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Video: Defendant strips completely NAKED and dances on judge’s bench
Meanwhile in South Africa…
Fancy a three-course lunch with City firm partners? Fundraising challenge has some awesome prizes
Rallying call to wannabe lawyers as National Pro Bono Week draws to a close
Berwin Leighton Paisner lifts post-Brexit referendum pay freeze
But it won’t backdate lawyer pay packets
Supreme Court success for families involved in bedroom tax battle
Seven-judge bench upholds the claims of Jacqueline Carmichael and Paul and Susan Rutherford
High Court judges take legal action against Liz Truss over pension discrimination
Lord Chancellor’s week goes from bad to worse
Pinsent Masons creates Brexit-focused artificial intelligent software to help identify ‘risks’ to clients
Futuristic software has already been put to work on "a number of multi-billion dollar transactions"
DWF hangs on to just 62% of its newly qualifying lawyers
“This is certainly a lower number of trainees than we’d hoped to retain”, says firm
Government confirms it WILL appeal to Supreme Court over Brexit ruling
Case to be heard in "early December"
City law firms bid to get in early with fintechs by offering them free legal advice
Could these start-ups be the banks of the future?
BPTC and pupillage could be rolled into one under new proposals
New route to qualification "needs to be more flexible and affordable", BSB tells Legal Cheek
Top Freshfields lawyer clocks up the miles using special treadmill desk
"I get good reports from my cardiologist"
K&L Gates bumps London-based junior lawyer salaries to £71,000
Trainees at the US headquartered outfit also handed fresh pay rises
The law firms with the best social life
It's not all work and no play
Solicitor who used law firm Twitter account to boast of ‘great win’ over parents of vulnerable child reprimanded by regulator
Mark Small's actions sparked outrage this summer
Defendant who went viral for questioning face tattoo lawyer’s skills reveals ‘she got me off’
Never judge a book by its cover
BPP launches advocacy competition to give wannabe BPTC students a taste of life at the bar
Those who impress could receive a barrister training scholarship
Baker & McKenzie becomes latest City outfit to embrace flexi-working movement
But does the latest law firm trend really help stressed out lawyers?
King & Wood Mallesons departures continue as rumours regarding firm’s financial status persist
A look at the turbulence shaking the international giant
Top law firm partner who handed associate lover £550,000 chunk of client’s estate struck off
Ex-Penningtons Manches lawyer accepted his independence had become compromised