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Petition calling for botched bar exams to be scrapped attracts over 1,200 signatures
Just grade us on the rest of the BPTC, students urge
BLM to shutter two offices in permanent remote-working push
Launches redundancy consultation
Former MI5 boss to become law lecturer
Sir Andrew Parker takes up visiting prof role at Northumbria Law School
BPP secures indefinite degree-awarding powers
Previously assigned on time-limited basis
Bar exams: BSB plans to offer ‘pen and paper’ resits as soon as possible
Regulator will launch 'lessons learned review' of testing issues
Legal education charity backs 19 ‘social justice’ training contracts
Applications now open
Ashurst ditches A-Level requirements for training contract hopefuls as government performs exam U-turn
Follows similar move by DWF
Former lawyer missed out on pupillage spot because chambers ‘hired a black guy last year’
The incident -- which happened around 30 years ago -- will be familiar to every black person looking for a job in industry, says now-entrepreneur Dawid Konotey-Ahulu
BPTC online exam chaos continues into second week
Twitter flooded with fresh reports of bar students being unable to access today's civil litigation assessment
JLD writes to BPP over LPC lockdown complaints
'Complaints go through a robust, credible and independent procedure of review to ensure a satisfactory conclusion is reached', says law school in statement
Suspension for ex-magic circle lawyer caught with cocaine for second time
Rumbled by an anonymous letter to HR
Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from the weekend
Edinburgh Uni law grad offered £1,000 to sit student’s online exam
Approached by mystery man on behalf of wealthy law student
BPTC student ‘forced to defer’ exams over fears she’d have to remove headscarf for male invigilator
BSB says proctoring partner could not guarantee female assessor due to increased demand during pandemic
DWF scraps specific A-Level requirements for training contract seekers
Social mobility push comes amid results chaos for college leavers
11 photos of Taylor Swift dressed like law firms
Legal lookbook includes the magic circle
Best of the blogs
Weekly round-up of the top legal blogosphere posts
Let junior lawyers use your office if you’re not around, Freshfields partners told
New policy to coincide with move to 100 Bishopsgate
Barristers dish out career wisdom to mark A-Level results day
Exams scrapped in wake of coronavirus mean sixth-formers receive grades based on predictions and schools' past performance