O’Melveny & Myers outgoing London head Solomon Wifa is set to join Willkie Farr & Gallagher today (15 June 2015), as the firm works to build its private equity and funds practices in London. O’Melveny named European regional transactions head and tax partner Jan Birtwell as its London office head last week, as Wifa stepped […]
Mishcon de Reya managing partner Kevin Gold has vetoed the firm joining any more bank panels in a bid to ensure banking litigation growth. “We act for four or five banks who we can’t sue, but we won’t act for any others and we won’t take a mandate from any of those where it precludes […]
This article discusses skilful people management for GCs from two aspects – managing your own team and also how to manage people in other parts of the business. It also covers how in-house teams can retain and engage the best talent.
In 2014, Lawyer 2B ran a stress survey. With more than 500 responses, it sparked a good deal of debate about mental wellbeing in the profession. This salary survey took the opportunity to ask the questions again, but on a much larger scale. The results confirm many of the findings of the previous study, but with a […]
Across all private practice respondents to this survey, the average salary for a man was £87,820, while the average salary for a woman was £63,518. This figure is, of course, skewed by the fact that there are more men in senior positions across the legal profession. Indeed, at newly-qualified level, the picture looks different. Almost […]
Holiday allowances are fairly standard across the legal profession – and the entire UK workforce, for that matter. Some employers are slightly more generous than others when it comes to paid leave but they stay within fairly basic parameters. It’s a rare law firm that goes down the Richard Branson route of telling staff to […]
Despite dissatisfaction with pay among many, the vast majority of lawyers – 93.4 per cent – are happy in their current practice area, and relatively few want to leave the profession. Asked where they would like to go for their next job, only 6.1 per cent said they wanted to leave the legal profession entirely. […]
Overall, less than half – 46.2 per cent – of all respondents to the survey received a bonus last year. This overall figure was skewed by in-house respondents, however, who were far more likely to get one. As mentioned above, 71.4 per cent of in-housers who responded to our survey received a bonus in 2014/15, […]
Across the UK, 72.4 per cent of lawyers received a pay rise in 2014-15. Salaries rose fastest in Scotland. North of the border, some 22.9 per cent of respondents got a pay rise of more than 10 per cent, compared with 15.9 per cent in London and 14.6 per cent nationally. In general, however, a […]
Salaries for newly-qualified solicitors are more transparent than those further up the market, since firms tend to publish them as part of their efforts to woo the most talented graduates. The gap between the magic circle and the US firms at the top of the market should come as no surprise, then. While the American […]
Precisely one-quarter of respondents to the survey work in-house – an area that is an increasingly popular and well-regarded career choice among lawyers. Typically, base salaries are lower in-house, with some newly-qualified lawyers here earning in the low £40,000s – though depending on the type of employer others might take home closer to £60,000. The […]
When we sent out our salary survey questionnaire it attracted more than 6,000 responses. If there’s a larger salary survey in the market we’d like to know about it. What is certain is that the results in today’s issue (see the report, starting on page 10) plus the extended results online at The Lawyer.com/salarysurvey provide […]