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£60 million lawtech start-up closes ‘after failing to figure out how to deliver better efficiency than a traditional law firm’
Legal software specialist Atrium lays off all 100 employees
Blackstone barristers team up with education charity to create ‘Women in Law’ children’s book
Illustrated by school pupils
Meet the LinkedIn influencer and future City trainee helping students achieve training contract success
He’s racked up nearly 10,000 followers on the professional networking site
Shoosmiths faces social media backlash over International Women’s Day ‘male champions’ panel
Discussion features three men and one woman as part of 'GOOD Guys' initiative
Blackstone barrister appointed Oxford Uni college’s first female president
Dinah Rose QC lands top role at Magdalen College
Coronavirus outbreak: lawyers in Vienna and New York hospitalised
Firm staff also test positive
Linklaters introduces tech modules for trainees
Magic circler drafts in law and computer science whizzes from Swansea University
CMS launches app to track lawyers’ carbon footprints
Global firm will plant a tree for every user ??
Trowers posts 80% spring trainee retention score
8 out of 10
The websites charging barrister hopefuls as much as £200 an hour for pupillage interview advice
Exclusive: A handy leg-up for those who can afford it
Writer wonders if he should have become a corporate lawyer
Sunday Times’ Josh Glancy unsettled by wealth divide opening up between him and pals from Oxford who went into law
Barrister fails to overturn £1,000 fine for ‘racially charged’ tweet
High Court rejects argument Twitter is 'famously rude and offensive'
Baker McKenzie’s London office reopens after employee tests negative for coronavirus
Sent staff home on Thursday
Law students are ‘arrogant, narcissistic and power-hungry’, claims youth news website
The Tab takes pop at legally-minded undergrads -- and not for the first time
Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from the weekend
Extinction Rebellion: what went down at the protest outside Slaughter and May
Banners, banging drums and hazmat suits
‘Should I renege on my accepted TC offer to take one at a better firm?’
I need readers' advice
Law Society boosts recommended minimum pay for trainee solicitors by 1.9%
£22,541 in London and £19,992 elsewhere
Best of the blogs
Weekly round-up of the top legal blogosphere posts
Baker McKenzie closes London office as ‘precautionary measure’ to combat potential coronavirus case
Staff told to work from home
Court of Appeal judges pause Heathrow expansion on climate change grounds
Government must now formally reconsider third runway, this time factoring in the Paris climate agreement