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Morning round-up: Friday 3 February
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Kirkland & Ellis introduces salary cap after currency fluctuations saw London NQ dollar-pegged pay packets swell to over £140,000
Brexit and Trump makes for a volatile exchange rate
Solicitor of the Year turned ‘army ambulance chaser’ is struck off
The ultimate fall from grace
Mayer Brown to re-launch ‘articled route to qualification’ as solicitor apprenticeship
Global firm tweaks school-leaver programme to fit government scheme
We spoke to Baroness Helena Kennedy QC about Brexit
She chairs the House of Lords’ EU Justice committee, and she thinks we’re living through “an ugly period”
Why de-stigmatising anxiety and doubt at law school will make for less stressed-out lawyers
Nipping it in the bud early is the answer, says LSE LLB-er Josh Dowson
Morning round-up: Thursday 2 February
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
When lawyers divorce: Court of Appeal sides with Cambridge law lecturer over her City solicitor ex-husband
She earns £53,000, so should he still have to pay maintenance?
Eversheds Sutherland: Merger creating new £600m transatlantic law firm goes live
*New law firm merch alert*
‘UK’s top barrister’ fined by Bar Standards Board over website boasts
But legendary topcriminalqc.co.uk site lives on
Trump selects Oxford educated ex-corporate lawyer who went to law school with Barack Obama as US Supreme Court nominee
And Donald did it all on primetime TV
Over 500 barristers sign open letter to BSB chairman attacking training reform proposals
Regulator's consultation into future bar training closed yesterday
Morning round-up: Wednesday 1 February
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
White & Case unveils 88% spring retention score
US titan’s London office confirms it has taken on a second KWM trainee
Crowdfunding website set up by ex-Linklaters associate launches in US to help bring legal actions against Donald Trump
CrowdJustice part-funded the Brexit judicial review, now it’s heading across the pond
Lord Harley to take strike-off decision to Court of Appeal
He's appealing on Equality Act grounds
Happy birthday to the Legal Cheek Journal!
As it celebrates turning one, we count down the ten best contributions to our legal affairs hub
Beware the bursting of law’s artificial intelligence bubble
Legal tech is a long story of incremental change, not revolution
Morning round-up: Tuesday 31 January
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Success: KWM confirms ALL current trainees have found new homes
Legal Cheek revealed rescue plan back in December