The five most popular articles on legalweek.com today are:
- Career Clinic: Should I hedge my bets about the Bar?
- Pinsents posts 11% fees boost to break £200m
- BLP toes City line with 4% pay rise
- 2008 Assistant Pay League: a Legal Week Wiki special
- A&O avoids associate raises for 2008
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Post of the day
"I was in a similar position doing the BVC with a good 2.1 from top 10 (but not Oxbridge) uni and while I had no problem getting mini-pupillages at the Brick Courts of this world, pupillage itself was much harder. I did two rounds of applications to top sets before realising it wasn't going to happen and I decided I'd rather be a solicitor in a top firm than a barrister in a not-so-good chambers. A magic circle firm snapped me up for a TC and, while I was initially fixed on being a litigator, I ended up qualifying in derivatives and am now working in-house - with no regrets about leaving the Bar" - Career Clinic: Should I hedge my bets about the Bar?
The path less travelled
For better or worse, Slaughter and May is now committed to its current path despite radical changes in the global legal market, says Alex Novarese - Editors' Blog
Top guns
Meet the UK's biggest transactional hitters as featured on Legal Week's regular Dealmaker column - now helpfully gathered in a single place, the all-new Dealmaker Directory
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