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Fancy eating like a lawyer? Now you can thanks to this new charity cookbook
Nigella Lawson has ordered her copy already

Best of the blogs
Weekly round-up of the top legal blogosphere posts

BSB boosts minimum pay for pupil barristers following annual review
£18,866 in London and £16,322 elsewhere -- from 1 January 2020

Law professor who specialises in money laundering arrested for alleged money laundering
Miami Uni academic Bruce Bagley accused of helping to launder £2.3 million

Staffordshire Uni law grad representing himself persuades High Court to hear potentially historic benefits case — if he can raise the money
Michael Connor crowdfunding to keep anti-austerity case alive

General election 2019: Oxford educated ex-Slaughter and May lawyers go head-to-head in Middlesbrough
Former magic circle duo even attended the same private school

Two months into her training contract and Eve Cornwell reveals what magic circle trainee life is like
Busy rush hour commutes, free breakfast, two mobile phones and getting to grips with time recording

Why the SQE could be ‘the best thing to happen to university legal education in decades’
The head of Leicester De Montfort Law School, Professor Kevin Bampton, welcomes the scrapping of the LPC

Cardiff University law student appears on Rich Kids Go Skint
Wannabe solicitor spends up to £100 a week on Deliveroo takeaways

It’s official: cryptocurrency is property and smart contracts are binding
Legal statement aims to position UK as fintech and lawtech leader

Three judges get into drunken brawl, two end up with bullet wounds
They’d gone out for a quiet drink ahead of a judicial training day the next morning
Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from the weekend

US Supreme Court legend Ruth Bader Ginsburg now has her own Lady Hale spider pin
'Notorious RBG' thanks lawyers at 2 Bedford Row for arachnid fashion item

STEM Future Lawyers and BPP launch 2020 GDL scholarship
Applications now open for science students interested in law

7 pieces of #BoomerAdvice — law edition
'OK, Boomer' ?

Best of the blogs
Weekly round-up of the top legal blogosphere posts

Reprimand for barrister and former UKIP activist who failed to turn up at court
Richard Hendron put an 'ill-prepared second-six pupil' in his place

Will my BTEC stop me getting a training contract with a top firm?
'Any help would be appreciated'

BPP confirms new bar course will be over £5,000 cheaper than current BPTC
£13,870 in London and £12,620 elsewhere