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‘Cambridge-educated Weil Gotshal trainee’ flogs training contract advice for £45 an hour
When you're on £97k a year, is this really necessary?
Morning round-up: Wednesday 30 September
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Lawyer falls for latest Facebook ‘legal contract’ privacy hoax
If in doubt, cite the "Rome Statute"
Lawyers back magistrate suspended for paying asylum seeker’s court charge
Axe this "laughably unfair" charge, urge members of legal profession
Lawyers’ ethics: who would you save first in a fire — your mum or girlfriend?
Chinese judicial ethics exam asks wannabe lawyers to decide
Inner Temple awards top scholarship to bencher’s daughter
Exclusive: £22,000 BPTC prize goes to student with very close family connection to Inn
Morning round-up: Tuesday 29 September
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Daily Express forced to make huge correction to ‘people who benefit from human rights’ story
Do they just make this stuff up?
Solicitor who had SIX KIDS while at Slaughter and May — and made partner — reveals ‘best decision’: to quit law
Laura Carstensen, who had three kids in the first four years of career, speaks publicly about "structural sexism"
Bar Council chief and Dechert’s Miriam González-Durántez latest to back Proudman feminist movement
LinkedIn row barrister now has support of Nick Clegg's City lawyer wife and a less enthusiastic Alistair MacDonald QC
US firm that pays London newly qualified lawyers £101k boosts trainee intake by 20%
Latham & Watkins now offering more training contracts than many mid-tier City outfits
Morning round-up: Monday 28 September
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Lord Harley to face Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal
"Harry Potter" lawyer will have initial case management hearing in early November
Legal aid lawyer’s Facebook status about feeding client’s cat goes viral
Crumbling justice system sees solicitor forced to take on pet-sitting duties
Former Freshfields junior lawyer, 31, shot dead in Berlin
Luke Holland, who was with magic circle firm until 2013, killed outside nightclub
Morning round-up: Friday 25 September
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
At last, Lord Sumption has a friend! Top female QC comes out in support of under-fire Supreme Court judge
Sarah Forshaw QC backs Sumption over women judges comments; as shadow Lord Chancellor is latest to put boot in
The University of Law seems to think the former Soviet Union still exists
Looking to study the LPC? Still view yourself as a citizen of a dissolved communist superstate? Then ULaw has you covered
Atkin Chambers raises pupillage award to £72,500 — the highest at the bar by far
Commercial set ups pupil money by 20%
Now it’s Proudman versus Sumption: LinkedIn row barrister slams Supreme Court judge
27-year old is seizing new role is unofficial spokesperson for nation's female lawyers