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Bad news for paralegals: High Court says predictive coding can be used for document review
Artificial intelligence-based technique given green light
Judge fired for watching porn at work claims disability discrimination in employment tribunal battle
Warren Grant says he was unfairly sacked
Top Manchester QC questions Andy Burnham’s claim that it’s harder for northerners to become lawyers
It's grim up north for law students, indicates Manchester mayoral hopeful
History to be made as gay judge looks set to swipe Lord Denning’s old job title
Sir Terence Etherton would be the first openly gay Master of the Rolls
LSE law professor’s joy as ‘Silicon Valley’ themed exam question goes viral in the US
Fans of hit American TV show go crazy over English IT law problem
Major EU overhaul on smoking laws comes into force today
Say goodbye to 10 packs and menthols
Morning round-up: Friday 20 May
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Today’s controversial Supreme Court decision is tomorrow’s media law module
As lawyers scramble to offer insight into top court’s celebrity injunction decision, students brace themselves for new media law lecture content
10 City lawyers named in ‘Power 100 Women’ list
List celebrates Square Mile's most influential women
York Uni law students’ letter of protest at EU referendum exam question
Over 100 sign an open letter of complaint arguing referendum isn’t on the syllabus
Judicial chill out lounges are the future says law reform group
Judges' private chambers could make way for "judicial hubs"
BPP law students help tackle rogue landlords with launch of free advice clinic
New pro bono scheme will assist those facing a number of residential property legal issues including unfair rent increases
Morning round-up: Thursday 19 May
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Mr Justice Peter Smith is BARRED from hearing Addleshaw Goddard cases
The battle continues as list of firms and lawyers over whom he can no longer adjudicate grows and grows
Lawyers try their hand at law-themed poetry, with hilarious results
#barristerpoetry brings light-hearted fun to steely profession
University of East Anglia law students advised to mime throwing graduation hats in the air in move branded as ‘ridiculous’ by personal injury lawyers
Mortar boards are the new mortar bombs
Boris Johnson’s barrister wife is NOT the Waterloo sex QC
Says “a pal of Boris”
Mr Justice Peter Smith v Blackstone — ‘shocking and indefensible’ letter annotated
Legal Cheek reads between the lines to try and discern what the combative Judge was really trying to say in trenchant missive
City law firm brings in emotional intelligence training to ward off threat from robots
EQ to trump IQ in age of AI
Morning round-up: Wednesday 18 May
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
‘More still needs to be done’ says regulator as latest stats reveal almost a QUARTER of lawyers attended fee paying schools
This rises to 37% for partners in large law firms