Several firms have revealed how many of their Spring 2014 qualifiers will be staying on as newly qualified solicitors.

Legal Week reports that both Linklaters and Allen & Overy have announced a freeze on associate pay bands for the 2011-12 financial year.

A pupil barrister and a trainee solicitor have launched a scheme that will accredit law students to provide advice at law centres

The College of Law is in talks with the Singapore Institute of Legal Education to open a campus in Singapore later this year, in a move that will see the CoL become the first British law school to establish a campus in Asia.

The Social Mobility Foundation has opened applications for its 2014 programmes, including law, which provide young people from less privileged backgrounds with free mentoring, skills development, internships and support with university applications.

As universities plan to hike tuition fees, some firms are to review the financial assistance on offer to their future trainees.

Six leading law firms are set to attend the third annual OPEN event for disabled students who are interested in a career in commercial law.

Law firms across the country have released their trainee retention figures for September 2012.

The five ‘magic circle’ firms have revealed their partner promotions for 2019, with women making up just 29% of this year’s promotions.

The social mobility scheme Pathways to Law is being widened to GCSE students, the Sutton Trust has announced. 

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

The successes of legal professionals and firms were recognised at the Law Society Excellence Awards, held earlier this month at the Park Plaza Hotel, Westminster.

Ropes & Gray’s newly-qualified solicitors will continue to earn a minimum of £130,000 this autumn, including the five trainees being retained who are qualifying in September 2020.

City law firm Macfarlanes was the first non-magic circle firm to increase its newly qualified (NQ) lawyer salary in line with the ongoing NQ pay war. 

Diversity organisation Aspiring Solicitors has opened team registrations for its national commercial awareness competition 2017-18. 

City firms have lined up in support of diversity organisation Rare’s new ‘Vantage’ scheme, an online recruitment tool designed to help candidates from less-privileged backgrounds break through the artificial barriers holding them back from careers in law.

In a pilot LGBT mentoring scheme being launched in April by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, 10 large law firms have signed up to offer free help and advice to small and medium-sized firms on how to become more inclusive employers.

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

Law firms including Allen & Overy, Pinsent Masons and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner have increased the salaries for their newly qualified (NQ) lawyers in the UK in response to NQ salary surges in the US.