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Cherie Booth QC: Lord Denning once told me ‘the bar really isn’t the place for women’
The comment came during her call ceremony

London law firm partner fined £45,000 in case with link to Panama Papers leak
Child & Child lawyer breached anti-money laundering rules, according to disciplinary finding

Magic circle law firm launches cannabis newsletter
Allen & Overy eyes up legal weed deals

YouTube superstar documents life on the LPC in latest law vlog
Future magic circle lawyer now has over 100k subscribers

Law student’s impromptu airport dance video racks up 8.7 million views
Her cat also makes an appearance

Human rights barrister’s tweet flagging Corbyn ECHR clanger goes viral
European Court of Human Rights is 'in part an EU institution', according to Labour leader

Lord Sales sworn in as newest Supreme Court judge
Oxbridge double grad will take part in a special ceremony later today
Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from the weekend

Two US law firm events next week — one for students, one for junior lawyers
Lawyers from Shearman & Sterling, Kirkland & Ellis, Skadden and Quinn Emanuel take centre stage at London events

‘Lord Harley’ appears in court to face charges of benefit fraud
He denies wrongdoing

Inner Temple pushes ahead with multi-million pound redevelopment project
Inn appoints Sir Robert McAlpine to oversee construction of new education and training centre

Courtroom to catwalk? Lady Hale appears in Vogue magazine to mark 100 years of women in law
Supreme Court president humbled by role model status

The best law firms for quality of work — 2019 edition
Even with better tech there'll always be mindless trainee tasks, but at some firms much fewer than others

The best of the blogs
Weekly round-up of the top legal blogosphere posts
Don’t feel obliged to respond to emails after 7pm, bar chief tells barristers
Richard Atkins QC says '24/7 365 days a year culture' is damaging lawyer wellbeing

Family law barrister, 34, who completed BPTC in 2007 becomes district judge
Adem Muzaffer will take up the role later this month

Oxford University students launch petition calling for top law professor’s removal over alleged homophobia
Legal Twitterati condemns 'snowflake students'

Ex-army MP calls Leigh Day chief ‘dishonest’, claiming he has ‘completely destroyed’ lives of British soldiers
Tense committee session pits Iraq torture lawyer against parliamentarians

Lady Hale attacks government ‘austerity’ policies
Supreme Court president in unusual political intervention

A quarter of trainee solicitors paid below Law Society recommended minimum
New figures show improvement in number of firms heeding Chancery Lane guidance