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First ever law scholarship for STEM students unveiled
STEM Future Lawyers joins forces with BPP University Law School to launch GDL scholarship for science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) students
Junior solicitor whose hair fell out as she struggled to meet billing targets struck off after successful SRA appeal
Sovani James handed two-year ban earlier this year for faking documents
Court of Appeal to be live-streamed for the first time this week
Pilot case concerns West Ham United
Sidley Austin lawyer’s widow reveals how work pressures pushed her husband to suicide in heartbreaking open letter
Gabe MacConaill committed suicide in the carpark of the firm's Los Angeles office last month
Bar Council launches support hotline for stressed barristers
New wellbeing initiative also includes self-help programmes, fact sheets and videos
Blackstone Chambers QC faces House of Lords suspension over sexual harassment claims
Lord Lester described the allegations as 'completely untrue'
Whistleblowing judge launches crowdfunding appeal to take workers’ rights ruling to Supreme Court
Judiciary should be afforded the same legal protections as workers when making public interest disclosures, says Claire Gilham
Vlogging sensation reveals how she secured a magic circle training contract
University of Bristol law grad Eve Cornwell shares her top tips
New blog post documents incredible lives of first female barristers
Chronicles their lasting legacies
SRA launches Facebook page to help demystify solicitor super-exam
Regulator revealed last week SQE could cost up to £4,500
Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from the weekend
Revealed: the law firms with the nicest partners in Britain 2018-19
The new Legal Cheek Trainee and Junior Lawyer Survey results -- analysed
Ofsted criticises BPP’s apprenticeship programme
Education giant hits back; says systems for tracking legal apprentices are 'robust'
The best of the blogs
Weekly round-up of the top legal blogosphere posts
Legal Entrepreneurs: How a Schillings trainee made it to The Independent — and then quit to start his own media law firm
Reviewed & Cleared CEO David Burgess shares what led him to leave his high-flying job and run a business
Jet flop! Law grad fired from The Apprentice after disastrous airline advertising task
Kurran Poon becomes the sixth candidate to leave the boardroom empty handed
Afghan-born junior barrister asked to return case after client requested ‘a white male’
'This was an unexpected and upsetting event', says Rehana Popal
New solicitor super-exam ‘likely’ to cost between £3,000 – £4,500
But SRA delays implementation date until September 2021, one year later than previously proposed
Ex-Daily Mail editor defends newspaper’s decision to describe judges as ‘enemies of the people’
'The point needed to be made', says Paul Dacre
SRA director of policy and education to leave ahead of super-exam roll out
Crispin Passmore to go at the end of the year, regulator confirms