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#RoundMyKitchenTable: Aldridge & Poulter Analyse Week’s Legal News

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Journalist Alex Aldridge and solicitor Kevin Poulter discuss the week’s legal news over a bottle of Tesco Value red wine around Alex’s kitchen table (pictured).

What does former Junior Lawyer Division of the Law Society honcho Poulter think of the proposal to scrap the minimum trainee solicitor salary?

How does Aldridge, whose Guardian law column this week criticised law schools’ sloppiness, propose to revolutionise legal education.

And do the pair recommend signing off work emails with a ‘x’?

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