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Ex-Magic Circle lawyer reaches Miss England final
Property specialist Alice Cutler will compete this May

BSB proposes eliminating degree requirement for barristers
Cites possible equality benefits

Regulator takes action against ex-Dentons lawyer for sexual misconduct
Quit before disciplinary meeting could take place

Huge disparity in LPC provider pass rates as SQE was introduced
Between 100% and 21%

Clyde & Co fined £500k for anti-money laundering failures
Former partner also sanctioned

A&O Shearman sets out City office plans
Merger gathers pace

Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the weekend

Slaughters gets tough on desk ditchers with office entry monitoring
Data shared with management

Best of the blogs
Weekly round-up of the top legal blogosphere posts

Weil bumps newly qualified lawyer salaries to £170k
Latest City rise

Mishcon acquires flexi-lawyer business
London firm moves into alternative legal services market

Bar Council chair urges party leaders to commit funding for 100 extra criminal pupillages
‘Eye-catching manifesto’

Post Office scandal: SRA unlikely to expedite lawyer prosecutions
Likely wait until inquiry's conclusion

City solicitor fined £10k for holding out to be sole practitioner
Motivated by compassion

SRA recruits more staff to handle Axiom Ince fallout
Deal with compensation claims

US firms dominate M&A work as deals slump to decade low
Tech suffers particularly badly

Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the weekend

SRA fines law firm for failing to provide diversity data
First of its kind