Simmons & Simmons

Regional pay, has actually, dare I say it, increased at a greater rate this year, albeit fewer firms.

But there was an article that I think I, or maybe I wrote it, earlier this summer where Simmons & Simmons boosted its incubate in Bristol to 104,000. thousand pounds which is a staggering sum of money to be earning in the regions but I suspect many Bristolians listening right now will argue that Bristol isn't a cheap place to live either.

So that might be reflective of the rising rentals and house prices, et cetera, in Bristol.

But also maybe it's just to demonstrate firms like Simmons and other big players in Bristol and other regional offices are taking perhaps more London quality work and they can just pay their NQs more there but that is a staggering sum and I think there's a few firms now in the regions that are offering close if not over packages of £100,000 and I mean if you'd have told me that five years ago when I was writing pay stories I would have probably laughed at you just because yeah it's a staggering sum to earn but that's an important caveat when you're reading our pay data and that these are primarily London salaries we're talking.

Also, couldn't have a show without talking all things AI, and, well, we did.

We spoke to Raza Rizvi of Simmons & Simmons about the AI...

Well, the AI vision here in the UAE.

Raza is a technology law partner.

has started to sever this link.

According to the FT, at Simmons & Simmons, a UK-based international law firm, a custom AI tool named Percy now handles document review and legal summarization.

Presumably, the first thing Percy worked out was how to make a font size small enough so that the disclaimer doesn't seem longer than the document, and the second was how to build 26 hours in a 24-hour day Based on that alone, Percy is already partner material.

Some of the basic tasks that AI is being used for at law firms once taught the trade to fleets of trainee lawyers.

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