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How did your university do in the latest law school rankings?
Top 10 spots for UCL, LSE and Glasgow -- but Oxbridge dominates again

Pride 2021: Clifford Chance lawyers belt out gender-neutral track
Magic circle marks Pride month 🏳️🌈

A&O ups junior lawyer pay to £100k — includes £10k sign on bonus
Follows similar move by Clifford Chance

THIS WEEK: The Legal Cheek Summer Virtual Vacation Scheme
Featuring magic circle, US and international law firms

Kingsley Napley ditches ‘BAME’ title
London law firm says descriptor can 'disguise discrimination'

BCLP boosts NQ lawyer pay to £88k
10% rise

Birkbeck law student prepares to enter Love Island villa
Sharon Gaffka balances studies with work as a civil servant and hopes to couple up with an 'intellectual'

BBC takes ‘fresh look’ at the legal profession with new podcast for aspiring lawyers
‘Not All Lawyers Have Law Degrees’ champions atypical routes into law

Lord Chancellor raises alarm over ‘rule of law’ being ‘open to hijack from politically-motivated interests’
Announces even more constitutional changes

Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the weekend

London-born law prof becomes head of US competition regulator aged just 32
From 'unknown law student' to 'hipster antitrust chief' to Federal Trade Commissioner in just four years

Ashurst boosts NQ lawyer pay to £90,000
5% uplift

MoneyLaw latest: Simpson Thacher boosts junior lawyer pay to $205,000 in London
US outfits continue to splash the cash

Meet the lawyers dating England and Scotland’s footballers
Ahead of tonight's big game 🏴 vs 🏴

Best of the blogs
Weekly round-up of the top legal blogosphere posts

Gateley suffers client data loss in cyber security attack
Breach quickly identified by IT team who moved immediately to secure systems, firm says

Akin Gump ups London NQ salaries to $202,500
US MoneyLaw mania continues to rock the City

Former BBC legal correspondent joins London chambers
Clive Coleman becomes associate tenant at 23ES

Macfarlanes launches legal technologist grad scheme
Two-year TC alternative to start in September 2021

No cab rank? Supreme Court judges criticised for pricey private car rides
Official 1.4 mile trip cost £104