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Herbert Smith Freehills continues impressive retention showing to keep 94% of its qualifying trainees
Elite firm retains 33 of its 35 spring 2016 qualifiers
Drink driving solicitors should be struck off/slapped on wrist/bought a drink, discovers SRA in Facebook video experiment
Solicitors Regulation Authority goes social meeja-ing
Research shows that top City law firms hardly recruit any trainees from their paralegals
But lots of pretty good other firms do
Selfie taking solicitor is the best thing on Instagram right now
Law firm marketing departments taken note, this is how you should use social media
London College of Fashion unveils first of its kind law course
University of the Arts moves into legal education
Morning round-up: Wednesday 20 January
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Law grad vacancies down 16% since 2005 while accountancy places soar by 68%
Number-crunchers in demand but law still pays more
Banning things is ‘curse of our age’
Brits seem to want to ban everything nowadays
US firm that doesn’t offer TCs ups NQ pay to £99k in bid to net London’s best qualifying trainees
Quinn Emanuel puts money saved on training contracts towards associate pay
Junior lawyers open up about stress
Challenges of the job becoming less of a taboo
12 City law firms feature in LGBT top 100 employer list
Once again Simmons & Simmons named "star performer"
Morning round up: Tuesday 19 January
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Dentons channels unclaimed client money to fund new LLB scholarship that pays undergrads £20k each
Megafirm joins Hogan Lovells in sponsoring LLB students
We spoke to a London human rights lawyer about China locking up human rights lawyers
He describes the arrests as “obviously unjustified”
Charlotte Proudman leaves Twitter after relentless abuse from trolls
Young sexism row barrister deactivates account
Pupillage Gateway will be moved to January from 2017
After previous false start the Bar Council finally gives date change the go-ahead
Morning round-up: Monday 18 January
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Computer science student, 19, says legal profession should be ‘very scared’ of his new ‘robot lawyer’
London whizz kid bids to revolutionise law industry
‘Making a Murderer’: could we see an English version?
Don’t hold your breath, says top criminal barrister
Hill Dickinson partner fined £1,000 by SRA over ‘domestic incident’
City lawyer reaches "settlement agreement" with regulator to avoid disciplinary tribunal
Research: Non-legal employers favour law graduates over all other applicants
They work harder and have an "aptitude for learning"