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Research: top students from disadvantaged backgrounds less likely to apply for elite training contracts
'Contextual recruitment' needed to stop the privileged bagging all the jobs, says agency which developed method
Legal academic granted permission to judicially review cancellation of controversial Southampton Law School conference
Exclusive: Freedom of speech row over cancelled "anti-Semitic" event to hit the courts
Shearman & Sterling considers work from home option for its London lawyers
Now US firms are eyeing 'agile working'
Law students sent us some hilarious Snapchats
Sometimes for law students wine is the only answer
Morning round-up: Tuesday 12 April
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Panama Papers law firm gets unofficial clothing range
“Because taxes are for poor people”
Medical negligence solicitor’s angry speech to junior doctors goes viral
“The government has declared war on the people in this country," roars Simpson Millar's Peter Stefanovic
Revealed: the universities which give you the best chance of making it to the top of the magic and silver circle
Oxbridge dominates, but there are some surprises
Official Solicitor to the Senior Courts appears as litigant-in-person in private dispute
Exclusive: Alastair Pitblado and his fiancée in High Court today -- acting for themselves in £150k planning row
Morning round-up: Monday 11 April
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Half of Allen & Overy’s new London partners are women
Internationally the figure is 29%, as firm homes in on rather low gender diversity target
Scammers clone Burges Salmon’s website to create fake law firm
Maybe avoid applying for a training contract with 'Owen & Harvey Solicitors'
11 ways in which the teachings of Donald Trump can guide lawyers to success
Reinterpreting the preposterous Art of the Deal
Morning round-up: Friday 8 April
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Man behind criminal law syllabus shake up to face retrial for murder
An appeal by Ameen Jogee saw the law on joint enterprise drastically changed, but his fate still hangs in the balance
Ashurst keeps 15 out of 19 qualifying trainees
79% of rookies stay with firm
Cambridge PhD law student who spends spare time dressing up as the Insect Overlord coming to a chambers near you
When studying law all gets too much…
Morning round-up: Thursday 7 April
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories