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Virtual student event on MONDAY: Secrets to Success North — with Pinsent Masons, Squire Patton Boggs, Kings Chambers and ULaw
Monday 9 November, from 4pm to 6:30pm, taking place virtually
Law graduate who came 76/85 in his class set to become world’s most powerful person
Joe Biden gives hope to struggling law students across the globe
BARBRI strikes SQE partnership with flexi-paralegal service
5,000 paralegals to have access to SQE scholarships and fee discounts
White male barristers out-earn female and BAME colleagues
Even with the same level of experience and areas of law, research finds
Best of the blogs
Weekly round-up of the top legal blogosphere posts
Virtual student event TODAY: How law firms go global — with Clyde & Co
Friday 6 November, from 2pm to 4pm, taking place virtually
DWF ‘cautiously optimistic’ following summer cost-cutting measures
Listed giant's revenue up 14% on previous 12 months
Teaching teenagers is harder than studying law at Harvard, says ex-English teacher in viral TikTok
Second year law student Rachel Cohen says her stress was higher before switching careers
Virtual student event TODAY: Life as a trainee — with Reed Smith
Thursday 5 November, from 4pm to 6:30pm, taking place virtually
Taylor Wessing ends flexi-working scheme early
Part of a wider roll back on its emergency coronavirus measures
Top law prof to oversee independent review into summer bar exam fiasco
BSB announces appointment of Hull Uni pro-vice chancellor Rebecca Huxley-Binns
Ban for former Travers Smith trainee who ‘misled colleagues’
Ex-rookie sanctioned over email to IT
Reed Smith signs SQE training deal with BARBRI and College of Legal Practice
Replaces LPC route from 2022
Big Four giant Deloitte snaps up London law firm
Acquires Kemp Little
Junior barrister imagines Boris Johnson and top Tory MPs as fictional QCs in hilarious Twitter thread
Filled with plenty of QC quips and lawyer in-jokes
‘The SQE Sessions’ launches as super-exam countdown begins
Half-day virtual event will answer questions on firms’ lips
Magic and silver circle law firms sign commitment to ensure BAME junior lawyers get same career opportunities as white counterparts
Elite firms join over 30 legal recruiters in new diversity pledge
ULaw unveils new SQE courses
Fees announced within the next month
Hogan Lovells reinstates NQ lawyer pay following COVID cuts
Global firm trimmed salaries in London and Birmingham earlier this summer