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Applications now open for Legal Cheek Virtual Pupillage Fair
Leading chambers and law schools return on 8 October for UK’s biggest bar careers event
Anonymous criminal barrister posts breakdown of entire year’s earnings on Twitter — less than £20,000
£19.5k BEFORE chambers rent, insurance and practising certificate
Has a robot really just hired a lawyer?
Chatbot seeks legal rep after becoming sentient, claims AI engineer
Criminal bar strike in pics 📸
Barristers join picket lines across the country
RPC and Taylor Wessing employees win award for alien invasion music video
Meet the duo repping City law in music
Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the weekend
Just over ONE WEEK to go: The Legal Cheek Summer 2022 Virtual Vacation Scheme
Featuring magic circle, US and international law firms. Free to attend and open to all!
A&O and Travers Smith launch LGBTQI Legal Aid Fund
City duo to support organisations in countries where same-sex relations and trans identities are criminalised
Mock trial winner ‘lost for words’ after scooping Smart car
Another competition, another car 🚗
Partners less happy than trainees, research suggests
It would appear money doesn't buy happiness
Best of the blogs
Weekly round-up of the top legal blogosphere posts
High Court rejects barrister’s appeal against fine for calling opponent a ‘hysterical woman’
Judge dismisses argument that the sanction infringed on freedom of expression
Mayer Brown posts autumn retention score with one of the City’s first solicitor apprentices accepting NQ role
6 out of 9 rookies to stay put
RPC increases trainee pay in London and Bristol
City rookies to earn £48k
SQE prep provider creates ‘humanitarian scholarship’ for aspiring lawyers fleeing war
Half price SQE1 course with BARBRI
ULaw launches bar course in Newcastle
First budding barristers start this September
Criminal solicitor to share comical tales of the justice system at Edinburgh Fringe
Shit Lawyer is 'a manifesto for change', says Abigail Rolling