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Law grad-backed Oxford University a cappella group jet to the US to shoot new Justin Timberlake cover track
The musical troupe includes a future Clifford Chance trainee
Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from the weekend

What commercial awareness is and what it should not be
Legal commentator and solicitor David Allen Green considers what this law firm buzzword actually means

Top QC ditches curvy blond
One Crown Office Row's Marina Wheeler QC and Boris Johnson confirm divorce

Norton Rose Fulbright unveils 90% autumn retention score
Global giant retains 28 out of 31 rookies

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

Allen & Overy releases partner gender pay gap data following criticism from MPs
Magic circle outfit publishes 2018 and 2017 results

Allen & Overy and O’Melveny & Myers chiefs meet at Frankfurt hotel as mega-merger talks continue
Two months after representatives from both firms met in London

LawCatz: New TV chat show aims to demystify the legal world with the help of lawyers
Pilot to air on Sky next month, according to programme’s creator

Linklaters rounds off magic circle autumn retention season with 73% score
Global titan keeps 43 out of 59 qualifying trainees

Three-quarters of new deputy High Court judges attended Oxbridge
And over 70% are men

I was rejected for a training contract by my ‘dream’ US firm — should I reapply?
I reached the final interview stage

Mayer Brown boosts junior lawyer pay to £78,000
Trainee salaries and LPC maintenance grant also up

Junior lawyer leaves Slaughter and May after signing for Juventus
And lands sports writing gig with a national newspaper

Sidley Austin tops market by hiking LPC maintenance grant to £11,000
An uplift of nearly 60%

ULaw appoints ex-Supreme Court president Lord Neuberger as chancellor
He stepped down from the UK's top bench last year

Huddersfield law student aspires to be first Miss England to wear hijab
She follows a long line of legally-minded beauty queens

You can now teach your children the ABCs of law
From A is for attorney to Z is for zealous advocacy
Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from the weekend

Herbert Smith Freehills and Charles Russell Speechlys post autumn trainee retention scores
Results of 82% and 88%