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Here’s what a 150-year-old land law exam looks like
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RPC employee’s not so secret life as TikTok music star
Maya Yenn drops debut single she says 'is an ode to Millennial anxiety'
‘Has anyone had a good experience doing their TC remotely?’
I'm worried new home-working polices will harm my experience, one future trainee writes
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A&O targets 50% reduction in carbon emissions by 2030
Addresses direct and indirect emissions produced by firm
Cambridge law student crowned London Young Lawyers Group vlogging comp winner
Dylan Kawende shared the positive habits he developed during lockdown
ULaw awards honorary degrees to campaigner Gina Miller and magic circle lawyer turned pro football player and pundit Eniola Aluko
Duo to receive doctorates during virtual graduation ceremony this Saturday
Law students could challenge marking on grounds of free speech
Experts raise concerns over costly new claims against universities from government’s new Free Speech and Academic Freedom Bill
Law Society issues trainee support guidance following flurry of flexible working policies
Many firms now letting lawyers work away from the office 50% of the time
Latham sets lawyers’ Skype status to ‘away’ outside business hours to break ‘online 24/7 mindset’
Switch occurs automatically after 6pm
Exeter Law School to ‘move away’ from ‘white, Eurocentric curriculum’
Part of wider move across humanities department
City Law School suspends two-part bar course following low student sign-ups
Exclusive: Budding barristers prefer full and part-time options
Taylor Wessing thanks lawyers and staff with Covid bonuses and firm-wide holiday
Special payment amounts to 5% of salary
Barristers to share Gray’s Inn with 300 kids as new primary school gets go-ahead
To open amid top chambers next year, with kiddies lunching in historic hall
Norway tops European lawyer pay table with £112k average salary
UK ranks 9th with £94k
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Gowling latest to offer 50% home-working option to lawyers and staff
Trials flexible start and finish times, as well as compressed working weeks
Exclusive: Kaplan to award scholarships for SQE exam fees
SQE examiner making arrangements with SRA to provide 'financial assistance for a number of candidates'
Paralegal told she was a trainee solicitor secures compensation from former firm
Nicolette Browne-Marke, 26, represented herself at the employment tribunal
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