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Morning round-up: Monday 26 September

The morning’s top legal affairs news stories

Sep 26 2016 8:01am

Legal Cheek talks… Lord Harley and Ntokozo Qwabe

A whistle stop tour of two of our more controversial characters, and what we think about them

Sep 23 2016 4:11pm

Lawyer claims £2,375 in damages after being seated next to obese man during long-haul flight

Nine-hour Emirates flight ruined due to "spillover"

Sep 23 2016 12:25pm

Bond Dickinson cites Brexit as it ‘defers’ solicitor pay increases

Having frozen pay last month Trowers & Hamlins confirms salary reviews will now go ahead "this year"

Sep 23 2016 11:07am

Rhodes Must Fall founder and aspiring lawyer accused of ‘assaulting’ white student in law lecture

Ntokozo Qwabe denies claim, and comments on law students’ “delusional toxic superiority complex”

Sep 23 2016 10:43am

15 Legal Cheek Instagram posts all new law students will be able to relate to

One lecture in and I already want to quit

Sep 23 2016 9:12am

Morning round-up: Friday 23 September

The morning’s top legal affairs news stories

Sep 23 2016 7:56am

Kim Kardashian reveals law school hopes

News comes after reports she asked Amal Clooney for a mini-pupillage at Doughty Street Chambers

Sep 22 2016 6:12pm

U wot m8? BSB reminds newbie barristers to use correct ‘grammar, spelling and punctuation’

Regulator's revised professional statement released yesterday

Sep 22 2016 12:56pm

Baker & McKenzie retains 14 out of 16 newly qualifying solicitors

US-founded giant chalks up 88% autumn rate

Sep 22 2016 12:03pm

SDT publishes Lord Harley re-hearing decision in full

Medical evidence was “insufficiently detailed and unconvincing”

Sep 22 2016 10:44am

13 things every law student has secretly done

We know what you did last seminar

Sep 22 2016 9:07am

Morning round-up: Thursday 22 September

The morning’s top legal affairs news stories

Sep 22 2016 7:59am

Gowling WLG lifts post-Brexit vote pay freeze

International law firm suspended its annual pay review earlier this summer

Sep 21 2016 1:41pm

Research: Female solicitors are earning 20% less than their male colleagues

Latest Law Society stats suggest gender pay gap is still a problem within the profession

Sep 21 2016 10:57am

Stephenson Harwood boosts newly qualified pay packets to £65,000

An extra £500 chucked trainees' way too

Sep 21 2016 10:24am

LLB v GDL: Which one is REALLY the best?

A law degree lover and loather pitch for their course -- Dragon’s Den style

Sep 21 2016 9:17am

Morning round-up: Wednesday 21 September

The morning’s top legal affairs news stories

Sep 21 2016 7:50am

Why the new higher education bill is not the solution for improving the state of legal education

Will the negative consequences outweigh its good intentions?

Sep 20 2016 12:55pm