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Lawyers are stressed — but not as much as social workers and recruiters
Increasing workloads number on stress source, research shows

Young Legal Aid Lawyers: SRA must reintroduce mandatory minimum trainee pay
Enforceable salary requirements ditched by SRA in 2014

Criminal lawyers in uproar over court IT chaos
Continuing digital outage plays havoc with justice system

Calls concerning bullying and harassment up 80%, says lawyer helpline
Majority of callers to LawCare women

US Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg lands cameo in Lego Movie 2
As morning talk show apologises for airing graphic suggesting she'd died

Linklaters releases ethnicity pay gap data
Follows Allen & Overy in publishing voluntary figures

New legislation on domestic abuse heralds family law shake-up
Ban on abusers grilling victims in court among changes

Glasgow Uni law student becomes unlikely hero after netting late winner in Scottish Cup
It's 'just beginning to sink in', says Auchinleck Talbot defender Craig McCracken

City law firms dominate LGBT top 100 employer list
Pinsent Masons came out on top
Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from the weekend

Retrial ordered in ‘Lord Harley’ fraud case following dramatic courtroom collapse
Former solicitor-advocate remains in hospital

Hero barrister recalls moment he pulled Prince Philip from 4×4 wreckage after T-junction smash
'I looked down and had the Prince’s blood on my hands’

The chambers with the most supportive barristers — 2019 edition
The new Legal Cheek Junior Barrister Survey results — analysed

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

Law second most popular degree choice after psychology, data reveals
As lecturers call for UCAS deadline application overhaul

Junior lawyers ‘endangered species’ due to automation, law prof claims
Rookies carrying out repetitive work face being 'gradually culled from firms'

Top QC teams up with rookie barrister to launch ‘how-to-get-pupillage’ blog
Refreshingly honest guide goes live

US law firm Crowell & Moring reveals London training contract ambitions
Hopes to take on first UK trainees from September 2021