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Morning round-up: Tuesday 20 October
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Pinsent Masons conducts ‘thorough review’ after CV workshop students start Square Mile knife brawl
Did the students bring dangerous weapons into City law firm?
Scrap BPTC in favour of two year pupillage, urges bar chief
Top crime QC says bar course only benefits law schools and London's landlords
Nottingham Trent law student jailed for naked photos Snapchat blackmail
First year's legal career hopes hanging by a thread
Lord Neuberger: Top judges should visit non-traditional unis and encourage students to apply for training contracts
Exclusive: Head of Supreme Court wants to see judiciary out on campus but is against imposing diversity quotas
Morning round-up: Monday 19 October
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Pro-Human Rights Act posters appear all over the Tube after barristers raise £50k to ‘Act for the Act’
Lawyers are getting the hang of crowdfunding
Wannabe barrister wins £20k damages from his uni over false ‘criminal behaviour’ claim
Damages obtained by Geoffrey Robertson QC working pro bono should cover the cost of the BPTC nicely
DLA Piper silent on rumours that partner who described women as ‘gash’ is under investigation by the SRA
Firm's refusal to comment on matter gives credence to gossip
Key litigant in person charity sees incredible 900% rise in clients helped
Personal Support Unit assisted 5,000 clients in 2008 -- now number is a terrifying 50,000
Morning round-up: Friday 16 October
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Protesting Palestinian lawyer becomes unlikely star of Reddit Photoshop battle
Geeks try to bring some light relief to the escalating conflict in the Middle East
18% of lawyers would quit their job to go on The Apprentice
Figure is down from 25% in 2011
The best advocates are ‘simply born that way’, claims ex-Court of Appeal judge on his new blog
Third rate barristers can become second rate -- but not great, says Sir Henry Brooke
Morning round-up: Thursday 15 October
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Hogan Lovells denies joining movement to allocate work blindly to junior lawyers
But the firm has made contact with the guru attempting to revolutionise working patterns at rivals
Suing your 12 year-old nephew theoretically possible in England — but no lawyer would take case on
US aunt v nephew birthday hug case would require a litigant-in-person on these shores … or an English Saul Goodman
A major law firm has been dramatically shut down by the Solicitors Regulation Authority
Move comes after Legal Aid Agency referred Blavo & Co to the police
No more 85ft Helter Skelter rides: Law firm with coolest office in Britain moves on
Sheffield IP solicitors bid farewell to office with three storey high spiral slide
Morning round-up: Wednesday 14 October
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
The Charlotte Proudman generation backs quotas, but Lord Justice Leveson says they are ‘demeaning’
Top judge wades into gender diversity row