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The best from below the line
BLP retains 71% of its trainees while Clifford Chance keeps 96%
Contrasting retention fortunes between mid-tier and aristocrats
Meek surrender or clever tactic? No one quite knows as lawyers suspend 52 day legal aid strike
Court boycott called off as "gesture of goodwill"
The Judge Rules: Accelerated courses — students need to beware
How much sympathy should we feel for the seven students whose firms dropped training contract offers after they failed BPP’s speedy-LPC?
Solicitor struck off after fiddling train fares to pay LPC debts
Tribunal accepted young lawyer was under huge post-education financial pressure -- but fraud is fraud
Morning round-up: Friday 21 August
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
City firms fall over themselves to trumpet benefits of working one day-a-week from home
'Agile working' is the latest corporate law trend
Personal injury solicitor storms off football pitch to head-butt supporter
Regulator to investigate lawyer’s park footie behaviour after he pleaded guilty to GBH
Pictures emerge of proposed Lincoln’s Inn ‘education bunker’
But no official comment on price tag or suggestions that inns are getting back into vocational training game
Morning round-up: Thursday 20 August
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Working class hero leads strike against government legal aid cuts from the tee
Picket line or round of golf? Picket line or round of golf? That’ll be a round of golf, then …
Solicitors’ profession keeps growing like Topsy — up 18% over five years
But with training contracts gradually evaporating and government reforms of legal aid system kicking in, could the party be over?
Mayer Brown reveals 55% autumn newly qualified lawyer retention rate
Global giant will keep six of its 11 September qualifying cohort, with a further lawyer remaining on temporary contract
Aspiring barrister and ex-Herbert Smith Freehills paralegal killed in family home
The 31-year-old woman was found dead at a property in northwest London at the end of last week
University of Law extends money back guarantee to out-of-work GDL students
Fee rebate scheme could see ULaw paying out more to students who fail to bag jobs after graduating
Morning round-up: Wednesday 19 August
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Law student was Briton killed in Bangkok terror attack
Vivian Chan was doing a law degree at BPP University in London
BPP big wigs silent as failed students are reported sacked from training contracts
Accelerated course disaster for seven wannabes -- but law school won’t comment
Law student summers: expectations vs reality
The time has come to pause and reflect on the past few months
Bar students are getting even worse at ethics, official report shows
If four-year trend continues, more than half of those on the BPTC are likely to fail ethics module at first go next year
Morning round-up: Tuesday 18 August
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts