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Morning round-up: Friday 15 January
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Man banned for life from going within four metres of a bike rack in legal first
Criminal Behaviour Orders inject scope for creativity in judges' sentencing
Money talks: Weil Gotshal continues 100% trainee retention after cash boost
Did the recent NQ pay rise to £100k sway their decision?
Durham student rape acquittal sparks talk of criminal law reform
Should we bring back anonymity for accused rapists?
Law student in five-year legal battle to use penis drawing as official signature
He has faced stiff opposition
DLA Piper associate offers training contract ‘coaching’ and ‘guidance’ at £40 an hour
Edinburgh based lawyer and former White & Case trainee sells application advice online
Morning round-up: Thursday 14 January
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Nosy bosses CANNOT read your private WhatsApp conversations due to ECHR ruling
Reporters can't resist getting a human rights story wrong
Lord Chief Justice says judges are feeling stressed out at work
Even judges aren’t immune from the stresses and strains of the working world
Top judge calls for lawyerless courts
Bad news for law students
Hilarious parody video mocks privileged white law graduate
Short comical clip mimics a recent Western Sydney University ad involving Sudanese refugee law graduate
The solicitors who quit the City to work in sexy areas of law
Get a TC, get some money and then get out to do crime and media work
Morning round-up: Wednesday 13 January
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
‘I’m a disillusioned science PhD: should I do the GDL?’
Career salvation as a lawyer, potentially...
Trowers & Hamlins improves on poor autumn trainee retention performance
Period of unpredictable retention rates continues for national firm as it posts an 88% spring 2016 result
Co-op training contract freeze continues despite expansion
Hype of "100 training contracts a year by 2017" a distant memory
Top criminal chambers boosts pupillage award from £16k to £40k
London set bucks downward pay trend
Morning round-up: Tuesday 12 January
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
David Bowie used to be a paralegal based near Lincoln’s Inn
British music legend sadly passed away yesterday after 18-month battle with cancer
Daily Mail hate against lawyers reaches unprecedented levels
National newspaper enraged by solicitors “hounding” of British troops
Labour’s top lawyer quits citing ‘increasingly negative path’ under Jeremy Corbyn
Shadow attorney general Catherine McKinnell has resigned -- Karl Turner replaces her