City law firm Ashurst LLP has announced pay rises for both its London-based trainee solicitors and newly-qualified lawyers.

CMS will be offering 95 training contract places in the coming recruitment year, making it the second-highest training contract provider in the UK.

Dentons has set a 20% partner diversity target for its UK, Ireland and Middle East partnership in response to the Black Lives Matter protests.

The gender pay gap for partners and employees at Freshfields has reduced to 57.2% according to figures published at the end of March 2020.

Nearly 80% of UK employers have a gender pay gap that favours men in 2022-2023.  

The latest reporting from magic circle firm Linklaters LLP indicates that its gender and ethnicity pay gaps have narrowed from 2020, despite remaining far from where its wants or needs to be, according to senior partner Aedamar Comiskey. 

Freshfields wishes to distance itself from its ‘magic circle’ tag, the firm’s global managing partner has said. 

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP published its 2021 pay gap report last week, revealing another positive year in the firm’s efforts to reduce its gender pay gap. 

The Free Representation Unit is a charity that provides individuals with representation that they could not afford otherwise and gives junior lawyers a valuable opportunity to get practical advocacy experience. 

The Free Representation Unit (FRU) is a charity that provides individuals with representation that they couldn’t otherwise afford and gives junior lawyers a valuable opportunity to get practical advocacy experience.

More than 80% of lawyers consider flexible working to be more important than salaries when job hunting, according to a recent report.