{"id":621514,"date":"2026-06-04T22:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T22:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/621514\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T22:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T22:14:13","slug":"milbank-ups-trainee-lawyer-pay-in-london-to-record-breaking-75k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/621514\/","title":{"rendered":"Milbank ups trainee lawyer pay in London to record breaking \u00a375k"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Highest paid rookies<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Lead-money.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"479\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-224741\"  \/><br \/>The London office of US law firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalcheek.com\/firm\/milbank\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milbank<\/a> has increased trainee pay to record levels for the City, with trainees earning \u00a370,000 in year one, rising to \u00a375,000 in year two.<\/p>\n<p>The Legal Cheek <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalcheek.com\/the-firms-most-list\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Firms Most List 2026<\/a> shows the move up from previous rates of \u00a365,000 and \u00a370,000 puts Milbank\u2019s rookies at the very top of the pay table. Other elite US firms still pay at those rates \u2014 \u00a365k and \u00a370k \u2014 though at least some are expected to follow suit.<\/p>\n<p>The trainee rises come in the same week Milbank announced it had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalcheek.com\/2026\/06\/milbank-pushes-nq-lawyer-pay-to-235000\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">increased newly qualified salaries in both the US and London to $235,000<\/a>, equivalent to roughly \u00a3175,000. Only a handful of elite US firms pay their junior lawyers more, among them <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalcheek.com\/firm\/davis-polk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Davis Polk<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalcheek.com\/firm\/gibson-dunn\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gibson Dunn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalcheek.com\/firm\/paul-weiss\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Weiss<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalcheek.com\/firm\/willkie-farr-gallagher\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Willkie<\/a>, which all pay \u00a3180,000.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalcheek.com\/the-firms-most-list\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The 2026\u00a0Legal Cheek Firms Most List<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Highest paid rookies The London office of US law firm Milbank has increased trainee pay to record&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,210643,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-621514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-milbank","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}