qualifying trainees at SNR Denton celebrate vastly improved retention rates, more firms' newly qualified (NQ) Spring 2011 figures have come to light.

Excellent commercial awareness is a key skill that all law firms look for in their future lawyers. What steps are you taking to develop yours? We have summarised some of the week’s commercial news for you.

The legal press, including Legal Business and the Law Society Gazette, have reported that Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is seeking a Manchester office as part of a 'near-shoring' strategy.

With the deadline for first round Bar Professional Training Course applications looming on Thursday 12 January, the Bar Standards Board has published its annual standards-monitoring reports on every UK institution providing the course.

The energy and natural resources sector is an important part of the legal landscape and is currently making more headlines than ever before.

All solicitors’ firms and barristers’ chambers desire a specific set of skills  from their trainees and pupils. This guide explains how to self-assess your skillset, demonstrate these key skills on application forms and focus on areas you need to improve.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) launched new research surrounding gaps in access to justice.

In its strictest sense, a company lawyer will advise clients on the rules and requirements of the Companies Act 2006, which is the prevailing legislation governing how UK companies are incorporated, registered, governed and dissolved.

BLM and Clyde & Co LLP have announced that they will merge this summer.

Allen & Overy LLP and Shearman & Sterling LLP have announced the first 40 partner promotions for A&O Shearman, with women making up 42% of promotions across both firms. 

Our recent commercial awareness case study video uses the PESTLE technique (Political Economical Social Technological Legal Environmental) to analyse the implications of the recent Flybe government bailout. 

International firm Kingsley Napley has adopted the Halo Code – which “explicitly protects employees who come to work with natural hair and protective hairstyles associated with their racial, ethnic, and cultural identities” – and has formally incorporated the code into its dress and appearance policy.

All law firms should pay trainee solicitors a minimum salary of no less than £18,183 outside London and £20,276 in London, the Law Society has stated in a non-binding recommendation.