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Norton Rose Fulbright posts 95% spring retention score
Global firm keeps 19 out of 20 qualifying trainees

Dechert lawyers embrace denim with new relaxed dress code
Dress-down everyday
Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from the weekend

Drug suspension barrister goes viral after pro-Brexit rant on BBC Question Time
Warming up for return to the bar?

Firm falsely advertises services of commercial barrister jailed over £600,000 VAT fraud
Fails to mention he was stripped of QC status

Blunt to give cannabis talk to law students
Nominative determinism in action

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

Email reveals decision on Allen & Overy and O’Melveny & Myers transatlantic mega-merger due in ‘coming weeks’
US outfit suspends training contract applications

College admissions scandal: Top US law firm partner placed on leave amid claims he paid £57,000 to boost daughter’s exam score
Gordon Caplan of Willkie Farr & Gallagher charged with fraud and suspended from prestigious firm

University of London law student stabbed 23 times by ex-boyfriend completes law degree
Khadija Siddiqi is now studying the BPTC

We aren’t quite up there with Kim Kardashian, says Lord Reed on Supreme Court’s social media status
Deputy president in pop culture reference

Freshfields rounds off magic circle spring retention season with 78% score
32 out of 41 qualifying trainees stay put

Tweeting Attorney General accuses Channel 4’s Jon Snow of talking ‘bollocks’ as Brexit pressure mounts
Hardly courtroom language

Profession gears up for next week’s Legal Cheek Awards 2019
Extravaganza takes place at the City of London’s iconic Cheesegrater

A selection of Legal Cheek’s top 15 Instagram posts
30,000 followers and counting...

Peter Crisp to head up ULaw’s Hong Kong campus
Legal education heavyweight lands new gig

LinkedIn row: Former magic circle lawyer slams barrister’s TV entertainment show
Sham Uddin's videos show he has 'no regard or respect' for his own legal career, says ex-Allen & Overy solicitor Melanie Daniels

The Secret Barrister once used the words ‘squirrel sex’ to justify a poor exam result during a pupillage interview
Anonymous super-blogger drops biggest hint to true identity so far