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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
Morning round-up: Wednesday 4 April
The morning's top legal affairs news stories
Lady Hale will appear on MasterChef this week
From judging cases to judging cooking
Transatlantic tie-up: Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner goes live
New outfit led by female duo
SRA will not relax its rules for students caught up in university strikes
As students fight for compensation over lost lectures
‘Her credentials speak for themselves’: CPS chief Alison Saunders to join Linklaters
Magic circle bound after controversial five-year tenure
‘I have two law degrees, now I sell juice made from wonky fruit for a living’
Maciek Kacprzyk on why he made the move from law to sustainable food production
Morning round-up: Tuesday 3 April
The morning's top legal affairs news stories
‘The system is desperate, as are we’: Criminal barristers to REFUSE new work in protest to legal aid cuts
Decision taken with ‘heavy hearts’
The partner problem means law firm gender pay gap stats are pretty useless
A clutter of results impossible to compare
Insta-ban? Don’t post photos of yourself in ‘casual settings’, judges told
Also warned not to reveal holiday plans