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Ex-Fieldfisher IT worker banned from profession after sexually assaulting paralegal at Christmas party
City computer whizz was handed 12-month prison term last year
Can you start a training contract without having completed the LPC?
We asked the Solicitors Regulation Authority for its advice on this little-known route to qualification
#TheAccused: Sympathy runs dry for defendant at centre of new crime documentary
‘Sob stories worse than the X Factor’
Why it’s time to rename and reclaim ‘revenge porn’
We speak to the lawyers behind the third-wave feminist movement
Morning round-up: Tuesday 1 August
The morning's top legal affairs news stories
Who will replace Lady Hale as deputy Supreme Court president?
Place your bets
Keele University’s law society in training contract gavel clanger
Hysteria sets in on application deadline day?
Reed Smith keeps 12 out of 14 qualifying trainees, including King & Wood Mallesons’ survivor
Firm also reveals its training contract applications have almost doubled
Is ‘Doxbridge’ a thing?
Supreme Court now has more Durham grads than any other non-Oxbridge uni
Morning round-up: Monday 31 July
The morning's top legal affairs news stories
Herbert Smith Freehills retains 80% of its autumn NQs
As national outfit Mills & Reeve posts 79% result
Lords Neuberger and Clarke leave Supreme Court bench, but not before colleagues tell funny stories about them
The court's TripAdvisor rating, The Beatles and Legal Cheek all name checked in today's valedictory ceremony
I got a 2:2 in drama — does it even matter how well I do in my GDL and BPTC?
I’m expecting a distinction
EU academic uses abuse he’s been sent by Brexit campaigners in new book intro
Michael Dougan called an ‘IRA c*nt’ and told to ‘die painfully of cancer’
Morning round-up: Friday 28 July
The morning's top legal affairs news stories
Kirkland & Ellis reveals 56% NQ retention result
Top paying global mega-firm sees autumn rate drop sharply
Southampton law student imprisoned for manslaughter APPEALS conviction and sentence
He was given six years for killing a father-of-ten on Valentine’s Day
Grenfell Tower fire: Diane Abbott claims survivors are being harassed by ‘ambulance chasing’ lawyers
MP complains to profession bigwigs
Mishcon de Reya’s autumn retention figure slumps to 64%
As Stephenson Harwood keeps 90% of its NQs
Donna-hue v Stevenson? Woman called Donna finds dead lizard in her beer bottle
A modern take on the tort law classic