Magic Circle

Magic Circle firm Slaughter and May aims to have a quarter of its staff hail from lower social backgrounds within the next decade.

Clifford Chance has broken the £2 million pay barrier for partners after awarding them a 10 per cent pay rise, The Times reports. The firm said the average annual drawing for its full-equity partners was £2.04 million, putting it ahead of Allen & Overy, which announced an equivalent

Newly qualified solicitors at Linklaters will receive salaries of just over £107,000 as the magic circle firm raises the stakes in the ongoing pay war amongst law firms in the City. The firm confirmed it will pay NQs £107,500 – a 7.5 per cent rise at the firm and £500 more th

Magic Circle firms have overtaken US firms in the UK league table for mergers and acquisitions, The Times reports. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, with 60 deals worth $144.4 billion over the past year, led the latest Mergermarket league table compiled for Legal Week, followed by Slaughter and May, H