Law firms across England and Wales hired employment law specialists in record numbers last year as changes to UK legislation, particularly IR35, kept legal teams busy, new research shows.
Business management vacancies in the UK legal sector are making up an increasingly larger share of private practice jobs, accounting at one stage for over half of overall law firm recruitment, new research shows.
Legal jobs reached record levels in 2021 as companies sought additional legal expertise during a second consecutive year of economic uncertainty, according to BCL Legal and Vacancysoft. Download the report now.
BBC News published a story using Vacancysoft and BCL Legal data on how vacancies for London-based associates rose 131% year-on-year last year. Read the full article here.