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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
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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
Morning round-up: Friday 18 March
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How do you play a networking event?
The debatable usefulness of small talk over a glass of wine
Exclusive legal profession poll: 75% want to stay in EU
Survey of 1,000 lawyers and law students shows massive opposition to Brexit
Apprentices set to go head-to-head with first year law students for top solicitor jobs
LLBers, beware of hotshot school-leavers with much more experience than you
Morning round-up: Thursday 17 March
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Lawyers’ professional privilege under threat from Snoopers’ Charter
And Theresa May fails to reassure the legal profession
Clifford Chance reveals lowest trainee retention rate of the magic circle
Spring figure doesn’t come close to dizzying autumn heights
Trump turnaround on legal fees pledge
The Donald proves as contradictory as ever
Morning round-up: Wednesday 16 March
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