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Social mobility initiative goes north as Bar Placement Week makes Liverpool debut
QCs of the future could come from under privileged families outside London, and the Bar Council wants to boost odds of finding them
Oxbridge students shun regional law firms
Oxford and Cambridge graduates make up less than 5% of trainees outside London
Morning round-up: Friday 19 February
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Regulation that plagued family lawyers declared ‘invalid’ by Court of Appeal
Chris Grayling's changes to rules on domestic abuse sufferers getting legal aid don't stand up to scrutiny
Criminal law syllabuses to get makeover as Supreme Court gives landmark joint enterprise judgment
Felicity Gerry QC and Adam Wagner victorious as court changes the law
Silver circle takes on the magic circle as Macfarlanes boosts junior lawyer pay to £70,000
Single-office City firm chucks an extra £5,000 at its newly qualified lawyers
Morning round-up: Thursday 18 February
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Appeal judge who was cleared of flashing on packed commuter train retires at 65
Lord Justice Richards hangs up his robes
Macfarlanes continues bumper retention season posting perfect 100% spring score
All six Macfarlanes qualifiers have committed their future to the "silver circle" outfit
Addleshaw Goddard and Maclay Murray & Spens cease merger talks
Merger mania: Olswang eyeing up Bird & Bird and Simmons & Simmons, meanwhile Berwin Leighton Paisner and Greenberg Traurig in talks
The solicitors that took their chances on publishing and cake making — without giving up their legal careers
Legal Cheek meets the lawyers that bucked the trend and started up their own businesses
Morning round-up: Wednesday 17 February
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Solicitor super-exam could ‘devalue’ and ‘dumb down’ the law
Legal establishment comes out against plan to scrap LPC and open firms to non-graduates
Impressive spring retention season continues as Osborne Clarke keeps on all its trainees
Seven out of seven March qualifiers have committed their future to the international firm
Tax City lawyers to help the legal aid crisis, says founder of top legal aid firm
Human rights solicitor defends Michael Gove's legal levy idea
1,000-year-old tradition of recording laws on goat and calf skin hangs in balance
Peers say scrap tradition in favour of £80,000 a year savings
Morning round-up: Tuesday 16 February
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
American Lord Denning found dead at luxury resort in Texas
Law students mourn loss of eccentric Supreme Court judge
Students shine at Supreme Court social mobility event — despite taking harsh criticism from Court of Appeal judge
Judges prove just how out of touch they are, again