Ashurst has become the latest City player to increase the salaries of its newly qualified associates with rates moving from £125,000 to £140,000. The is equates to an extra £15,000 or 12%.

The pay boost means DLA Piper’s new associates now out-earn their counterparts at firms such as Ashurst and Reed Smith ...

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Fund further growth. Nnamdi Emelifeonwu, and Feargus MacDaeid. Two former Magic Circle lawyers have raised $30 million (£22 million) to fund their AI-powered legal tech company.

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Uglow also emphasises the importance of practice to adjust to this new style of assessment. She likens it to training for a marathon: “You don’t run 26 miles right away.

Wow, DLA Piper really scraped the bottom of the barrel with this one, huh? Hiring David “Brexit Blunder” Cameron as a consultant? What’s next, appointing a toaster to advise on tech law?