‘It’s not appropriate’: Top judge expresses concern over McKenzie friends after hearing criminal appeals prepared by law students
Two of the applications received legal support from students at Northumbria University and BPP Law School
Hogan Lovells bumps junior lawyer pay packets by 5% to £75,000
Trainees will take home an extra £1,000
Mark Zuckerberg gets honorary law degree from Harvard, the university he dropped out of to start Facebook
He joins a long list of, sometimes unusual, celebs with honorary degrees
Research: Law degrees are more reliant on EU funding than languages degrees
University law faculties receive millions of pounds a year from Europe — will Brexit change this?
The reality of taking the CILEx route: ‘I work just as hard as a solicitor for less money and less respect’
An anonymous trainee legal exec thinks attitudes to the apprenticeship need to change
Morning round-up: Friday 26 May
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Seven law firm partners named on 2017 ‘ethnic minority role model’ power list
Lawyers at Freshfields, Linklaters, Slaughter and May, Clifford Chance and BLP all make the cut
Barristers and football agents team up to kick off new ‘innovative’ legal business
VII Law becomes the bar’s first licensed ABS
Revealed: 60% of lawyers think visible tattoos are not acceptable in their firms and chambers
Could we see a discrimination case in the near future?
Nottingham Trent’s student-staffed ‘teaching law firm’ launches commercial advice arm
Legal centre was handed an ABS licence by the SRA in 2015
Exclusive: There are 16,000 barristers currently practising, just 110 have criminal convictions
A third of these were for drink driving
Pro bono appeal: Manchester Law Society calls on lawyers to help victims of arena terrorist attack
Twenty-two people killed after suicide bomber targeted Ariana Grande concert
Cambridge college names first female head in its 700-year history, and she’s an international and company law lecturer
She did her training contract at Clifford Chance
BPP criminal law exam delayed by over an hour due to shortage of question papers
Exclusive: GDL-ers were told to remain in their seats while the problem was resolved
Legal Cheek Journal
Prioritise intent, not effects: A nuanced approach to DDoS cyber attacks and free speech
LSE student Izaan Khan sets out his vision for the future of cyber crime law — in the winning entry of the BARBRI Cyber Crime Blogging Prize
Social media fumes as female QC caught having rush hour romp with male solicitor has criminal record wiped, but his caution stands
The SRA has confirmed it will not bring disciplinary action against him
LSE law second year wins the BARBRI International Cyber Crime Blogging Prize
Izaan Khan edges BPP Law School graduate to win return transatlantic flight
London Legal Walk: Lawyers descend on sun-soaked capital for annual 10km charity event
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‘Don’t make snap decisions too soon’, SRA tells aspiring solicitors contemplating whether to take the LPC or the super-exam
Exclusive video interview: Legal Cheek speaks to the regulator’s director of education and training
ULaw strikes LPC and GDL deal with the University of Reading
Postgrad courses on offer at Berkshire-based campus from this September
Why junior lawyers shouldn’t be afraid of AI, by a law student
We shouldn’t waste the abundance of opportunities out there
The Trial: Lawyers react to new docudrama starring real QCs and an ex-Old Bailey judge
‘First major inaccuracy, it started on time’
LinkedIn removes Lord Harley’s incredible profile following investigation
Exclusive: He will no longer be able to access it
Social media giggles as national newspaper describes lawyer as ‘a full QC’
The next ‘top barrister’?
A Latham & Watkins lawyer is standing for UKIP in the general election
Tim Page is counsel at the US giant’s London office
Baker McKenzie lawyer reunited with have-a-go hero law student who helped him during train station attack
John Rowley urges the final year to follow in his footsteps and become a prosecutor
Distance learning: desirable or a disadvantage?
I live in Hong Kong, but my law school is in London
University of Leeds produces ultimate law school ‘league table of league tables’
The power list combines rankings from ‘The Complete University Guide’, ‘The Times University League Table’ and ‘The Guardian University Rankings’
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‘It’s not appropriate’: Top judge expresses concern over McKenzie friends after hearing criminal appeals prepared by law students 
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Law student launches his own ‘law practice’ — and charges himself out at £25 an hour
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