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How do I fund my Oxbridge law dream?
Any advice is greatly appreciated

Meet the law grad Instagram star who looks just like Ryan Gosling
Who needs a training contract when you have a face like a Hollywood superstar

Hogan Lovells partner ordered to pay £18,000 after sacking pregnant nanny
Employment tribunal judge finds City lawyer's nanny was unfairly dismissed

Eversheds Sutherland bumps London NQ lawyer pay to £72,000
Trainees also handed pay boosts

Supreme Court gets first ever female majority
Two male and three female justices will hear a case next month in gender equality milestone

8 things all non-law students should be doing if they want to become lawyers
Imperial biology undergrad Maddy Ebbrell shares her hints and tips
Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from the weekend

Mark Wahlberg’s routine: the law student version
9:30am -- miss land law lecture

Top criminal QC: ‘Let’s give disadvantaged kids role models beyond pop stars and YouTubers’
Chris Daw QC’s social mobility film featured on BBC1’s The One Show goes viral among profession

How Lehman Brothers’ collapse paved the way for MoneyLaw and the minimum wage
2008 financial crisis shaped the legal profession as we know it

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

Clyde & Co bumps trainee and junior lawyer pay as it confirms autumn retention score of 83%
One NQ is on a fixed term deal

5 Essex Court launches first junior barrister-run Instagram account
London chambers hopes to demystify the profession

Bircham Dyson Bell and Pitmans to vote on £50 million tie-up
Firms reveal 'exploratory merger discussions'

Solicitor fined £2,000 after being caught drink-driving THREE TIMES in just one month
Regulator tipped off about convictions by two members of the public

Open University law student fails in bid to sue six classmates over ‘defamatory’ forum comments
Samantha Exley handed £8,000 costs bill

Law grad who hopes to become ‘first Romani female barrister in England’ launches crowdfunding appeal to help cover BPTC fees
Brigitta Balogh is looking to raise £1,800 to cover registration costs

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner posts 79% autumn retention score
Recently-merged global player retains 15 of its 19 rookies

Kim Kardashian is a law student, says Kanye West
But reality star’s representatives have since clarified that she isn't actually in law school

Squire Patton Boggs leisurewear is an actual thing
You can also purchase footballs, tote bags and 100 meters of the international outfit's personalised satin ribbon

Mid-size money movers: Forsters, Trowers & Hamlins, Withers and Farrer & Co up junior lawyer pay
Some trainees also awarded modest salary boosts