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The 20 most influential aspiring lawyers in Britain

Legal Cheek reveals the biggest names on campus law faculties

May 12 2016 9:32am

BPTC satisfaction survey results: student happiness surprisingly unrelated to chances of pupillage success

Bar course experience better in the regions -- even if life afterwards often isn't

May 12 2016 9:06am

Morning round-up: Thursday 12 May

The morning’s top legal affairs news stories

May 12 2016 8:22am

Courtroom ‘selfie’ taker who uploaded group snap on Facebook slapped with £190 fine

The illegal photograph also captured the magistrates' legal adviser in the background

May 11 2016 1:55pm

Can you make it to the magic circle without a Russell Group degree?

And even if you do, will your partnership prospects be damaged?

May 11 2016 12:57pm

Flexi-working latest: Macfarlanes, Freshfields and White & Case join the ‘home-desking’ movement

But is the hot City trend of "agile working" simply a token gesture?

May 11 2016 11:35am

Morning round-up: Wednesday 11 May

The morning’s top legal affairs news stories

May 11 2016 8:03am

Mayoral Result: Lawyers 1; Old Etonians 0

Sadiq Khan nicks a goal back for the profession in centuries old battle with the privileged as to who should run country

May 10 2016 2:27pm

‘Delicate Oxford flower’ takes down top criminal barrister

Second year Oxford University law student details flaws in 30 years and counting barrister’s argument and signs off with a kiss

May 10 2016 12:38pm

All five magic circle law firms named in new ‘Panama Papers’ database

Top City firms named as a result of Mossack Fonseca leak and further investigations by press

May 10 2016 10:23am

GDL satisfaction survey results: Nottingham and City beat ULaw and BPP

Graduate Diploma in Law students are actually reasonably happy

May 10 2016 9:28am

Morning round-up: Tuesday 10 May

The morning’s top legal affairs news stories

May 10 2016 8:01am

We should dance ‘crotch to crotch’: UKIP barrister fined £1,800 for inappropriate behaviour towards THREE women at chambers summer party

Ex-Zenith Chambers barrister poked one female in the breast area of her chest and attempted to kiss another

May 9 2016 12:55pm

Junior barrister who admitted supplying drugs that killed teenage boyfriend sentenced to 140 hours unpaid work

Strand Chambers’ Henry Hendron avoids jail but uncertainty surrounds his future legal career

May 9 2016 11:30am

DWF launches apprenticeship that stops at paralegal level

Unlike some other law firm school-leaver schemes, course will not extend to qualification as a solicitor

May 9 2016 9:03am

Gove’s Bill of Rights is basically the same as the Human Rights Act, groans House of Lords

Government should shelve grand but pointless nationalist gesture

May 9 2016 7:55am

Morning round-up: Monday 9 May

The morning’s top legal affairs news stories

May 9 2016 7:44am