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Revealed: The best barristers’ chambers for training
The results of the Legal Cheek Pupil and Junior Barrister Survey are in

LSE law graduate pulls punches with fitness business staffed by ex-prisoners
Tough workouts with social justice at their heart
Morning round-up: Tuesday 23 January
The morning's top legal affairs news stories

Final year becomes third Bristol law student in 14 months to die in suspected suicide
University encourages students and staff affected by news to contact support services

Twitter explodes with inspirational #mypathtolaw stories
And some that aren't so inspirational

Ex-Supreme Court president Lord Neuberger is touring non-Russell Group universities and state schools with a future CMS trainee
Exclusive: Pair seek to do good with their unlikely friendship
Morning round-up: Monday 22 January
The morning's top legal affairs news stories

Clifford Chance keeps 44 of its 48 spring NQs
As Trowers & Hamlins confirms six of its seven rookies are staying put

Dentons partner suspended following allegations of sexual misconduct
Claims date back to solicitor's time at Scottish outfit Maclay Murray & Spens

QC launches scathing attack on Judge Rinder for ‘denigrating the law’
But many silks disagree

‘I’m a future magic circle trainee, yet I’ll be living in an Airbnb during my LPC because I can’t afford London rent’
One Legal Cheek commenter shares their take on law firm maintenance grants

London barristers more than twice as likely to secure silk than Northern peers
Top QC concerned there may be a pattern of under-representation
Morning round-up: Friday 19 January
The morning's top legal affairs news stories

Taylor Wessing lawyer who rowed Atlantic in memory of his mother breaks world record
The emotional story behind senior associate George Biggar’s transatlantic feat

Over a third of trainee solicitors are being paid LESS than Law Society minimum wage
Law Society tells Legal Cheek salary recommendation is under review

Lady Hale among judicial celebs to watch new Lord Chancellor sworn in
We learnt he once spent a night in a prison cell

The law firms that give their trainees the most interesting work – 2018 edition
There's more to early stage legal practice than document review
Morning round-up: Thursday 18 January
The morning's top legal affairs news stories

Solicitor super-exam proposals submitted for formal approval
Regulator’s plan to scrap GDL and LPC moves one step closer to reality

London law student handed suspended sentence over part in £750,000 fraud
‘Severe question mark’ over her legal career