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£1m funding boost opens up Sutton Trust social mobility programme to 14 and 15 year-olds
Nearly 2000 youngsters to benefit from Pathways to Law over next four years, but no corresponding hike in number of undergrad mentors
Morning round-up: Friday 13 May
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Would you be sent home from a law firm for refusing to wear high heels?
Female lawyers’ need to look the part -- a pressure that won’t go away
Vladimir Putin is poster boy for satirical anti-UK Snoopers’ Charter campaign
Russian President is joined by political leaders including Chinese President Xi Jinping appearing to endorse controversial bill
Interview: Queen Mary students put ‘revenge porn law’ on the map
Is this new practice area about to emerge?
The 20 most influential aspiring lawyers in Britain
Legal Cheek reveals the biggest names on campus law faculties
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
Morning round-up: Thursday 12 May
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Legal Cheek spat hits the nationals as criminal barrister responds to Oxford law student who called out his ‘Twitter hate campaign’
Criminal barrister v Delicate Oxford flower: Round Two
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
Can you make it to the magic circle without a Russell Group degree?
And even if you do, will your partnership prospects be damaged?
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?
LPC satisfaction survey results: Students happiest at the smaller providers
Mood brighter outside the big two
Morning round-up: Wednesday 11 May
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
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
‘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
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
GDL satisfaction survey results: Nottingham and City beat ULaw and BPP
Graduate Diploma in Law students are actually reasonably happy
Morning round-up: Tuesday 10 May
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Cardiff first year encourages other law students to stop being boring and to go on nights out during exam period
It’s easier to pull during exam season, apparently