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Decline in LPC applications suggests that students don't believe recent increase in training contract numbers will be sustained.

Articles in The Independent, The Telegraph and The Guardian about Robert Sayer disappear from search engine after implementation of controversial ruling.

TheStudentRoom message board removes barrister's ill-judged quip...after we got a screenshot.

Three months after releasing incorrect tenancy statistic, the Bar Council and Bar Standards Board produce correct figure.

The children of the financial crisis could pose a danger to law firms if their ambitions aren't accommodated.

Saturday's gay pride celebration saw a record 30,000 revellers march through central London. Among them was a large contingent from the legal profession.

Brazil 2014 legal geekery: striking parallels revealed.

High Court clears way for Selwyn Strachan — who was released from prison in Grenada in 2009 after Amnesty International slammed his "fatally flawed" trial — to become a solicitor.

*Guffaws*

Just about every law student has been there -- just think introduction to land law.

60% of stressed-out solicitors say volume of work is the problem; 42% cite client expectations.

A student, a trainee and a graduate recruiter share their experiences of vac schemes at Hogan Lovells, Mayer Brown and Norton Rose Fulbright to help wannabe lawyers about to start summer placements at City law firms.

Silicon Valley software company Palantir doesn't have in-house lawyers, it has "legal ninjas" -- and it wants to find one in London, where the term will surely never catch on.

Nabarro lawyers take a no-nonsense approach to their trainees.

In latest instalment of wall-to-wall Amal Alamuddin coverage, “sources” tell National Enquirer that barrister’s forthcoming nuptials to Hollywood actor may not happen.

What better way to mark the anniversary of the ancient charter of the liberties of England — which turned 799 yesterday — than with a "jelfie" (justice selfie)?

City law firm's bursary for state school students who are the first generation in their family to go to uni pays £2,500 a year -- and application requires only a 750-word essay.

Charity campaign manager-turned-human rights lawyer Steve Broach — who was called to the Bar in 2008 — shares wisdom gleaned from this year’s pupil selection process at glamour set Doughty Street.

Landmark Chambers’ Nathalie Lieven QC is up for an award in the same awards ceremony she is judging. But The Lawyer magazine denies there is a conflict of interest.

Suggestion that solicitors at magic circle giant are a “select group that is superior” to others goes down badly.

Of all subjects, it had to be land...