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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

Exclusive: Tycoon tried to source City training contract for businessman’s daughter during multi-million pound property deal negotiations
Fladgate, Macfarlanes, K&L Gates among firms approached without success, according to High Court

Meet the vlogging future magic circle trainee who has racked up nearly 3 million views on YouTube
Bristol University law grad is closing in on 100,000 subscribers

All firms should publish gender pay gap data, says Law Society
Current rules only require outfits with at least 250 employees to report figures

5 ways LinkedIn can help you secure a training contract
It’s not what you know, it’s who you know
Over 70% of junior legal profession still wants to remain in the EU
Legal Cheek’s survey of over 800 law students and lawyers delivers resounding result

Nevermind lawtech, courts often don’t even have working photocopiers: Bar Council fights back against legal aid cuts
While Lord Neuberger warns UK legal system 'is in danger of falling over'
Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from the weekend

Latest Brexit challenge gets date in High Court’s diary
BUT the case has already been rejected once