Jamie Hamilton

Aug 2, 2024 | rollonfriday.com | Jamie Hamilton

White & Caseload of cash. White & Case is raising salaries for its newly-qualified solicitors to £175k, and giving significant pay rises to its other junior lawyers as well. Effective from 1 January 2025, the firm will raise its NQ salary from £150k to £175k, placing it very much towards the top end of the ongoing NQ pay war, where big bucks US firms now shower London NQs with salaries of £170k+.

Aug 2, 2024 | rollonfriday.com | Jamie Hamilton

'My chattels. Mine!'A judge whose brother-in-law wouldn't stop accusing him of fiddling a will has been granted an injunction. When Juliet Pattinson’s mother died in 2022, she and her husband, District Judge Tim Pattinson, were appointed executors of her will. Juliet Pattinson was left certain items and the ability to select others if she wanted them, plus a gift of £100,000.

Aug 1, 2024 | rollonfriday.com | Jamie Hamilton

'My chattels. Mine!'A judge whose brother-in-law wouldn't stop accusing him of fiddling a will has been granted an injunction. When Juliet Pattinson’s mother died in 2022, she and her husband, District Judge Tim Pattinson, were appointed executors of her will. Juliet Pattinson was left certain items and the ability to select others if she wanted them, plus a gift of £100,000.

Aug 1, 2024 | rollonfriday.com | Jamie Hamilton

'And I'm going to qualify in London, yes?'Linklaters has announced its trainee retention rate after redistributing a number of newly-qualified solicitors from its shuttered Moscow office. The magic circle firm is keeping 46 out of 59 NQs in its September cohort, equivalent to 78%. Rather than let them go and blame extenuating circumstances, 11 of the trainees in its Moscow office were sprinkled across Links’ network after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine led to the firm closing down the office.

Aug 1, 2024 | rollonfriday.com | Jamie Hamilton

No VAR needed for this verdict. A judge has ridiculed a wannabe WAG for her outrageous demands. After an affair with Manchester City Football Club and England star Kyle Walker spawned two children, Lauryn Goodman applied to gold-plate the financial support he had agreed to provide. Although Judge Hess stated in his juicy judgment that “it is certainly not the role of the Financial Remedies Court to make moral judgments”, he still found a way to express his disdain.