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Morning round-up: Tuesday 10 April
The morning's top legal affairs news stories

PwC, Neota Logic and Institute of Student Employers among latest speakers at the Future of Legal Education and Training Conference
Today's speaker announcement coincides with 'two for £400' Conference offer -- open for limited time only

Aspiring barrister petitions for ‘draconian’ BPTC exams to be open-book
Online appeal also argues assessments shouldn't be so close together

Student pro bono: New projects on autism, family courts and miscarriages of justice up for awards
Birmingham University storms shortlists with nominations in most categories
Morning round-up: Monday 9 April
The morning's top legal affairs news stories
Allen & Overy in merger talks with US giant O’Melveny & Myers to create transatlantic magic circle megafirm
Deal would be a legal market game-changer -- if it happens

Hogan Lovells bumps LPC grant by 43% to £10,000
Matching moves by the magic circle and Herbert Smith Freehills

Dentons targets spacetech sector with new innovation hub
To boldly go where no law firm has gone before?

Lady Hale was on MasterChef last night
Supreme Court president sampled fish dishes alongside space scientists and women's rights campaigners

‘Skinny ties are for Hoxton bars’: We review the former BLP trainee’s fashion advice so controversial the firm banned it
Katherine Cousins, now an associate, turned her tips into a book

Morning round-up: Friday 6 April
The morning's top legal affairs news stories

Clifford Chance launches ‘Tech Academy’ to help lawyers get to grips with coding
AI, blockchain and cybersecurity lessons also on the menu

Herbert Smith Freehills becomes latest firm to boost LPC grant to £10,000
Global law firm matches five-figure sum awarded by magic circle outfits

Junior criminal barrister, 32, now youngest Crown Court judge in recent history
Rise of the baby-faced bench, as 34-year-old appointed as a district judge

Allen & Overy launches South London flexible working hub
Vauxhall satellite office will ‘significantly’ cut commuting time

You can now Skype a Supreme Court justice
Lady Hale says she's looking forward to chatting to students in new outreach programme

Morning round-up: Thursday 5 April
The morning's top legal affairs news stories

Deadline for gender pay gap reporting is today — here’s how law firms have done
The outfits with the biggest (and smallest) pay gaps in the City

Beano sends spoof cease and desist letter to Jacob Rees-Mogg
It orders MP to stop ‘masquerading’ as one its cartoon characters

Trump-Russia probe: Former City lawyer jailed for 30 days
Ex-Skadden associate admitted misleading FBI investigators

This Westminster law student has THREE MILLION Instagram followers
Most followed law student in the country to forsake full-time modelling career for legal academia