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  2. Career Clinic: Training in NY vs becoming a solicitor
  3. Dutch leader joins A&O on £8bn Danone deal
  4. Linklaters Italy signs up senior corporate duo
  5. Career Clinic: To be or not to be a lawyer

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Post of the day

"Well, the pay review at one of the big nationals has just been completed and, guess what, they have royally messed it up. The movement of NQ regional salaries upwards has clearly had no knock-on effect on any of the tiers above – at 4PQE I now earn what that level did at my previous firm two and a half years ago. The amount I earn is just under 80% of what a City NQ gets at this firm. So, much as the people I work with make this 'a great place to work', the pay doesn't" – Legal Week Wiki salary special

Drinking in the last chance saloon

Changes in the political climate have forced the Bar into adopting a more measured approach to reform – Editors' Blog

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