The salaries of newly qualified solicitors are on the up.
Almost daily I get an email from one legal publication or another telling me how London law firms are hiking the pay of their newly qualified solicitors (NQs) to a level considerably more than partners in many Welsh firms earn.
NQs are solicitors who have completed their solicitors’ exams and undertaken training of up to two years while working at a law firm. It’s a long time since I did my training contract but my recollection of it was that although there was quite a lot of letter writing and legal research there was far more accompanying partners to meetings to take notes and bag carrying to and from court. You learned a lot in those two years, but the day you qualified you were still pretty inexperienced.
