These pay jumps also create bunching. Junior lawyers earn close to mid-level associates, which is causing frustration among those with more experience but little pay progression. Expect rising internal pressure at firms that don’t adjust associate banding soon.
]]>lol what, that hasn’t been announced.
]]>Whoops! This shows how amateur our funds capability is…
]]>For reference I finish work at 7/7.30pm everyday
]]>The non-disclosure of salaries says all you need to know about DWF.
From the grapevine I’ve heard regional rates are around £50k and London is around £70-80k but can’t confirm.
]]>We don’t sell our souls, we’re just not incompetent. You go to a high street solicitor, and beyond the SQE surface level procedure and answers that could have been better focused by chat gpt, they give you some drivel at a still high price. City solicitors are paid a ridiculous amount of money because they are precise, get to the bottom of things, and get it right. Access to justice is low not because of what the few really good lawyers do, it’s because the average non-corporate person either can’t afford a lawyer or will have to spend a lot of money on a lawyer that will be barely above the SRA’s standard of not making a completely egregious mess, but will still mess up the case by one small omission after the other and, frankly, a lazy service given what an advocate is supposed to be. Enjoy thinking being a lawyer is about dating TR1 forms and explaining the most obvious 5 rules in PACE to the degree of a medium-good law student at Kings.
]]>This is such dross. You have no idea what City law involves and your sympathy is unwanted.
]]>Hopefully Sassi changes this tone. Otherwise the firm will fall fast.
]]>This has to be bait. I don’t know anyone at hsf working substantially fewer hrs than mc
]]>Attorney General
]]>RPC has not kept up with raises for a long time. It is very telling that articles discussing salary do not include RPC anymore – there simply isn’t anything to report.
It is trying to position itself as a litigation powerhouse competing with the best litigation teams in the city but will not pay the commensurate salaries. Our former managing partner said in a town hall that the increased cost of living does not mean we should be paid more because if the cost of living went down they wouldn’t be giving us a pay cut.
I was a junior associate and left. I now make more than a senior associate there does.
]]>Horrible bunching
]]>I’d love to actually see DWF London rates (probably similar to salaries at Greggs – no disrespect meant to Greggs workers), as they often get mentioned as being cheap skates but I’ve never seen any solid reference to salaries…
]]>Who is “AG”?
]]>Cheap firm that reacts to the ‘market’ about 1 to 2 years, and even then in as weak of a way possible to avoid mass exodus. It has always been the way.
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