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Addleshaw Goddard pledges pay boost for cleaners as trade union plots protest
City outfit to ensure outsourced cleaning staff get London living wage

Super-exam pilot results: make SQE1 the theory test and leave practical skills for SQE2
Testing skills during SQE1 doesn’t really work, says examiner

Former Baker McKenzie London chief faces prosecution for alleged sexual misconduct
Regulator publishes details

Love Island 2019: Limerick law grad defies odds to be crowned winner during live final
Will this change underdog Greg’s legal career aspirations?

BPP Law School apologises after ‘technical fault’ sees LPC students receive advocacy exam materials 48 hours late
Exclusive: Aspiring lawyers left in the dark over weekend

I bought a Gucci handbag and pretended to like rugby in a bid to fit in with my magic circle peers
Career success shouldn't come at the sacrifice of being yourself, says City lawyer turned career coach Husnara Begum

‘Oh sh*t! It’s the SRA!’
A Monday funny courtesy of The Sketching Solicitor

Henry Hendron suspended again
Chemsex junior barrister failed to pay client £850

Sainsbury’s shelf-stacker turned Doughty Street barrister becomes one of Inner Temple’s youngest benchers
Amal Clooney chamber mate breaks 650-year record

Law and politics: Is the romance finally over?
Fewer MPs have a background in law
Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from the weekend

‘I am an aspiring City lawyer with undergrad offers from Cambridge and Pennsylvania’
Oxbridge or Ivy League?

Supreme Court judges get the FaceApp treatment
Mixed results

Top fintech start-up launches law training contract
Challenger bank OakNorth has recruited three trainees so far

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

Linklaters increases London GDL maintenance grant to £10,000
Matching moves by three out of five magic circle members

Boris’ cabinet cull sees barrister Buckland land Lord Chancellor role
Former justice minister replaces David Gauke, joining host of other lawyers in BoJo's cabinet

London litigation funder in training contract first
Includes City law firm secondment

Scottish judge Lord Reed to replace Hale as Supreme Court president
As country's top bench gains three new faces

Simmons & Simmons embraces NewLaw movement with ‘legal engineering’ acquisition
BigLaw continues to make big moves into the lawtech space