First-year students are increasingly being targeted by top 20 law firms eager to reach the best candidates before their rivals.

Firms have called for Prime Minister Boris Johnson to make reporting of ethnicity pay gaps mandatory. In a letter to the Telegraph, firms have urged Johnson to make the transition from voluntary to mandatory for organisations with more than 250 employees.

One magic circle outfit and a trio of US-headquartered firms have revealed how many of their qualifying trainees are being retained as newly qualified solicitors this autumn. 

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

A number of law firms feature in work experience information provider RateMyPlacement’s recently revealed top 100 undergraduate employers for 2017. 

Many firms offer to pay their future trainees’ GDL and LPC fees, if they have been recruited while an undergraduate. 

The winners of the LawWorks Pro Bono Awards 2012 have been announced following a glamorous awards dinner held in June.

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. 

As reported in Legal Week, Norton Rose has joined forces with Sponsors for Educational Opportunity in order to encourage more black and ethnic minority individuals to sign up for its summer vacation scheme.

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

As the Leveson Inquiry rumbles on, it has published details of its costs in the period from July 2011 until January 2012, revealing that over £600,000 of public money has been spent on barristers' fees alone.

A number of City firms weathering the effects of coronavirus are evaluating the need for secretaries and support staff during the pandemic.

Law firms’ spring vacation schemes are being postponed in response to the global coronavirus crisis.

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.

First-year law students at City University London will learn about the reality of working in the legal profession through the introduction of a compulsory graduate market and employability module.

US firm Latham & Watkins and global giant Baker & McKenzie have been rated by students as the two best vacation scheme providers in the Legal Week Intelligence 2011 Law Student Report.

Founded in 2011, PRIME now has 61 firms involved, 27 partner organisations and has given out more than 12,000 weeks of work experience.

Allen & Overy LLP has become the highest earning magic circle law firm in the City after overtaking long-term rival.  

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