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SRA: Trainees can qualify before completing Professional Skills Course
But must finish all modules within one year of being admitted
Legal Cheek Podcast: Meet the Durham Uni law student tackling mental health
We sit down with social entrepreneur Lewis Baxter ?
University of Oxford’s Professor Rebecca Williams to deliver future of legal education keynote at LegalEdCon
Conference takes place virtually on 14 May
Best of the blogs
Weekly round-up of the top legal blogosphere posts
Largest law firm in the world asks staff to work four-day week in wake of pandemic
Dentons follows Norton Rose Fulbright in implementing voluntary flexible working arrangements
Sussex Uni law student leads call for tuition fee cuts as lectures move online
COVID-19: Petition received almost 300 student signatures
Biotech start-up calls on law firms to donate acetate sheets for PPE production
Plastic A4 covers converted into face masks for NHS workers
London lawyer in Frozen lockdown parody
Charlotte Fisher dons Disney character Elsa get-up to raise funds for NHS charities
Solicitor struck off after losing work briefcase launches appeal crowdfunder
Claire Louise Matthews now has a pro bono legal team after going unrepresented at disciplinary hearing
Clifford Chance defers partner profits and freezes salary reviews in wake of virus
Follows similar financial measures by magic circle counterparts
How law students can make the most of the lockdown
From virtual vac schemes to volunteering -- wannabe lawyers should use their time wisely, advises LPC student Charlotte Capper
Irwin Mitchell delays trainee start dates by six months in response to pandemic
Exclusive: New starters will now join in February 2021
Justices appear ‘virtually’ during Supreme Court swearing-in ceremony
Lord Justice Leggatt joins top bench amid pandemic lockdown
Oxbridge YouTube sensation explains why he switched from psychology to law
Ibz Mo takes hit vlog to law school
SRA’s go-to law firm won’t be punished over handling of missing briefcase incident
Junior lawyer Claire Louise Matthews struck off earlier this month
Gateley furloughs trainee solicitors
Some rookies may also have qualification dates pushed back in response to pandemic
Barristers lose it over Quiz courtroom blunders
'Was that a gavel I just heard?'
Home-working judge appears topless on Zoom
Easily done
Solicitors’ charity launches £1 million coronavirus hardship fund
SBA to help lawyers in serious financial difficulty
No plans to delay SQE because of Covid-19, says regulator
SRA responds to Durham Law School chief’s call for super-exam to be postponed in light of pandemic
Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from the weekend