Latest News
SRA opts for £6.08 per hour for trainee minimum wage
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is scrapping its trainee minimum pay in favour of the main rate in the National Minimum Wage.
NLS offers students the chance to qualify in India
Northumbria Law School (NLS) has been awarded the power to provide degrees to students wishing to qualify in India.
LAC announces apprenticeships for legal services
The London Apprenticeship Company (LAC) is planning to make the first legal services apprenticeships available next year.
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Firm reveals 500 to 1 chance of landing a training contract
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Farrer & Co announces 100 per cent NQ retention
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Dewey attempts to rehouse trainees in face of uncertain future
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Dewey latest: no guarantee of London associate pay after 31 May
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Freshfields confirms salary bands for new merit-based pay system
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Linklaters associates receive pay rise in salary thaw
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Jones Day hikes trainee pay to £41,000
Features & Analysis
Bar stall
The disparity between the number of students completing the BPTC and the pupillage places on offer means many would-be barristers are in career limbo. Christian Metcalfe reports
Legal market braced for onslaught of alternative business structures
Alternative business structures (ABSs) are a new form of practice developed through the Legal Services Act (LSA).
Latecomers welcome at L2B event
Our Not Too Late for Law event helped mature applicants find the confidence and practical advice they will need to enter the profession
Analysis: Eversheds groundbreaking LPC
Leading law firm training partners and course providers fear that a lack of flexibility in the solicitors’ qualification regime is hampering the English legal profession’s competitiveness - and they are pressing regulators to reform the process.
Editor's weekly: It could be you
As legal news stories go there is no getting away from Dewey & LeBoeuf at the moment, and as more partners leave and the London office faces collapse what is happening with the trainees?
How to end up in-house?
I would really like to end up as an in-house lawyer at a tech firm, does it matter where and in to what area I qualify?
Regional focus Bristol
Building a reputation as an economic powerhouse to rival any UK city outside London, the capital of the South West has shown great resilience during the recession and looks set to return to growth as a centre for the sectors that are likely to blossom.
Legal Brief
Legal Brief: The blame game
While the mainstream media focused last week on the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee’s criticism of Rupert Murdoch for the News of the World (NoW) phone-hacking scandal, what the committee’s report said about the legal players in the saga is equally interesting.
The Blog
Too many LPC students - where does responsibility lie?
“I love law! But was I right to start the LPC without having secured a training contract?” We often falter when we take stock of reality. And this is especially true of law students who’ve forked over several thousands of pounds to private LPC providers.
From The Lawyer Editor
Lost in translation
The first hint came when Slaughter and May’s US friend Davis Polk raided Freshfields to set up an English-law capital markets practice in London.
But do you know what working as a lawyer actually involves? And are you sure of the steps you have to take to qualify as a solicitor or barrister?