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Top EU law chambers ups pupillage award to £65,000 as Brexit vote looms
Monckton Chambers chucks an extra £5,000 at its junior legal talent
Morning round-up: Wednesday 23 March
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
New Zealand courts thrown into disarray as a third of country’s top judges fall ill during luxury château break
Gastro bug sweeps through Kiwi judiciary
The legal sector boom: Lawyers responsible for 8,000 additional jobs
But what are they, exactly?
Commemorative toilet roll tells of female struggle to enter legal profession due to lack of toilet facilities
And you can own one for just £100...
Team of four students from UCL, LSE, Leicester and Portsmouth crowned the most commercially aware wannabe lawyers in Britain
Quartet snatch win in prestigious competition
Aberdeen University law student found dead in her halls
The police are not treating her death as suspicious
Morning round-up: Tuesday 22 March
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
15 tweets Lord Denning would have made had he been on Twitter
We bet the king of dissents would've been big on hashtags
Simmons & Simmons keeps seven out of nine new qualifiers
Firm declines to comment on how many trainees started this round's qualification process
Sheffield bids to wrestle corporate law northshoring crown from Manchester
Council big wigs offer cash incentives to get a piece of the outsourcing action
Supreme Court shatters law geeks’ wedding dreams
Highest court in the land opens its doors to private hire events -- but has no licence for couples to tie the knot
Junior criminal lawyer pleads GUILTY to conspiracy to supply cocaine
Barrister turned solicitor Omar Khan was charged in December 2015 and spent Christmas behind bars
Coders create new portal for law centre in pro bono hackathon
System could boost efficiency in delivery of free advice
Judges’ Crown Court sentencing remarks to be filmed for first time
Pilot could see parts of high profile trials shown live on TV
Morning round-up: Monday 21 March
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Top lawyers draw upon ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ to give students careers advice
It seems the inspirational drag queen has some tips for budding solicitors and barristers
‘Law student’ who claimed to be at BPP pleads guilty to Christmas Eve murder
Carl Langdell said he was doing GDL at BPP, but law school denies all knowledge of him
Freshfields posts 82% trainee retention rate rounding off mixed bag for magic circle
Elsewhere in the City, Reed Smith posts disappointing 58% result while Weil Gotshal & Manges scores perfect 100%
First ever City law firm business school trains up 250 junior lawyers to advise start-ups
Programme is part of wider corporate law drive to up-skill trainees
What’s next for the UK’s most followed law student?
Energy law dreams vie for attention with Instagram career