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The 2019 Chambers Most List goes live
Expanded careers guide now feature 50 sets — each with a Legal Cheek View and Insider Scorecard rankings

Ashurst keeps 19 out of 21 qualifying trainees
Autumn retention score of 90%

Lawyers discuss stolen ruby slippers, Van Gogh and Boy George’s Christian icon as IBA Conference kicks off in Rome
Six thousand descend on Italian capital for week-long law 'mingle-athon'

Transgender lawyer sues Father Ted creator for allegedly publishing tweets containing her former male name
It is understood to be UK’s first 'deadnaming' case

Legal Entrepreneurs Podcast: From Linklaters lawyer to CrowdJustice pioneer
Julia Salasky talks law and business
Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from the weekend

SRA awarded £700,000 to fund ‘robolawyer’ projects
Taxpayers' cash will help support AI innovations within the legal services sector

UCL law lecturer shocks freshers with his ‘really bad’ first ever essay
They gave it a borderline 2:2/third

Free Representation Unit teams up with The Secret Barrister in new CrowdJustice appeal
Blogging heavyweight becomes legal charity's first anonymous patron

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner gives law students a taste of trainee life with virtual reality goggles
It's not the first time a City law firm has embraced headset-style tech

The best of the blogs
Weekly round-up of the top legal blogosphere posts

Barrister used driving licence to eat pasta lunch after court security confiscated his fork
'What a forkin nuisance!'

Should I do an LLM and sit the SQE — or do the LPC while I still can?
I want to become a City lawyer

Baker McKenzie’s lawyers and trainees can now wear jeans
But global giant’s recently relaxed dress code policy does not extend to leggings, flip-flops or trainers

BBC to broadcast lectures on law and politics by Lord Sumption
Outspoken Supreme Court justice will be the 2019 Reith Lecturer

Linklaters bumps junior lawyer base rate pay to £83,000
Magic circle titan's rookies also handed rises

Tory conference: Attorney General steals limelight from Theresa May’s speech
Geoffrey Cox's warm-up act references his legal negotiating skills

Lawyer bloggers given access to family courts in bid to combat ‘racy’ press coverage
Pilot scheme will run until June next year

Law student dresses up as Spider-Man to accept his degree
Grad says superhero stunt was to show that not all aspiring lawyers are ‘square’

Weil Gotshal boosts newly qualified solicitor pay to £120,000
As it ups LPC maintenance grant by 25%