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Ban for rookie solicitor who ‘falsified’ LPC certificate to dupe regulator
Kulvinder Kooner was applying to be added to the roll

New legal aid rules threaten access to justice for asylum seekers and vulnerable migrants, young lawyers warn
Young Legal Aid Lawyers urge Legal Cheek readers to back motion to block regulations
Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from the weekend

Ex-Baker McKenzie boss who attempted to kiss junior lawyer fined £55,000
Amounted to serious professional misconduct, tribunal finds

Junior lawyers call for super-exam delay as it warns MCQs may be too easy
War of words between JLD and regulator rumbles on

Uni law degrees don’t prepare grads for law firm life, report claims
Bosses bemoan 'basic grammatical mistakes' and lack of commercial awareness

The best of the blogs
Weekly round-up of the top legal blogosphere posts

Unexpected death of former Baker McKenzie chief was suicide, inquest hears
Paul Rawlinson took his own life at Swiss treatment centre

Taylor Wessing furloughs lawyers and green lights flexi-working scheme
Bonus payments will be split into two instalments

Scottish universities outperform English counterparts in latest law school rankings
Oxbridge duo dominate top spots

Northumbria Uni law students’ anger at first year who posted boyfriend’s racist rant on Instagram
Both since handed police cautions

Mills & Reeve keeps 16 out of 18 autumn NQs
One on fixed-term deal

The Legal Cheek Podcast: Why failure is just a form of feedback
We sit down with private equity partner Richard Youle ?

Birkbeck Uni law graduate looks to privately prosecute Dominic Cummings for Durham trip
Mahsa Taliefar is seeking £300,000 in online fundraiser

Stephenson Harwood embraces earn-while-you-learn solicitor apprenticeships
City player also launches £15k a year scholarship fund in diversity push

Durham Uni law student tackles lockdown loneliness with charity chatline
'Chit-chat' by Lewis Alexander Baxter aims to 'connect the nation through conversation'

Top chambers postpone mini-pupillage schemes in response to COVID-19
But some sets are offering virtual minis and webinars

Exam blunder sees Oxford University law students given wrong criminal paper
Told of error halfway through open-book assessment

Wife of 25 Bedford Row barrister reveals husband’s battles with racism in viral Facebook post
'People often assume that he is the defendant', writes Katie Lynch

Squire Patton Boggs and Osborne Clarke move summer vacation schemes online
Law firms continue to switch to virtual programmes amid virus disruption