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10 tips for getting a training contract or pupillage

Find your unique selling point

Nov 19 2018 9:23am

Monday morning round-up

The top legal affairs news stories from the weekend

Nov 19 2018 8:02am

Supreme Court to consider government appeal in Brexit reversal case

Lord Reed, Lady Hale and Lord Hodge will form the decision panel

Nov 16 2018 1:20pm

Facebook to launch ‘Supreme Court’ to handle content take-down appeals

New quasi-judicial body up and running within a year, says Mark Zuckerberg

Nov 16 2018 11:13am

The best of the blogs

Weekly round-up of the top legal blogosphere posts

Nov 16 2018 8:55am

Blackstone QC’s sex harassment suspension BLOCKED by peers

Vote reportedly 'forced' by fellow Blackstone silk Lord Pannick

Nov 15 2018 5:50pm

The best chambers for quality of work for juniors 2018-19

The new Legal Cheek Junior Barrister Survey results — analysed

Nov 15 2018 10:30am

Kirkland & Ellis launches concierge service to help its busy junior lawyers with personal ‘to-do lists’

One associate has already used the mega-perk to help her move house

Nov 15 2018 8:50am

Final legal advice on Brexit to be disclosed to MPs

'Legal professional privilege' gets rare airtime in Commons

Nov 14 2018 2:30pm

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

Nov 14 2018 7:31am

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

Nov 13 2018 3:34pm

Court of Appeal to be live-streamed for the first time this week

Pilot case concerns West Ham United

Nov 13 2018 12:21pm

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

Nov 13 2018 11:23am

Bar Council launches support hotline for stressed barristers

New wellbeing initiative also includes self-help programmes, fact sheets and videos

Nov 13 2018 10:38am

Blackstone Chambers QC faces House of Lords suspension over sexual harassment claims

Lord Lester described the allegations as 'completely untrue'

Nov 13 2018 8:48am

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

Nov 12 2018 3:20pm