More on UK Hiring
 June 6, 2004

Just after all the major London firms announced that they were holding firm at the £50,000 ($86,000) salary level, Linklaters broke ranks and boosted salaries for newly qualified lawyers to £51,000. Clifford Chance, now the largest law firm in the world, had previously announced that it was cutting starting salaries to £48,000 but responding to the Linklaters increase by restoring their salary to £50,000.