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Herbert Smith Freehills keeps 34 out of 37 trainees
Elite City outfit posts 92% retention rate
Legal charity offers seven social welfare training contracts for second year running
Application process kicks off next week for positions across the UK
Morning round-up: Friday 31 July
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Rubbish press release: Big data creates a big row
Pompous claims that Moneyball-style analytics can unearth the best litigators leads to Twitter ruck
Judicial girl power a long way off, but women make gains on bench
Official figures show more than half of young judges are female
Last-minute training contract applications are a waste of time
Thinking of burning the midnight oil to make a bid for City glory? Don’t, advise top law firm specialists
Toddler who is obsessed by personal injury lawyer has most bizarre birthday party ever
Lawyer overcomes cartoon characters in battle for kid's affection
Two silks and a regional law firm have best High Court ‘win rates’, says survey
Boffins invoke artificial intelligence to determine which are the best litigation horses to back
Morning round-up: Thursday 30 July
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
The mystery of the vertically-challenged barristers
Bar Council tweet highlights a new set of Hobbit-sized lawyers
Revised trainee solicitor hiring code is here; market braces for chaos
Law firm pressure forces junior lawyers group to drop application deadline guidance
‘My Family’ actor with drugs record bids to be human rights barrister
Gabriel Thomson was busted for coke seven years ago, but that's not stopping him from going for philosophy first and then the GDL
CMS finally brings newly-qualified lawyer pay back to 2008 levels with £3k rise
City firm ups junior lawyer pay to £66k
Full transcript of judge’s luggage rant at British Airways lawyers emerges
What appears to be court stenographer’s note appears online
Morning round-up: Wednesday 29 July
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Legal Cheek hit with take-down notice over barrister and sheep picture
Marketing managers -- donchya just love ‘em. Especially po-faced examples in the legal profession
Trowers & Hamlins posts poor autumn retention rate of 71% for qualifying lawyers
Erratic retention performance continues amid concerns swirling around firm’s profits and financial health
#LawyerSchmovies: 13 top movie titles improved by references to the law
The latest social media craze is all about law and films
Top barrister and London mayor allegedly flout cycling laws together
Lawyer accepting a dangerous midnight “backie” last week also happens to be BoJo’s wife
Morning round-up: Tuesday 28 July
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Called to the baa …
Shaun the Sheep is now a member of England's esteemed judiciary